Did you have a good weekend?
Jeremy Irons is in trouble, or at least he is with Sunday Times columnist Camilla Long.
She wrote a vitriolic piece on him yesterday all because he gave a recent interview in which he expressed certain views about sexual harassment and his own sexuality and, particularly, what seemed to annoy Ms Long was Jeremy's assertion that:-
''If a man puts his hand on a woman's bottom, any woman worth her salt can deal with it. It's communication. Can't we be friendly?''
Now I've seen and much enjoyed lots of Jeremy's films, he's a great actor, he might be a bit opinionated lots of very successful people are, but I honestly don't think he meant his comment to be taken as approval for genuine sexual harassment. I think Ms Long has got some sort of hang up and she's taking it out on Jeremy, perhaps she doesn't get anybody touching her derriere, who knows.
Anyway I showed the article to my nearest and dearest and he said she just needed...well, I guess you can imagine what he said.
Sorry I can't link to the article because the grand Sunday Times require subscription these days and I object to that on principle.
Ronnie
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