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“IT’S 7.30AM. I’VE JUST FINISHED DEER STALKING…”
As promised a while back, here’s the transcript of my “explosive” interview with celebrity chef, rhetorical question fetishist and all-round pompous arsehole Marco Pierre White, published in the Irish Times yesterday. Since I filed copy, he’s been dumped from his reality show in the US. To be honest, it couldn’t have happened to a nicer fellow… Read this article here.
April 5th, 2009.
April 5th, 2009 at 11:39 am
Oh my god, what a dick!
April 6th, 2009 at 10:58 am
So did you ever get that free dinner?
April 6th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
No, I decided best not to Graham.
April 6th, 2009 at 10:31 pm
“Retorical question fetishist”…huh?
April 6th, 2009 at 11:30 pm
He speaks almost entirely in rhetorical questions, which he uses as a device to intimidate whoever he’s talking to. (i.e. “My name is Marco Pierre White, yes or no? I am a pompous, self-important arsehole, yes or no? Do I or do I not have a poncey haircut, yes or no?” etc. etc.) I edited 90% of them out of the transcript because it would have made the copy unreadable.