Oxford-educated Saltburn director Emerald Fennell, 38, is branded a ‘f***ing snob’ for chuckling at joke about working class people, reveals EMILY PRESCOTT
As director of Saltburn, Emerald Fennell denounced the excesses of the ultra-rich.
But last week she was left red-faced after being harassed and called a ‘snob’ for laughing at a joke about working-class people.
Oxford-educated Emerald was challenged when she interviewed comedian Jonny Sweet about his new novel, The Kellerby Code.
When she chuckled at the writer’s anecdote about being mistaken for a waiter at a fancy dinner, a woman in the audience at Waterstones in central London took offense and complained: ‘That’s not funny. Why is it funny to be a waiter? What snobs.’
Oxford-educated Emerald Fennell was challenged when she interviewed comedian Jonny Sweet about his new novel, The Kellerby Code
Emerald, 38, is the Marlborough-educated daughter of famed jeweler Theo Fennell
She then tore several pages out of the book and stormed out of the event.
Emerald, 38, is the Marlborough-educated daughter of famed jeweler Theo Fennell, while Jonny – who also wrote the new Olivia Colman film Wicked Little Letters – was privately educated at Nottingham High School before going to Cambridge.
After the incident, Emerald said to me, “I’m used to it now, but I’m angry that it happened during Jonny’s moment.