Comedian Stephen Fry Quits Twitter Because of Bad Joke

Comedian Stephen Fry hosted the British Academy of Film and Television Awards (BAFTA) and made a joke on award winning costume designer Jenny Beaven, saying "Only one of the great cinematic costume designers would come to an awards ceremony dressed as a bag lady".

That sparked people on Twitter to accuse Fry of being a misogynist. Fry then deleted his twitter account and said this on his website: "Oh goodness, what fun twitter was in the early days, a secret bathing-pool in a magical glade in an enchanted forest. It was glorious 'to turn as swimmers into cleanness leaping.' We frolicked and water-bombed and sometimes, in the moonlight, skinny-dipped. We chattered and laughed and put the world to rights and shared thoughts sacred, silly and profane. But now the pool is stagnant. It is frothy with scum, clogged with weeds and littered with broken glass, sharp rocks and slimy rubbish. If you don't watch yourself, with every move you'll end up being gashed, broken, bruised or contused. Even if you negotiate the sharp rocks you'll soon feel that too many people have peed in the pool for you to want to swim there any more. The fun is over."

Costume Designer, Jenna Beaven said, "Yes we are friends, and I am absolutely not upset. But I don't want to talk any further because if I talk about it it will just create more fuss".

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