Country singer, The Voice judge and Gwen Stefani's boyfriend Blake Shelton has issued an apology of sorts for a number of old tweets deemed to be homophobic.

Dug up by @MusicFactsTea, Shelton's tweets are relatively harmless compared with the likes of Kevin Swanson and the recently god-baited Tony Perkins.

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In June 2010, Shelton allegedly tweeted: “Grown men who wear Chuck Taylor's may as well write on their fore head ‘Cucumbers turn me on!!!'”

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Loved everyone's responses but yours is my fave & just what I would have liked to say. Thanks for saying it so perfectly 😘

— Back to Sadie ✨ (@fureyse1) August 17, 2016

The following year Shelton took it out on the coffee: “Standing in line at a coffee shop in LA talking with the man in front of me,” he reportedly tweeted. “He orders a skinny caramel latte. I couldn't tell he was gay!!!”

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Fairly harmless.

Other tweets certainly came across as racist and misogynistic. In one he labeled women as “bitches” and likened them to zoo animals. In one tweet, a quote was shared that likens “picking up bitches in a bar” to “hunting deer in a zoo.” In 2010, Shelton was dismayed that a shuttle bus driver couldn't “speak a F**KING word of English.”

Yesterday, he issued an apology on Twitter:

“Everyone knows comedy has been a major part of my career and it's always been out there for anyone to see. That said anyone that knows me also knows I have no tolerance for hate of any kind or form. Can my humor at times be inappropriate and immature? Yes. Hateful? Never. That said I deeply apologize to anybody who may have been offended.”