Having been called a ‘bitter old troll’ by Lily Allen, Julie Burchill was never going to go away quietly.
The writer yesterday used another newspaper column to launch a fresh wave of attacks on the singer, referring to her as Marie Antoinette.
The pair have been at war ever since Miss Burchill incurred Miss Allen’s wrath at the start of the week by comparing her unfavourably to Cheryl Cole and calling her ‘an over-privileged cry-baby’.
Miss Allen used her Twitter account to hit back with the troll remark.
But writing in yesterday’s Independent Miss Burchill referred to herself as a ‘fat, past-my-best hack’ and told the 26-year-old star to stop worrying about what others thought of her. The columnist seemed to be trying to put a lid on the matter but couldn’t resist a few digs at Miss Allen.
Comparing her to the spoilt Queen of France, she wrote: ‘Yes, between baking cakes, milking publicity – sorry, cows – and making television documentaries/doing interviews about how she’s turned her back on fame,
'Miss Antoinette – sorry, Allen – found the time to Twitter that I was “an ignorant and bitter old troll... the amateur psychiatrist in me says [Burchill] sees a lot of her younger self in me, and she’s a bit of a self-loather”.
‘She also spelt my name wrong, and I can say hand on heart that that’s the only thing that hurt.’
The self-confessed former drug addict added: ‘I guess the reason it rolled off me so slickly is that being called self-loathing by Lily Allen is an achievement akin to being called fat by Dawn French (which I have been).’
The letter included the message: ‘When we first make a choice – as your daughter did – to enter public life, there is a lesson above all which we must quickly learn if we are not to appear stupid…“If you dish it out, you must take it”.
‘If we cannot absorb this childish-sounding but actually very intellectually rigorous piece of information quickly, we risk looking like, at least, cry-babies and at worst, filthy hypocrites.’
Despite her remarks, Miss Burchill rounds off her column saying she has a ‘soft spot’ for Miss Allen.
She writes: ‘You are a young beautiful, talented artist… I am an old, fat, past-my-best hack with my triumphs behind me.‘BUT! If you go through life taking notice of what people like me say about you, you will never be one tenth as happy as I am now, in my porky dog-days.’
Miss Allen had last night failed to respond to the comments.
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