I love Chrissy Teigen but wish she hadn’t handed victory to the trolls by leaving Twitter

Chrissy’s unfailing cheeriness will be sadly missed on Twitter, where nastiness reigns supreme, writes Janet Street-Porter

TV host and lifestyle promoter Chrissy Teigen (2020 Invision)

TV host and lifestyle promoter Chrissy Teigen has left Twitter – where she commanded 13.7 million followers – citing the negativity she encountered. She says “my life goal is to make people happy”, and has “come to terms with the fact that some people aren’t gonna like me”. I know the feeling. But I wish she’d been tougher, and not handed victory to the trolls.

Since 2017, Chrissy and her husband John Legend have been targeted by supporters of conspiracy theorists QAnon, who falsely claimed the couple were part of a secret paedophile ring. Chrissy has blocked and unfollowed millions of hostile accounts, announcing in a final tweet: “I have taken so many small, 2-follower counter punches, that at this point, I am honestly deeply bruised.”

Another wave of hostile comments came last year after she bravely documented her miscarriage on social media. Trolls claimed it was to “gain popularity”.

Chrissy’s unfailing cheeriness will be sadly missed on Twitter, where nastiness reigns supreme. This week, she appeared on James Corden’s Late Late Show in the US confessing that she’d once had sex with her husband in the toilet at the Democratic Party Convention. You’ve got to love this woman! 

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Her appearance was to promote the new company she’s launched with Good American Denim company founder Emma Grede and Kris Jenner, called Safely, with a range of home cleaning products.

I sneered at the sight of these fashion mavens promoting surface cleaner in big green (albeit beautifully designed) bottles, with all the shelf appeal of expensive cosmetics. But then I read that the home cleaning market is set to double in the next six years. Smart thinking, ladies, although I won’t be paying out for celebrity toilet cleaner.