Naked Picture Appears on Sir Ian Botham's Twitter Timeline, Beefy Thanks Hacker

Sir Ian Botham got Twitter talking on Monday morning when a naked and graphic picture appeared on his timeline.

For obvious reasons we can't reprint the original, but here's a heavily censored version of it, for modesty's sake:

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Botham became a talking point on Twitter, unsurprisingly:

"

Saw the Botham pic. Praying for early onset dementia.

— CHRISunderscoreBRAIN (@Chris_Brain) August 18, 2014"

And later Botham—who may or may not have been the figure in the picture—took to Twitter to delete the picture and thank what he described as a "hacker" for creating so much interest in his account:

"

I would like to thank the hacker....I've just got 500 hits in 20mins !!

— Ian Botham (@BeefyBotham) August 18, 2014"

"

Make that 700 in 25 mins !!!

— Ian Botham (@BeefyBotham) August 18, 2014"

 [Twitter]