Actor Rupert Everett brands British soldiers 'path...
Actor Rupert Everett brands British soldiers 'pathetic, whining wimps'
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Controversial actor Rupert Everett has accused British soldiers risking their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan of being "whining wimps", it emerged today.
The 49-year-old, whose father is a retired major and has relatives who earned Victoria Crosses, branded modern recruits as "pathetic" and claimed: “The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed.”
The gay star has just finished filming a portrait of the 19th Century soldier and adventurer Sir Richard Burton for the Channel 4 documentary The Victorian Sex Explorer.
And comparing troops from now and then he said: “In Burton's day they were itching to get into the fray.
“Now it is the opposite. They are always whining about the dangers of being killed. Oh my God, they are such wimps now!
The 49-year-old, whose father is a retired major and has relatives who earned Victoria Crosses, branded modern recruits as "pathetic" and claimed: “The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed.”
The gay star has just finished filming a portrait of the 19th Century soldier and adventurer Sir Richard Burton for the Channel 4 documentary The Victorian Sex Explorer.
And comparing troops from now and then he said: “In Burton's day they were itching to get into the fray.
“Now it is the opposite. They are always whining about the dangers of being killed. Oh my God, they are such wimps now!
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