Another celebrity has earned the ire of the Isle of Man with his comments on the World Tin Bath Championships in Castletown.
Sunday Times food writer, AA Gill, sparked anger two years ago when he mocked the Island, its Celtic traditions and fairies.
And he’s now dropped himself in it again by mocking Castletown, its residents, and the races themselves, calling it 'an exhausting and life-draining day’, and ‘this is what television was supposed to inoculate us against’.
Jed Clayton of the Castletown Ale Drinker’s Society said he was sorry he hadn’t enjoyed the event – now in its 36th year – which has raised more than ?100,000 for local charities.
And he had this to say in response (audio file attached):
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