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Oxford-educated Saltburn director Emerald Fennell, 38, is branded a 'f***ing snob' for chuckling at joke about working class people, reveals EMILY PRESCOTT


EMILY PRESCOTT: Emerald Fennell was left red-faced after being heckled and called a 'snob' for laughing at a joke about working-class people.

But last week she was left red-faced after being heckled and called a ‘snob’ for laughing at a joke about working-class people. When she chuckled at the writer’s anecdote about once being mistaken for a waiter at a posh dinner party, one woman in the audience at Waterstones in Central London took offence, complaining: ‘That’s not funny. Emerald, 38, is the Marlborough-educated daughter of celebrity jeweller Theo Fennell, while Jonny – who also wrote the new Olivia Colman film Wicked Little Letters – was privately educated at Nottingham High School before going to Cambridge.

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