Slug slanderer Alan Titchmarsh has renewed his war against the loveable slimesters – comparing them to bed bugs.
The horticultural hero also confessed to lobbing the squidges over his neighbour’s fence. His neighbour is his PA and he insisted they have “an arrangement”.
The mollusc adversary dismissed our calls to Hug A Slug and the Royal Horticultural Society’s campaign to make pals with the garden visitors, saying: “I’ve had a little bit of beef with being told slugs are my friends.
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“It’s like saying to people that bed bugs and ticks are your friends.
“Don’t be ridiculous!”
The jeans-flaunting garden guru also lashed out at climate-change activists, and dismissed the idea of No Mow May, saying: “If you’re doing No Mow May, you’re doing blackbirds and thrushes out of the food they need for their nestlings.”
Alan previously said we should stop “rewilding” our gardens as the slug-hating scourge of North Korea thinks the trend is a backwards step. He reckons we should be packing out flower beds with fancy “exotic” blooms instead, lashing out at “fads and fancies” in the run up to next week’s posh Chelsea Flower Show.
Alan, 75, wrote in Country Life magazine: “Why anyone could think fewer species and varieties could increase biodiversity is beyond me. The variety of today’s show gardens is hugely welcome, as is the appearance of young garden designers with original ideas.
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