Carol Vorderman has hit back at Jeremy Clarkson after the former Top Gear presenter described her as “awfully shouty”. In his column in the Sun on Saturday, Clarkson wrote a piece entitled ‘Me thinks Carol doth protest too much’.
Welsh TV and radio personality Vorderman regularly used her socal media platform - she has over 730,000 Twitter followers - to air her views and opinions on a range of issues including social and political matters. You can get the latest WalesOnline newsletters e-mailed to you directly for free by signing up here.
This week she spoke about the needs of menopausal women during a meeting of the Women and Equalities Select Committee, and was highly critical of the Minister for Women’s Health, Maria Caulfield. She also regularly hits out at the Conservative government and said of former health minister Matt Hancock that the 'han' was silent.
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In Clarkson’s column, he wrote: “In recent weeks, Carol Vorderman seems to have re-invented herself as a sort of anti-Tory, anti-sleeze warrior”.
He continued: “Having not got her way in a debate about the menopause this week, she said she had been ‘absolutely disgusted’ by the attitude of two lady MPs. That’s a bit strong, because if you’re “absolutely disgusted” by someone who disagrees with you about the menopause, then how do you describe your feelings towards a Russian soldier who’s just lobbed a hand grenade into a school? Surely, that would be ‘absolutely disgusting. Whereas someone who doesn’t share your view in a debate is mildly irritating."
Vorderman read the article and hit back at Clarkson on Sunday morning, accusing him of “having a go at a woman”. She tweeted in response to the article: “Well well. The known defender of women’s rights, Jeremy Clarkson, has a go at a woman again. Jeremy love, if I am disgusted at MPs fibbing & not turning up as they are meant to do, then I’ll be ‘disgusted’.
She then referred to the photograph of her that was used in Clarkson’s Sun column by saying: “Glad you used a nice photo tho or I might have been ‘mildly irritated’."
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