Biggest celebrity web moments of 2011
Posted Friday, December 30, 2011 by The Sun
BARTON'S TOWIE 'RETARD' SLIP
Payback ... TOWIE gang react to slights from Joey Barton, inset
SOCCER bad boy Joey Barton was in trouble with a disability charity in November after he labelled the cast of The Only Way Is Essex "retards".
He laid into them, which they followed by posting a group photo online that saw them holding up their little fingers to mock his manhood.
He then sneered back: "Just LOL-ed at TOWIE retards picture."
The snap shows cast member Patricia "Nanny Pat" Brooker, 73, holding a sign reading "Jel Joey Barton" — a catchphrase on the ITV2 show meaning jealous.
Referring to the Twitter snap — and pinpointing Nanny Pat — Joey wrote: "It's like a circus freak show. You've got midgets, hippos, about six with Red Rum's teeth in and a corpse holding a sign."
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