HBO Apologizes for George Bush 'Beheading' on GAME OF THRONES

HBO has issued an apology for using a prosthetic George W. Bush head as a prop for a scene depicting a beheading in their popular series GAME OF THRONES. Following severe backlash from Republican party leaders, the show's creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss expressed regret for their decision to use the image. It remains uncertain whether the cable network will edit out the scene for future rebroadcasts of the episode on both HBO and on-demand.  

HBO's statement reads:

We were deeply dismayed to see this and find it unacceptable, disrespectful and in very bad taste. We made this clear to the executive producers of the series who apologized immediately for this inadvertent careless mistake. We are sorry this happened and will have it removed from any future DVD production.

David Benioff and D.B. Weiss statement reads:

We use a lot of prosthetic body parts on the show: heads, arms, etc. We can’t afford to have these all made from scratch, especially in scenes where we need a lot of them, so we rent them in bulk. After the scene was already shot, someone pointed out that one of the heads looked like George W. Bush.

In the DVD commentary, we mentioned this, though we should not have. We meant no disrespect to the former President and apologize if anything we said or did suggested otherwise.