Former Countdown star Carol Vorderman has slammed MP Johnny Mercer's wife Felicity Cornelius-Mercer as she accuses her of 'harassment'.
Speaking on LBC to host James O'Brien, Carol explained the MP's wife has "been harassing me for months on twitter. One day, she sent over 60 tweets in my direction."
She also added that she had nearly reported her to the police for it.
The fall out comes from a Twitter dispute where Carol Vorderman tweeted on Saturday (July 8) and referenced both Jonny and Felicity as she wrote : "Not a degree in sight in spite of expensive private education! So who’d employ them?"
She accompanied the tweet with a shrugging emoji.
Speaking on LBC, James O'Brien addressed the tweets as he said: "I don't know whether people are pretending not to understand or whether they genuinely failed to understand what the point you were making in the tweets about Mr. and Mrs. Mercer's degreeless state."
Replying, Carol explained: "Yes. So this came, and it's a distraction technique from the real story. So this I'm going to tell you people don't know yet. But Johnny Mercer’s wife has been harassing me for months on Twitter.
"One day, she sent over 60 tweets in my direction. And that's just one day. A lot of vile abuse, a lot of appalling stuff and words that she used about my private life, I mean really misogynistic stuff, actually."
She continued: "But people don't know that, that'd be the first time that people will know that. To the point where I almost felt like reporting her to be honest. It was quite upsetting.
"So I said nothing. I did absolutely nothing. She did a podcast actually with Rachel Johnson saying Carol Vorderman drives me effing nuts. She's stupid. She's this, she’s that. I still said nothing. Absolutely nothing."
In response to Carol’s comments, Felicity Cornelius-Mercer told LBC: "I think people can see for themselves what it is. The 60 tweets she’s referring to are comments from her followers that she has told to get in touch with MPs and ask why they haven’t got their Party in their bio.
"To highlight- she was funnelling unnecessary criticism in MP’s direction- in Jonny’s direction. If you incite all of this upset on one political Party and you keep going you eventually make a mistake.
"And she has made a mistake by telling me and Jonny we are unemployable because we don’t have a degree. All I’m trying to do is push back against hatred against one political Party."
Since appearing on LBC, Carol has also shared a tweet again pointing the finger at Felicity Cornelius-Mercer as she wrote: "New info for you. I've been harassed by Johnny Mercer's wife for months. This is from just one day in April + much more abuse elsewhere I didn't respond at all Until he mocked military using foodbanks. She's paid c£45k on MP expenses (+200% pay rise) to do this?"
She shared a video highlighting tweets from Felicity's account where she was resharing tweets and tagging Carol. The tweets appear to all be from 17th April this year.
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