Richard Curtis doesn’t owe fat people an apology

Nepo-narcissism has plunged new depths. Scarlett Curtis, the mauve-haired social justice activist and daughter of filmmaker Richard, has been grilling her hapless father about his wicked pre-cultural revolutionary past.

During a creepy Soviet-style cross-examination in front of a crowd at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, Scarlett harangued the creator of Blackadder for failing to include a single black person in his film Notting Hill. Rather than telling his daughter to check her thinking – duh, the film came out in 1999, long before it became mandatory to patronise people of colour – Richard made the fatal error of trying to excuse his problematic past.

Everyone knows that self-flagellating in public won’t let you off the hook when activists come knocking, even when the activist in question emerged from your loins.

What about the adorable Gareth, he pleaded, you know, the gay one from Four Weddings and a Funeral, played by an actual homosexual called Simon Callow? Surely including a genuine queer person counts as a box well ticked? Well, not according to our Scarlett, who turned on her poor papa for the fatal error of turning Gareth into a tragic figure who dies of a heart attack.