After the garrulous Rolf Harris slipped out several disparaging comments against Aboriginal people last week, he has since apologized for any offence he may have caused.
In an interview on an Australian radio station, Rolf Harris made remarks that he regretted using references to Aboriginal people in his hit song Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport.
He went on to say: "You sit at home watching the television and you think to yourself, 'Get up off your arse and clean up the streets your bloody self, and why would you expect somebody to come in and clean up your garbage, which you've dumped everywhere', but then you have to think to yourself that it's a different attitude to life."
The comments caused outrage among Indigenous people, with Dennis Eggington, from the Aboriginal Legal Service, saying the comments were insensitive and disparaging.
"Rolf Harris should stick to doing portraits of his beloved Queen, rather than painting indigenous Australia with his broad and bigoted brushstrokes,'' he said.
After the media kafuffle, a jetlagged and rather ill Harris came forward to make amends.
"I would just like to apologise for any offence that I've caused." He said.
"It's all a matter of feeling really rough and having somebody jump onto me for a quote about something or other.”
"I quite honestly should have kept my mouth shut, and gritted my teeth and not said anything. I would just like to apologise for causing offence to anybody."