Simon Blake, the deputy chair of LGBTQ+ charity Stonewall has announced that he is suing Laurence Fox over a comment he'd made in a Twitter row over supermarket Sainbury's.
Fox rowed with multiple users on the site over the weekend after telling his 241,000 Twitter followers that he planned to boycott the supermarket chain over their public support of Black History Month.
The actor shared Sainsbury's tweet about its support of the observance, saying he would be boycotting the store and refusing to shop there ever again.
Blake, to his 16,000 followers wrote in response to Fox "What a mess. What a racist t***" and others - including Coronation Street actress Nicola Thorp, who has 52,000 followers - criticised Fox for his post about