I'm pretty sure most of you will remember the pop band
Texas who confusingly are from Glasgow, Scotland.
Nowadays their song "Summer Son" gets some airplay over here, but I think I'd choose "Say What You Want" as my favorite one.
The band's singer was of course Sharleen Spiteri.
Yesterday I came across an article at UK's premium source of quality journalism
The Sun -
I DON'T WANT A LOOK-ER Sharleen Spiteri’s daughter rushed to hospital after being hit by a car because she was star struck over Sam Smith .
It would seem Sharleen's daughter Misty Kyd crossed the street while staring at pop star Harry Styles - and got hit by a car. Luckily although the impact broke the car's windscreen her daughter just dislocated her shoulder.
“It was the day before I moved to Wales, and just before lockdown.
“She walked out of college and saw Sam Smith walking down the street and she was that busy staring at them that she walked out in front of a car.
She’s very lucky that she was ok. Although she dislocated her shoulder.”
“I ran from my house as soon as they called me.
They told me she was fine, and they were waiting on an ambulance, and I ran.
As soon as I got there, I saw the car outside school with a completely broken windscreen."
The interesting part comes in the next sentence which is left out by most other publications reporting the incident.
Here's the quote:
As soon as I walked in she was just sitting there, and I ran over asking, ‘Are you ok? Are you ok?’ And then I went, ‘Were you on that bloody phone?’
I could have killed her – she got a serious b******ing."
I am quite at a loss here. Maybe because I wrongly assume that any "*" actually represents a letter (it's The Sun , you know).
So neither "berating" or any connection with "butt-" seems to fit. And if it's a normal word why was it censoreD? Maybe some native speaker can clarify that for me
Meanwhile here's Misty who has started a model career:
