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Twitter's Reaction To Katie Hopkins On 'Living With Lucy' Was Shockingly Positive

Never has the premise of a television show been closer to violating the Geneva Convention than last night's episode of TV3's Living With Lucy. The episode saw Lucy Kennedy move in to Katie Hopkins spare room in Bristol to spend a few days with the much-maligned collection of controversial views that have coalesced into something resembling a person; or 'Katie Hopkins', as she is known. Sending someone to live with Ms. Hopkins seems like some extreme level of punishment, a method of torture which would be considered beyond the pale even bythe fellas in Guantanamo Bay who's walls are lined with pliers, car-batteries and nipple-clamps.

That said, however much you can disagree with the opinions of Katie Hopkins, she undeniably has a right to hold them. In much the same way that if someone wants to cradle a boiled ham for weeks on end, until it has begun to putrefy, and then eat this ham, you will think the person utterly deranged, utterly removed from any frame of reality you can relate to, but they undeniably have a right to do it.

As such, the calls to have the show pulled before it was aired, and the abuse that Lucy Kennedy received for giving Katie Hopkins the 'oxygen of publicity' was rather petulant. Lucy Kennedy excellent played up to Ms. Hopkins, challenging her on her opinions, while still obviously being all too painfully aware that she was staying in the Ms. Hopkins' spare room and so was trying not to push her to an extent that would see her return one evening to the room and find all her clothes bagged up and sent to a landfill.

Anyway, the people of Twitter naturally reacted rather vehemently to the show, but was surprising in that the dominant view seemed to be that people found themselves warming to her over the course of the show.

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