Cooking show star is a target for the anti's (12/26/2002)

Animal rights extremists who disagree with the pro-hunting views of one of the stars of the popular television cooking show, “Two Fat Ladies,” vandalized her bookshop in Scotland.

Clarissa Dickson Wright is an avid supporter of fox hunting, a sport that was banned in Scotland in 2001. Activists, who are believed to have been working independently from any animal rights organizations, put stickers with the words “Animal Abuser” and a picture of an animal’s body torn to pieces on the front of her Cook’s Bookshop.

The Edinburgh Evening News reports that an assistant at the shop called the attack “cowardly.”

“I’m not in the least bit intimidated by this. I have removed the stickers, which numbered around a dozen,” said Ms. Dickson Wright’s assistant. “Whoever did this with the stickers, did it in the middle of the night when no one could catch them at all. It was just cowardly.”

This is not Ms. Dickson Wright’s first run in with anti’s. She was sprayed with red paint while promoting her book, Clarissa and the Countryman, written by Sir John Scott. Another book signing had to be cancelled because of bomb threats and she required round-the-clock security while filming the TV series after death threats were made against her.

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