Like all of you, I’m sure, I’ve got accustomed to celebrities – particularly actors and comedians, but also pop stars and sporting luminaries – sharing their unsought opinions with the public. My eyes have gone grey from it, to the extent that the brows above them no longer so much as twitch when a celeb ‘drops’ some ‘content’ of this kind, unless it’s one of those very rare occasions when they don’t take the approved line. So I thought I was immune to such rubbish.
French has form for getting carried away
Enter Dawn French, who managed to induce in me a flinch response that I thought had atrophied in about 2002. The Vicar of Dibley star uploaded an extremely unpleasant video on social media, in which she adopted a wheedling babyish voice to cavil about the Hamas atrocities perpetrated on Israelis in October 2023; ‘but they did a bad thing’ she squeaks.
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