Icouldn’t help sniggering when I read in the Guardian that Tony Robinson, the diminutive (5’4) droll most famous for being in Blackadder , is venting his miniature wrath over the tendency of women on dating apps to desire men taller than them: ‘Nowadays, you don’t pick on people’s looks, do you? It’s like kind of a new understanding over the last ten or 15 years, you don’t deride people for what they look like’ he scolded on Elizabeth Day’s How to Fail podcast, admitting he had seen his shorter than average height as ‘a problem in life.’
You’d think having a gorgeous young wife would have rendered Sir Tony totally uncaring about what the youngsters get up to
A quick peek at his Wikipedia shows that Sir Tony (a long-time member of the Labour party, knighted in the 2013 Queen’s Birt