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'It's alright for cleaning the oven with': Hugh Laurie upsets the Russians with call to boycott vodka over Putin’s anti-gay comments
House star urges his 300,000 Twitter followers to switch to Polish brands
Comments were slammed by many Russian commentators
But they were welcomed by the country's gay rights campaigners
Putin said gays welcome at the Olympics but must 'leave children alone'
Last year the country enacted an anti gay propaganda law
Actor Hugh Laurie has called for a Russian vodka boycott in protest against Vladimir Putin's comment that gay people are welcome at the Winter Olympics, providing they 'leave children in peace'.
In a message to his 300,000 Twitter followers, Laurie, 54, urged vodka drinkers should switch to Polish brands instead.
He wrote: 'I'd boycott Russian goods if I could think of a single thing they made besides the rest of the world depressed. Russian vodka is OK if you need to clean the oven. For drinking, it must henceforth be Polish.'
Laurie in Jeeves and Wooster with co-star and long-term comedy partner Stephen Fry, who is openly gay and has backed a boycott of the Winter Olympics
House star urges his 300,000 Twitter followers to switch to Polish brands
Comments were slammed by many Russian commentators
But they were welcomed by the country's gay rights campaigners
Putin said gays welcome at the Olympics but must 'leave children alone'
Last year the country enacted an anti gay propaganda law
Actor Hugh Laurie has called for a Russian vodka boycott in protest against Vladimir Putin's comment that gay people are welcome at the Winter Olympics, providing they 'leave children in peace'.
In a message to his 300,000 Twitter followers, Laurie, 54, urged vodka drinkers should switch to Polish brands instead.
He wrote: 'I'd boycott Russian goods if I could think of a single thing they made besides the rest of the world depressed. Russian vodka is OK if you need to clean the oven. For drinking, it must henceforth be Polish.'
Laurie in Jeeves and Wooster with co-star and long-term comedy partner Stephen Fry, who is openly gay and has backed a boycott of the Winter Olympics
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