The Daily Mail amuses me sometimes. Usually it irritates me beyond belief, but sometimes it’s so incredulous that I can’t help but find it funny.
Take this story, for example, which details some made-up anger about the BBC hiring ex-tennis player Martina Hingis as one of their celebs on the new series of Strictly Come Dancing (the forerunner of Dancing With The Stars in the US).
The Daily Mail and their handily available angry commentators Mediawatch UK are up in arms because Hingis was forced to quit tennis for a second time last year after a positive test for cocaine. She denies it, obviously, but the ITF still banned her for two years.
My issue isn’t with that.
It’s the way that another celeb in this year’s line-up is being given a free pass, and has been for the last few years by the media.
Scroll down to the bottom of the article and look at the group photo. See the guy on the left?
That’s ex-cricketer Phil Tufnell. He has a criminal conviction for assaulting his then wife. Not just an accusation or a rumour. A full on, court of law guilty judgment against him.
How the fuck is maybe using cocaine worse than assaulting someone?!?! The Daily Mail’s morals (as ever) are sorely misguided on this one.
