Record 21,000 complaints over article on Gately

BRITAIN’S Press Complaints Commission received a record 21,000 complaints in relation to an article that appeared in the British edition of the Daily Mail criticising the “dangerous lifestyle” of the late Boyzone singer Stephen Gately.

This represents more complaints in a single weekend than the regulator has received in total in the past five years.

The article, written by Jan Moir, was headlined “Why there was nothing ‘natural’ about Stephen Gately’s death” and provoked wide-spread commentary on the internet.