Clarissa Dickson Wright, a British television cook who is an outspoken pro-hunt activist, recently told the Edenburgh Evening News that she receives as many as 15 death threats a week from animal rigths activists angered over her public support of hunting.
Dickson Wright hosts the cooking show Two Fat Ladies and also is known for her documentary series about British rural life, Clarissa and the Countryman. She has an outspoken defender of hunting in Great Britain and has incurred the wrath of animal rights activists.
During a 2000 promotional tour for a book based upon Clarissa and the Countryman, she and her co-host Johnny Scott were sprayed with red paint by animal rights activists.
Dickson Wright told The Edinburgh Evening News,
I can get as many as 15 death threats a week, eitehr at my home in East Lothian or at the shop [a bookstore Dickson Wright owns]. Some of them can be extremely nasty, saying I’m going to die horribly or showing graphic pictures of me dying.
There’s a detective assigned to me who I can call for advice depending on the nature of the threats, and if I’m going to appear at an event.
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I’m pretty used to it by now. Sometimes I get bored with it, but I tend to keep the more serious ones to show to friends.
Source:
’15 death threats a week’ for TV chef. Brian Ferguson, Edinburgh Evening News, February 27, 2003.