the_tags option

I’m currently using
<?php the_tags('','','') ?>
to display the tags from each post.

I need to exclude a couple the tags from being shown. So if an article had 10 tags, one called say ‘new’, I’d like to show the other 9 tags but not shows ‘new’.

Any help?

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