Former Homes Under The Hammer presenter Lucy Alexander came under fire on Sunday for swearing in a tweet.
Yep, really.
The 48-year-old television personality, who announced she was quitting the BBC daytime series in 2016, was caught up in a heated discussion when she expressed her delight that Ricky Gervais had given her some love on social media.
Announcing the news to her 24,100 Twitter followers, she wrote: ‘After my shite week.. @rickygervais has only gone and ‘liked’ TWO of my tweets today! #daymade.’ (sic).
But one follower, Scott, wasn’t too impressed and tutted her for her language, causing Soccer AM host Helen Chamberlain to leap to Lucy’s defense, snapping: ‘For s***e? Really?’
Lucy then commented that she doesn’t often use rude language, before Helen pointed out: ‘Lucy, do you ever notice it’s never other women who tell you to mind your language?’
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The troll was then quick to respond, asking the Soccer AM presenter not to assume their gender, which led Helen to clap back: ‘Do you get as annoyed with your male friends for swearing?’
Scott later scorned Helen for making his ‘throw-away, lighthearted’ comment into a ‘big deal’ putting an end to the exchange.
Their Twitter discussion comes just one day after The Chase’s Anne Hegerty took down I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! co star Emily Atack’s troll down in the best way possible… by calling him a ‘c**t.’
Lucy quit BBC property show Homes Under The Hammer after 13 years, telling her fans at the time: ‘It’s with s huge heavy heart I’m stepping down, it’s not the outcome I wanted but to pursue other work and a commercial deal I had to leave.
‘I will miss my TV husband @TVMartinRoberts hugely we have had 13 happy years together! time to move on though.’
Homes Under The Hammer continues Tuesday at 10am on BBC One.
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