A BBC crew came over all prudish when they spotted a bare nipple on a 19th-century painting, the Daily Mail reports. The team filming the antiques programme Flog It! asked for the offending picture, an oil painting showing the Greek goddess Ariadne holding a goblet of wine with her left breast exposed, to be taken off the wall at Aldridge Auctioneers at Devizes, Wiltshire, in case it upset daytime viewers. 'It is absolutely ridiculous,' said auctioneer Alan Aldridge. 'This is a 19th-century neo-classical work of art. I can't imagine anyone getting offended over a naked female nipple these days. I tried putting a Post-It note over the offending part of her anatomy, but that wasn't good enough apparently.'
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