Comedian and presenter Sue Perkins has apologised after she retweeted a tweet which wrongly claimed a Nottinghamshire MP had been mocking NHS staff. The tweet depicted Bassetlaw's Conservative MP Brendan Clarke-Smith in underpants and its author Russ Jones, who has 254,000 followers, incorrectly claimed it was a face mask used to mock those suffering in the Covid pandemic.
The image, in fact, had been taken during a waxing fundraiser in 2011 where Mr Clarke-Smith had been raising money for local charities. One charity included the Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance.
Mr Jones' inaccurate tweet remains on Twitter with hundreds of retweets. One of these had been comedian and presenter Sue Perkins, who has written numerous popular books as well as co-presented The Great British Bake-Off.
