Katherine Jenkins calls stalker 'utterly pathetic'

Katherine Jenkins calls stalker 'utterly pathetic'
Katherine Jenkins calls stalker 'utterly pathetic' (Image credit: PA Wire/Press Association Images)

Katherine Jenkins has attacked an 'utterly pathetic' online stalker who she says has been harassing her for more than a year. The Welsh singer spoke out after the stalker managed to tweet a question for her during the BBC Two programme Something For The Weekend. The 31-year-old mezzo soprano said she had tried to ignore the bully, but her patience had run out after the question was sent in to be read out on live TV. She said the stalker had set up a false Twitter account in her name and taunted her over the death of her father from lung cancer when she was teenager. "Dear ******* I find it very sad that even as an adult u think it's ok to bully some1," Katherine wrote on her Twitter account. "Every1 is entitled 2 their opinion & I'm not under any false illusion that every1 is goin 2like me but u have no right to harass me as u've done over the past year with comments like 'bring out the dead daddy story again'. "You've set up a false account in my name where u slate & destroy my character. After blocking you, you still tried 2 find a way 2get to me & this morning was 1 step too far. "Sending in a question to be read on live TV (which didn't even make any sense!) to 'make me look clueless' is utterly pathetic & u clearly failed. "I've tried to ignore you but after this it's time to stand up to you. "The sad thing is you'll probably enjoy the attention which is why I haven't mentioned your twitter name but I know you know who you are."

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.