Rapper Tinie Tempah has hit out at his Channel 4 colleague Kirstie Allsopp regarding her recent comments about young people and the housing market.
The Location, Location, Location presenter said that if young people want to get on the property ladder then they should give up luxuries such as Netflix subscriptions and take-away coffees.
The 50-year-old bought her first house at 21 years old and has recently reminisced on that time: “When I bought my first property, going abroad, the EasyJet, coffee, gym, Netflix lifestyle didn’t exist.”
“I used to walk to work with a sandwich. And on payday I’d go for a pizza, and to a movie, and to buy a lipstick,” she recalled.
Chart-topping rapper Tinie Tempah had his own thoughts on Kirstie’s comments and told Radio Times: “I don’t know what kind of background you’d have to come from to say something like that, but it’s always some ivory tower.”
He recalled that his cousin had recently enquired about buying a council house and was quoted a whopping £700,000
“I’m a council estate kid and if you look at all the factors facing us, this is the hardest time ever. I had to learn that hearing you next-door neighbour get stabbed isn’t normal,” he added.
However, Kirstie has claimed that she was “misquoted” and took to social media to prove her point.
She wrote on Twitter that the original story has been “removed” as the comments “were never said” and asked “publications that repeated the false statement could do the same.”
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The television star reassured fans that publications “removed all references to this statement in their online additions.”
Allsopp continued the Twitter thread with a string of tweets saying that the “unaffordable nature” of houses in the UK is something which has “concerned her for a long time”, that the “impact on society as a whole is very serious” and that the misquotation had “struck” at her 22 years of work.
She ended by thanking the people who have supported her throughout this situation and that she hopes others will “draw a line” under the incident.
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