IT’S difficult to keep up with the pontifications of nature enthusiast Chris Packham these days. He seems to find everything annoying. In a recent rant, he had a go at Taylor Swift, saying that instead of using private jet s on her tour, she should fly commercially.
What this proves is that Mr Packham simply doesn’t understand the real world. Ms Swift’s tour is enormous. One day she was in Zurich, then she’d be off to Stockholm and London and Dublin and Paris and I’m sorry, but as anyone who’s used an aeroplane in the last few years knows, this sort of schedule would have been impossible if she’d used BA or Ryanair or whatever.
She would either have been late for every gig, or not there at all, or in Copenhagen when she was supposed to be in Vancouver. READ MORE FROM JEREMY CLARKSON But there’s more to it than that. And this is something else Mr Packham can’t grasp.
Taylor Swift is so famous that going through an ordinary airport to catch an ordinary plane would be impossible. If she stopped for every selfie-hunter, she’d miss the plane. And if she didn’t she’d be torn to shreds on social media for being rude and lah-di-dah.
So what Mr Packham is doing by kind of ordering her to fly with the masses is tantamount to bullying . Because she can’t. Most read in The Sun Packham is reasonably well known among the nation’s ramblers and bingo enthusiasts, but he has no knowledge of what it’s like to be properly famous.
So famous that you are physically.
