Becky Hill calls out Jack Whitehall for BRITs ‘Wetherspoons Whitney’ comment

nme.com:

Becky Hill has criticised Jack Whitehall for calling her ‘Wetherspoons Whitney’ and assuming she was less well off because of her Midlands accent at the BRITs earlier this month.The comments came when Hill shared a screenshot of a message pointing out the privileged backgrounds of various attendees at the ceremony on March 1.

For example, it pointed out that Charli XCX – who won five awards that night – attended the £38,319-a-year Bishop’s Stortford College, A.G.

Cook went to the £27,747-a-year King Alfred’s School and The Last Dinner Party were alumna of Bedales, which costs £52,075 a year.

The post also said that host Whitehall was no different, having been educated at the £52,000-a-year The Dragon School in Oxford.“Imagine being called a ‘Wetherspoons Whitney’ by some privately educated nepo baby who has a TV show with daddy the showbiz agent on national TV,” Hill, who is from Bewdley, Worcestershire, wrote on her Instagram Story. “My parents worked so hard to provide a middle class life for me, even tho they couldn’t afford it, no one gave me a leg up, I wasn’t near London so I couldn’t go to the BRIT School.