Emma Thompson made a joke about a county called the Isle of Wight in England being violently homophobic on the Late Late Show and it hasn't been well received by locals:
Oh, they stone homosexuals there? Nice, I think they are still allowed to flog them, which of course some of them enjoy. I think they are allowed to shoot Irish or Scottish people if they arrive on the island — it is still in the rules. They are allowed to torture people. It's lovely, you should go.Here's a local politicians response to her joke:
The island is a very diverse and welcoming place. Her claims are much ado about nothing and as outlandish as some of the fiction in the Harry Potter films she has been working on. If there was a Golden Globe award for Best Fictional Claims on a Chat Show, Emma Thompson would win it hands-down.
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Emma is confused. It was the Isle of Man (no joking) where being gay was still illegal until a very few years ago, well after the rest of UK. And where birching, being beaten with birch sticks, was still a punishment until barred by the European Community Law.
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