Ahead of the upcoming EU referendum, Julian Fellowes used an appearance on Question Time to put forward the case for Brexit, before giving an interview on the topic to the Mail on Sunday. Now, however, the Tory peer has decided to take a backseat after growing tired of famous people telling the public what to do.
Giving a talk at The Berkeley as part of London Book and Screen Week, the Downton Abbey writer says that when celebrities tell people what to think, he thinks they ought to ‘put a sock in it’:
‘I’m very much in favour of Brexit, I think it’s a great opportunity and I think if we miss it our children and grandchildren will wonder why.
But I don’t really want to be a kind of poster boy on it because I feel my audience is as much as Remain as Leave and I don’t like show business figures telling us what to think.
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