I’m a pub landlord and was horrified by the cheeky comment my parrot made to female customers

A PUB landlord was left red-faced after his cheeky parrot started squawking: “Show us your knickers.”

Richard Hammond — who pulls pints with Kermit perched on his shoulder — said shocked female punters thought it was him asking.

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Richard Hammond’s parrot asked a female punter to ”Show us your knickers’[/caption]

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Richard suspects mischievous regulars at the Queen’s Head secretly taught Kermit the saucy phrase[/caption]

The former bricklayer, 63, told The Sun: “Customers hadn’t seen him at first and thought it was me and gave me a very dirty look.

“He chats away and comes out with all the classics, ‘Who’s a pretty boy?’, ‘Kiss a mummy’, ‘Hello’, ‘You alright mate?’.

“But somebody has taught him, ‘Show us your knickers’. It’s a bit of a giggle.”

Richard suspects mischievous regulars at the Queen’s Head in Ampthill, Beds, secretly taught Kermit the saucy phrase.

He inherited the 28-year-old yellow, green and white Senegalese parrot last year.

Richard, who took over the pub 13 years ago, said: “The customers absolutely love him to bits.”

But he admitted: “He’s not very friendly.

“They (parrots) tend to adopt one person as their minder and he has adopted me.”