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Susan Knox

Vogue Williams slams vile troll who bombards her with abuse over son after plane backlash

Vogue Williams has hit back on social media after a vile troll bombarded her with abuse, calling her baby son Otto 'ugly'.

The Irish TV presenter, 36, who shares three children with husband Spencer Matthews, posted the vile comments on her Instagram stories on Friday after the social media troll flooded her with nasty messages following recent light-hearted comments she made about an 'awful' man who refused to swap seats with her on a plane during a family holiday.

Proud mum-of-three Vogue explained on her podcast, My Therapist Ghosted Me, which she hosts alongside longterm pal Joanne McNally, that she had accidentally booked the wrong seat on the flight, which meant she wasn’t able to sit beside her husband Spencer, and their children, Theodore, 4, Gigi, 2, and baby Otto.

However, during the flight, Vogue approached the man who was sitting alongside her family, and asked him if he would mind swapping seats in order to allow the family-of-five to sit together.

Vogue hit back at the vile comments about her baby son (Instagram)

After the man refused to allow Vogue to sit with her children, the TV presenter and podcast host called him a 'sh***bag' on her podcast, and her comments sparked a huge debate on social media - with some calling Vogue 'privileged' and 'tone deaf'.

One particularly annoyed Instagram user has been bombarding Vogue with vile messages, calling her baby son Otto 'ugly', and insisting that he wouldn't swap seats either if he was asked because he wouldn't want to sit beside something so 'disgusting'.

The troll wrote: “Disgusting… How can it be so f**king ugly, holy s**t… Wouldn’t trade my plane seat for that either, wouldn’t even want to sit close to it.”

Vogue then hit back, insisting that her plane story was simply a light-hearted one, as she said 'enough is enough' after receiving an onslaught of abuse.

Vogue is a proud mum to three kids (INSTAGRAM)
The mum said 'enough is enough' (Dave Benett/Getty Images for Amazon)

“Enough of this. I would never expect or demand anyone swaps a seat with me. It was a joke that definitely didn’t land," she penned.

Vogue detailed the encounter with the man on the plane on her podcast, saying: “We were flying back here on our holiday back in July and this absolute s***ebag…”

"So I was sitting in an aisle of three, I had booked the wrong seat on the other aisle. And then Spenny and the kids were in the other seat. So they were in the aisle seat and middle seat so we were almost in an aisle of five,” she said.

Vogue welcomed baby Otto earlier this summer (mirror.co.uk)
Vogue and Spencer share Theodore, Gigi, and Otto (INSTAGRAM)

“The guy was sitting in the aisle seat and Spencer was like ‘Would you mind doing window instead of aisle so we can be all together.’ And he was like ‘Yes Spencer, I would mind.’”

“We were just like, ‘oh, okay dude, that’s okay,’ and so anyway when he realised he was being an absolute t**t, he looked at me with a newborn baby and the two kids beside me, ‘he was like okay, fine, fine I’ll do it.’

“Then literally the air hostess came down and I asked her ‘Would you have another aisle seat for this f**king particular piece of s**t over here’. He was awful,” she said, before Spencer added, “He was rubbish.”

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