Successfully sued for terming Steven Berkoff “hideously ugly” in 1996, Julie Burchill claims she’d “rather be honest and offend people than lie”. Bristol born and the daughter of a Communist, Burchill believes chavs are “better looking” than middle class people and bizarrely once remarked: “I admire the Jews as a people, but I’m not some sad sack who goes around sucking up to people because they are Jews”. Curiously this twice married, one-time lesbian previously stated that “Israel is the only country I would f***ing die for”.
Two stories to keep beside you
Constance Briscoe
The author of Ugly and Beyond Ugly, Clapham based Constance Briscoe is nothing but a shameless disgrace.
Miriam O’Reilly
This Irish writer, journalist and presenter describes herself as having “fought ageism at the BBC and won”. Miriam O’Reilly is best known as a BBC Countryfile presenter but successfully sued the Corporation after being dropped in 2009. She subsequently returned to front the Crimewatch Roadshow with Rav Wilding before attempting and failing to become a […]
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She has a vile tongue.
And she know how to use it.
Her FB blogs give me stuff to ponder on & a regular laugh!
I hope you “laugh at her” and not “laugh with her”. She has a vile tongue and I am glad my good friend Berkoff beat her.
Matthew; you are a ‘one’; you and your views
Re: “Hideously ugly”, why is this repellant fat bitch/blob leering at us from the Steeple Times anyway……?!