With Hague, life imitates Little Britain

British Foreign Secretary Norman Hague is a regular Sir Norman Fry, defending his marriage and denying his homosexuality after admitting sharing a hotel room with a young male aide who's since been forced to resign.


Hague admitted: "Whilst campaigning before the election we (he and a 25-year-old member of his "Tyke Mafia" of young aides who share his Yorkshire roots) occasionally shared twin hotel rooms. Neither of us would have done so if we had thought that it in any way meant or implied something else.

"In hindsight I should have given greater consideration to what might have been made of that..."

Yes, he actually used the word "hindsight."

Sir Norman Fry is a character on the comedy series Little Britain, a supposedly respectable member of Parliament with a wife and two kids who's always issuing statements to the press regarding compromising situations in which he's been caught.


His statements are written and delivered in a futile attempt to make his escapades sound innocent and justifiable, using phrases such as "on entering the room, my clothes accidentally fell off" or "I followed the gentlemen into the toilet cubicle to discuss foreign policy", and to cover up his apparent homosexual tendencies, since all of his statements refer to encounters with other men. He always makes his statements with his wife and children present and kisses his wife afterwards.

Gareth Daffyd Thomas: Now that's funny!

Ever since the admission by Welsh rugby star Gareth Thomas that he's a pillow-biting shirtlifter (You got a problem with that? We didn't think so.) was first reported in a homophobic agony aunt feature in The Daily Mail, we've awaited the other snigering schoolboy headlines from the real down-and-dirty tabs.

But the hedder in The Sun? Fackin' sublime.


For those who aren't fans of Little Britain, the Sun headline refers to the comedy series' character Daffyd Thomas, who lives in the Welsh mining village of Llanddewi Brefi, is a self-proclaimed gay man who dresses in a vast variety of tight PVC and latex rubber clothing and proudly proclaims that he is "the only gay in the village," when in fact, there is a huge gay community in his village and the surrounding area that he utterly refuses to associate with-- a background that could be a hint that The Sun was also commenting on Gareth Thomas' rugby colleagues.