{"id":100910,"date":"2023-11-15T22:13:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T22:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebritycovernews.com\/?p=100910"},"modified":"2023-11-15T22:13:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T22:13:01","slug":"martin-lewis-issues-apology-after-terrible-choice-of-words-is-branded-clumsy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebritycovernews.com\/celebrities\/martin-lewis-issues-apology-after-terrible-choice-of-words-is-branded-clumsy\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Lewis issues apology after terrible choice of words is branded clumsy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Money-saving expert Martin Lewis made a blunder on his ITV show, using the phrase “adoptive children or your children”, while referring to Christmas-time expenses.<\/p>\n

He’d been giving tips on how to survive the festive season financially, via The Martin Lewis Money Show – and he took to Twitter (X) once he realised his choice of words had apparently left some offended.<\/p>\n

“Just realised in the heat of live show I said ‘adoptive children or your children’ – terrible phrasing, sorry,” the 51-year-old cringed.<\/p>\n

The multimillionaire finance expert, who has an 11-year-old daughter himself, named Sapphire, added: “Adopted children are of course your children.”<\/p>\n

Then he explained why he’d singled out adoptive kids in the first instance, writing: “Important tho to highlight many adopted children age 12 to 21’s parent may not know they have a Child Trust Fund poss worth \u00a31,000.” (sic).<\/p>\n

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He urged: “Do check on http:\/\/gov.uk to see if you can trace it (other parents who may’ve lost track of it can do the same too).”<\/p>\n

Martin was thanked by @SusanSHD in the comments, who exclaimed: “If it makes it clear that it’s not just birth children, as some would undoubtedly not know, that’s fine.”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, he was inundated with responses over the unfortunate word choice, with @Jillianwatt17 welcoming his apology and stating: “Words carry weight, thank you for being sensitive.”<\/p>\n

@boozyjude reassured him: “It was a slip of the tongue, you are forgiven, until you mentioned it I don\u2019t think anyone noticed.”<\/p>\n

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