Good Morning Britain panelist Narinder Kaur has faced a furious backlash after saying Kate Middleton has ‘aged so much’ as she returned to royal duties following cancer treatment.
The former Big Brother contestant made the offensive comment on X yesterday as she reposted an article about the Princess of Wales attending Remembrance Sunday commemorations at the Cenotaph.
The 51-year-old, who appears as a commentator on shows including GMB, GB News and Loose Women, wrote: ‘Genuine question – why has Kate aged so much? Isn’t she only 42? Is she a smoker? It’s the only explanation.’
Ms Kaur’s tweet provoked a storm of outrage, with other X users calling the comment ‘dreadful’ and ‘disgusting’.
At first she doubled down, replying to a tweet noting that Kate had been through cancer treatment by saying: ‘My brother had cancer… he didn’t age like that.’
The TV personality has since shared a video in which she admitted the tweet was ‘stupid’ before hitting out at trolls who had sent her ‘sexual, racist [and] violent abuse’.
She said: ‘I thought I’d do a quick video instead of tweet after tweet, because it becomes pretty ridiculous – as if it wasn’t ridiculous enough already.
‘I put out a stupid tweet. That wasn’t my intention, my intention was not to be malicious or nasty or anything.
‘I’m not like that, anybody who knows me. It was stupid to ask about the ageing. I’ve admitted that, I’ve put my hands up and apologised if it caused offence
‘The only people who were offended though, because many people on Twitter and social media have asked exactly what I’ve asked but did not receive the sexual, racial, violent abuse that I did from accounts with EDL flags, Union Jacks,
disgusting abuse.’
Ms Kaur said her brother ‘went through brutal treatment of chemo’ when he was suffering from cancer before his death and claimed she wouldn’t have made remarks about Kate’s appearance with regard to her cancer diagnosis.
In the same video, Ms Kaur went on to outrageously accused Kate of having ‘a lot of privilege’ for not having to work while she received treatment for cancer.
And, claiming that a lot of the comments she had received in response to her original tweet were about Meghan Markle, she added: ‘What’s Meghan got to do with it?’
The commentator accused her critics of ‘pitting Kate against Meghan’, adding: ‘You exposed your narrative. You exposed that what this was all about was I as a brown woman, an Indian, had the gall to criticise Kate’s appearance.
‘I’m not going anywhere. I’m not leaving the country. I’m gonna continue. You can keep cancelling me as much as you like, but you will not silence my voice just because I’m a brown woman, and it is that, and you will never convince me otherwise.’