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NICOLA COUGHLAN has slammed a podcast host for dubbing her ‘the fat girl from Bridgerton’.
The Derry Girls star, who plays Penelope in the hit Netflix regency drama, ticked off Big Calf presenter Amanda Richards on Twitter.
Richards had said: ‘The fat girl from Bridgerton is wearing a black cardigan at the Golden Globes. No matter how hot and stylish you are, if you’re a fat girl there will always be a black cardigan you think about wearing, then decide against, but ultimately wear because you feel like you have to.’
But Irish actress Coughlan, 34, said she wore her gown the way it was styled by the designer. She wrote: ‘I thought the cardigan looked ace, Molly Goddard used them on her runway with the dresses. Also, I have a name.’
Richards, whose podcast is about ‘growing up as the fat kid’, replied ‘fair enough’. She later hit out at trolls, posting: ‘People scolding me, a fat person, for using the word fat as a descriptor while simultaneously calling me a c***, a b****, a s*** stain, and a t***... you love to see it.’