Thursday, 9 July 2009

Jamie Oliver in dyslexia row on Twitter

TV chef takes offence to spelling comment

Jamie Oliver has three daughters with his wife Jools

Jamie Oliver branded one of his Twitter followers an ‘idiot’ after they criticised his spelling.

A poster calling himself Funditfrog pointed out four mistakes in one of the chef's tweets on the micro-blogging site.

‘Not being funny fella but 4 spelling mistakes?’ they wrote. ‘You're influencing a generation of kids, you owe it them to be correct. Agree?’

But an angry Jamie, 33, hit back saying: 'Get lost you idiot im dislexic and i cant spell so stick that in your pipe and smoke it!!! its better than being smug [sic],’

Funditfrog has since replied: 'Who'd have thought a little friendly banter on your part would be so misinterpreted by the press? Take care buddy’.