We thought we couldn’t love Patrick Stewart any more than we already did, but when we saw his brilliant response to a mistake printed about him in the Guardian, we realised we could love him a whole lot more.
The Guardian made the mistake in article they had written about support for Ellen Page following her amazing coming out speech at Time To THRIVE. The paper wrongly printed: ‘Some gay people, such as Sir Patrick Stewart, think Page’s coming out speech is newsworthy’. This should have read ‘Some people, such as Sir Patrick Stewart, think Page’s coming out speech is newsworthy’. The paper later corrected the error.
However, not before Patrick Stewart was made aware of this. The actor took to twitter to let people know how he felt about everything.
.@Poynter But @guardian I have, like, five or even SEVEN hetero friends and we totally drink beer and eat lots of chicken wings!
— Patrick Stewart (@SirPatStew) February 18, 2014
Well, @guardian it makes for a nice change…at least I didn’t wake up to the internet telling me I was dead again.
— Patrick Stewart (@SirPatStew) February 18, 2014
MT “@Gruaig_Rua: @Poynter Silly @guardian. You can’t catch gay by hanging out with #LGBT people.”
— Patrick Stewart (@SirPatStew) February 18, 2014
