Lady Colin’s foul-mouthed attack on Paul McCartney
LADy Colin Campbell’s appearance on I’m A Celebrity . . . is unlikely to be forgotten, not least by her fellow contestants.
Among the objects of her wrath were Duncan Bannatyne (‘a complete pussy’, in Lady Colin’s opinion), TV presenter yvette Fielding (‘ghastly . . . dreadful woman’) and Spandau Ballet singer Tony Hadley (‘a chippy oik with a mouth of diarrhoea’).
So they may be relieved to hear that Lady Colin has alighted on another target — Sir Paul McCartney, who, she declares is ‘an a***hole’.
It is hard to know what The Beatles legend has done to give offence to Lady Colin, who explained her appearance in the jungle as ‘whoring for Goring’ — a reference to her need for money to restore dilapidated Castle Goring in West Sussex, which she bought for £700,000 in 2013.
But it seems probable it’s his existence she finds distasteful, especially now that she is installed at the castle — built in 1797 by the family of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley — and is little more than 60 miles from Sir Paul’s Sussex residence.
Candidly admitting she ‘ doesn’t know anything about pop music’, Lady Colin, who back in the Seventies was married for a few months to the 11th Duke of Argyll’s younger brother Lord Colin Campbell, alleges that Sir Paul is ‘so chippy’ and adds: ‘I can’t bear the way his children like Stella McCartney describe themselves as “rock aristocracy”.’
Lady Colin’s former husband won’t be surprised by her latest outburst. Last year he branded her ‘a crushing snob and a complete fake. She keeps claiming to be related to the Royal Family through me. How does that work? I am not related to the Queen, not at all.’
Let’s hope Lady Colin finds her other Sussex ‘neighbours’ more palatable: Dame Maggie Smith or Roger Daltrey of The Who, one of whose hits was I’m A Boy.
Lady Colin was brought up as a boy despite being a girl, owing to a genital deformity, rectified when she was 21.