"The actor and comic Stephen Fry is considered by some to be a national treasure who adds greatly to the gaiety of the nation," The Daily Mail's fruitcake fumes in her column today.Obviously Mr Fry's real offence is his "gaiety", but do go on Melanie...
"It’s a role to which he self-consciously plays up as raconteur, wit and genial host for any TV occasion. But why, then, does he feel compelled so egregiously to abuse this privileged position?
"At the weekend, a preview was published of a self-regarding interview to be transmitted on TV in June in which Fry talks about the fact that he was addicted to cocaine for a period of 15 years.
"Did he express any concern or remorse about this addiction, any insight into the harm it may have done to his health or career — or indeed, to anyone else in his life? No, there was not one syllable of regret..."
Not so much as a "Soz"? What a bastard!
Phillips continues seemingly without pausing for breath - or indeed thought;
"If this is what Fry thinks passes for wit, then the drugs he has taken have clearly affected more of his brain than might be thought."
Phillips is on very shaky ground here, as the column dutifully turns into one of her hilariously incoherent rants that then goes on to take badly aimed swipes at Kate Moss, John Galliano, Charlie Sheen and Oliver Stone.
What on earth could Melanie Phillips be on?
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