Fury at Paxo over old age mag insults

JEREMY Paxman has been accused of insulting the elderly after saying old age meant being on “the verge of incontinence and idiocy”.

The 66-year-old University Challenge presenter was ranting about the Mature Times, a free publication aimed at people over 50.

And he labelled publishers ‘’cheeky bastards’’ for putting him in the “mature” bracket.

In the Financial Times, he wrote: “We all know that ‘mature’ means on the verge of incontinence, idiocy and peevish valetudinarianism [being morbidly concerned with ill health].

“They might as well have named it the ‘Surgical Stocking Sentinel’.”

But publisher Andrew Silk said Paxman had insulted the UK’s 21 million over-50s, and accused him of turning into “Jeremy Clarkson – without the charisma”.