Restaurant critic and columnist Giles Coren just tweeted-and-deleted a rather unsavoury joke about Spectre star Léa Seydoux.
Posting the front cover of November’s Vogue, in which Coren’s interview with Seydoux features, his tweet read:
“In the new Vogue I suck up to Bond girl Lea Seydoux by saying Bond is sexist, while quietly hoping she might shag me.”
[Giles with his book, amusingly titled, given the circumstances. IMAGE: REX FEATURES]
There’s a laughable, but still rather disappointing irony in watching a bloke pretend to use feminism in a ploy to attract women…and still fall flat on his face.
[IMAGE: Giles Coren/Twitter]
Luckily, though, the internet’s response to Coren’s silliness was rather more heartening than it could have been.
Most were quick to dismiss his tweet as a bit of awkward sexual banter and others went further, to point out that the tweet actually forms part of a wider string of sexist and sometimes really just quite creepy commentary from the columnist.
[IMAGES: Twitter]
The backlash has since prompted Coren to replace his tweet with another milder, albeit sulkier comment:
Maybe the palpable disgust will teach him something, maybe it won’t, but he’s certainly lost a few readers today, that’s for sure.
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