Actor Rupert Everett has criticised Americans in an interview with a TV listings magazine.

He has described them as "whiny victims" whose entire language is taken from US TV series Friends and Sex And The City.

Everett told the magazine: "I'm totally off the States now. The reaction to 9/11 and then George Bush - really, they've got very blobby as a nation.

"When I was a kid, the British were blobby, and you'd go to New York where anything went and everyone was excited and casual and friendly, and you were just dying to get away from this British hellhole where an avocado was the most exciting thing you'd ever seen.

"It's turned round the other way now.

"Now they (the Americans) are whiny victims whose language is entirely taken from two TV shows - Friends and Sex And The City - and there's nothing sexy about them any more."

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