Perhaps, it is going to help somebody. I have managed to get it removed. Below is the extract from the code that worked for me:
if ( ! surfarama_categorized_blog() ) {
// This blog only has 1 category so we just need to worry about tags in the meta text
if ( ” != $tag_list ) {
$meta_text = __( ‘Tagged %2$s. <–! Bookmark the permalink –>.’, ‘surfarama’ );
} else {
$meta_text = __( ‘ ‘, ‘surfarama’ );
}