Annabel Giles hits back at Daily Mail tattle about 32-year-old news
TV and radio presenter Annabel Giles has told the Daily Mail to ‘fuck off’ after it published a gossip column about herself and former Lib Dem leader Charles Kennedy, just days after his early death aged 55.
The paper’s slime chief Sebastian Shakespeare ran a piece yesterday about the former model having dated Kennedy once in the 1980s.
But Ms Giles, who wrote a best-selling novel for Penguin in 2001 and appears on Channel 5’s The Wright Stuff, hit back at the paper on Twitter.
Responding to the piece, titled ‘Annabel: My tryst with sad Charles’ and Tweeted by a Mail reporter, she said:
.@richardaeden You are a pathetic wanker. Perhaps you’d like to put that in your ‘newspaper’? Oh, and FUCK OFF. @MailOnline
— Annabel Giles (@Annabel_Giles) June 9, 2015
Ms Giles received support from people on Twitter:
@Annabel_Giles @richardaeden @MailOnline one date 32 years ago? Wow, hold the front page. How low can they sink? — Effel (@flcro) June 9, 2015
@richardaeden @Annabel_Giles @MailOnline Charles Kennedy has been dead a matter of day’s & the Mail are sinking to another low #Disgrace
— Heather Williams (@hop90) June 9, 2015
She added:
.@MargaretRHallid @iExtract @richardaeden @MailOnline Surely calling it a ‘news’paper defies the Trades Description Act? — Annabel Giles (@Annabel_Giles) June 9, 2015
Ms Giles also took a swipe at the Mail reporter’s identifying her primarily as musician Midge Ure’s ex-wife:
I married a famous man 30 years ago and have done nothing of note or interest since. https://t.co/hCGfT63Fmm
— Annabel Giles (@Annabel_Giles) June 9, 2015
Adam Barnett is a staff writer at Left Foot Forward. Follow MediaWatch on Twitter
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