Carol Vorderman has fired off one other salvo in her feud with Johnny Mercer’s spouse by accusing her of ‘harassment’.
The previous Countdown presenter, 62, has been at battle with Felicity Cornelius-Mercer, 43, and the veterans’ minister, 41, since final week, and took issues up a notch this afternoon by sharing a reel exhibiting a sequence of tweets she had despatched her.
She wrote: ‘I have been harassed by Johnny Mercer’s spouse for months. That is from simply in the future in April + far more abuse elsewhere. I did not reply in any respect. Till he mocked navy utilizing foodbanks. She’s paid c£45k on MP bills (+200% pay rise) to do that?’
In response, Mrs Cornelius-Mercer stated she had been tagging Ms Vorderman, 62, in abusive tweets despatched to her husband to point out how she had stirred up ‘terrible visitors’ by ‘telling followers to focus on MPs’.
She added: ‘Be happy to cease the reel and browse them. These hateful feedback are despatched to us as a direct results of @carolvorders drivel. I’ve solely ever reacted to her garbage about hating all Tories, which has been happening lengthy earlier than I acquired concerned.’
Carol Vorderman immediately accused Johnny Mercer’s spouse of ‘harassing’ her on Twitter
In response, Mrs Cornelius-Mercer stated she had been tagging Ms Vorderman, 62, in abusive tweets despatched to her husband to point out how she had stirred up ‘terrible visitors’
The previous Countdown presenter has been at battle with Felicity Cornelius-Mercer and his spouse since final week
Felicity Cornelius-Mercer works as Principal Secretary in her husband’s parliamentary workplace
The weird feud started early final week when Mrs Cornelius-Mercer accused Ms Vorderman of being a ‘movie star assault canine’ who was ‘inciting individuals to hate all Tories’.
Yesterday, the row even made it into the Home of Commons when a Conservative MP accused Ms Vorderman of being a ‘snob’ after she criticised the Mercers for not going to college.
Mr Mercer was educated at £10,000-a-year Eastbourne Faculty and served within the British Military whereas his spouse labored as a crewing supervisor for MK Airways.
She is now Principal Secretary in her husband’s workplace – receiving a wage of between £40,000 to £49,000, in line with the newest filings.
A tweet by Ms Vorderman on July 8 and referencing the married couple stated: ‘Not a level in sight despite costly non-public schooling! So who’d make use of them?’
The message was adopted with a shrugging emoji.
Criticising the feedback in a debate yesterday, Tory MP Siobhan Baillie stated the TV star eats ‘political hate for breakfast to get social media hits’.
Mr Mercer has beforehand described Vorderman as a ‘deeply disagreeable individual’, whereas his spouse has made thinly-veiled jibes about her look.
Ms Baillie, Conservative MP for Stroud, weighed in throughout an adjournment debate within the Home of Commons, the place she was making the case for the way and why entry to on-the-job coaching must be improved.
A tweet by Ms Vorderman on July 8 and referencing the married couple stated: ‘Not a level in sight despite costly non-public schooling! So who’d make use of them?’
She stated: ‘Snobbery about additional schooling and no diploma sadly continues to today. You simply have to have a look at Carol Vorderman’s assault on (Tory minister Johnny Mercer) and his spouse.’
After referencing Ms Vorderman’s tweet about Mr Mercer’s schooling, she stated: ‘That is the newest instance of nonsense.
‘Dismissing a minister who works tirelessly for the armed forces and veterans for not having gone to college is unhealthy sufficient, however intentionally being condescending concerning the lives of thousands and thousands of people that didn’t go to college is completely unforgivable.
‘I used to admire Carol Vorderman an terrible lot earlier than she determined to eat a lot political hate for breakfast to get social media hits. Now, sadly, I simply really feel sorry for her.’
It follows Tory assistant whip Jacob Younger taking to the social media platform on Monday and calling Ms Vorderman a ‘horrible little snob’.
Previous to the adjournment debate on Monday, Ms Vorderman tweeted that it was ‘a joke’ to name her an schooling snob.
On Friday final week, Mrs Cornelius-Mercer appeared to purpose a jibe at Ms Vorderman when she joked about present process cosmetic surgery
The digitally-altered picture was posted on Twitter. Mrs Cornelius- Mercer’s husband has confronted criticism over his function in Rishi Sunak’s authorities
She stated: ‘They can not consider the rest to have a go at…. HOWEVER, I will let my document in schooling do the speaking (together with) serving to 500,000 kids with their maths throughout lockdown…giving bursaries for younger individuals and colleges with deprived backgrounds like mine….serving to Blunkett introduce the Numeracy Hour….governor of internal metropolis college……schooling books for many years…..recognised STEM Ambassador….I may go on.
‘All the time a believer in encouraging younger individuals to attain their greatest, in whichever means that comes round, to be sturdy and completely happy and assured. The rest being espoused is offensive, focused, predictable Proper Wing nonsense. PS Tories….this assault will not work. It simply makes us extra decided.’
On Friday final week, Mrs Cornelius-Mercer appeared to purpose a jibe at Ms Vorderman when she joked about present process cosmetic surgery.
Her tongue in cheek comment got here after repeated hypothesis that former Countdown star Vorderman has gone underneath the knife, rumours the 62 12 months outdated has persistently denied.
Vorderman has beforehand put her youthful look and toned determine all the way down to intermittent fasting and common exercises.
Final 12 months, she documented her go to to an unique juice retreat in Portugal on Instagram, the place 15 of her 18 days had been spent consuming simply juice.
Responding to a Twitter consumer who has superimposed Mr Bean actor Rowan Atkinson’s face onto hers, Mrs Cornelius-Mercer replied: ‘I had a stunning vacation in Turkey final week.
‘Took benefit of a budget beauty surgical procedure to offer my face a brand new lease of life. Acquired to maintain up with all these celebs doing it they usually do appear so eager on us Mercer’s (sic)’
Final week, certified lifeguard Mrs Cornelius-Mercer slammed Vorderman for ‘inciting individuals to hate all Tories’, and described her as a ‘movie star assault canine’ who drives her ‘up the fucking wall’.
However maths skilled Vorderman hit again with a tweet, describing Felicity, 43, and Johnny, 41, because the ‘Neil and Christine Hamilton of immediately’.
Mrs Cornelius-Mercer first got here to wider public consideration in 2018 when her husband accused a Twitter consumer of suggesting his spouse was a prostitute within the remark part of a neighborhood paper web site.
She described former prime minister Liz Truss as an ‘imbecile’ for beforehand sacking her ex-army Plymouth MP husband from authorities.