Chris Bryant: Pants

Labour MP for Chris Bryant MP [sic] was in his usual self-deprecating form at a Spectator debate about the Leveson inquiry on Wednesday night, joking with the audience over his appearance in the tabloids in a photo taken of him from a gay dating site in his underpants. To fellow panellist Richard Littlejohn he had nothing but thanks. Littlejohn, so Bryant tells it, featured him in his Daily Mail column no fewer than "eight times" and had thoughtfully used that same "very charming photo" of him in his underwear. "It's great," Bryant joked, "it increased my majority in Rhondda Valley." Bryant said he hadn't made a single complaint about the photo in the nine years since it was published, nor about its repeated use. But there was one small thing that did upset him, he said, and that was the publication of his address. He explained that subsequent to this he had a phone call one night. The conversation went like this: "Hi, my name is Colin, and I'm very submissive and I'm outside your door." "Well fuck off then," said Bryant. To which the caller apparently replied: "I'm not that submissive." But there was a serious reason for his anecdote. Bryant had to call the police to get the intruder removed from outside his abode, and that is one of the reasons why he wants "a smidgeon" of regulation to establish the new press regulator. 

The Guardian, Media Monkey.

PS There's something in the above which means a certain gay magazine could get sued, see if you can spot it...