POOR old Stephen Fry’s not having a terribly good week is he?

During his stint hosting Sunday night's BAFTAS he managed to outage half the nation with his now infamous ‘bag lady’ comment.

Costume designer Julie Beavan had just won an award for her work on the movie Mad Max: Fury Road and came up to collect her BAFTA dressed in jeans and a leather jacket.

She gave an extremely humble speech and was clearly overwhelmed with it all but as she walked off stage Stephen Fry quipped: “Only one of the great cinematic costume designers would come to an awards ceremony dressed as a bag lady.”

The joke went down like the proverbial lead balloon on Twitter, with users unaware that the two were actually good friends.

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I'll hold my hands up right now and say I was really taken aback by this when I watched it and thought it was a tad harsh because you just don't expect that kind of snide remark from Stephen Fry and, yes okay I realise they are good mates but as an audience we are not mind readers and wouldn't have known that at the time.

Unfortunately, though, that's the thing with social media.

No one has any time to think when these things happen, everyone's reaction is usually so instant.

What truly shocked me though was his reaction to the outrage on Twitter when he angrily responded with a verbal volley and at the same time pointing out Jenny Beavan was a friend and that "joshing is legitimate, Christ I want to leave the planet”.

There were a few more angry exchanges and then he deleted his Twitter account completely and wrote an explanation on his webpage the next day explaining why.

I adore Stephen Fry and I think he is a lovely man which is why I think so many people reacted the way they did to the whole situation.

I'm sorry he's felt the need to leave social media though, as he had millions of genuine fans following him, loving his usually witty, endearing banter and besides, give it a few more days and the likes of Kanye West or Miley Cyrus will have done something so offensively outrageous to offend the masses that the words bag and lady will be a distant memory.

In other news this week Katie Price aka Jordan shocked her fans when she posted a picture of herself sporting a gorgeous bob haircut, shedding her trademark hair extensions we’ve all come to know and love over the past 20 years and secretly questioned if they were actually, in fact, machine washable too, but still none the wiser on that front.

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This revelation genuinely made headline news but sadly only a few days later Katie confessed to the nation that her new improved hairdo was in fact just a very good wig as she's experimenting with her locks at the moment in the hopes of bringing out her own haircare range.

Well I thought if Katie doesn't actually have the guts to go for the chop I'll step up to the plate and accept the scalping challenge to have my hair cropped into a lovely bob cut.

I don't know why but I've always wildly experimented with my hair to the point that my darling friend and Scotland's top stylist Taylor Ferguson must run for the hills every time I come bounding into his salon on Bath Street with a new idea.

I've had every hairstyle you can imagine; I've been a blonde, a redhead, a brunette and I even went candy floss pink last summer, so I genuinely have no fear when it comes to my barnet.

Thank you to Taylor, Anne, Ian, Michael and all the team at Taylor Ferguson for my gorgeous new hair cut.

There you go Katie Price, follow that.

Thank you so much to the very talented Lucy Ferris from Dreaming of Home for her gorgeous work on my new dining room chairs.

I've been searching for a lovely red table and chairs for ages and finally gave up and bought a plain table and painted it myself (trust me that hilarity was a whole other column right there) but thankfully Lucy saved the day and upholstered the chairs for me and I couldn't be any happier.

Thank you so much again and if you would like more information just check out Lucy's online shop here