Stephen Fry quits Twitter after BAFTA controversy

For many of you, Stephen Fry will have been one of the first celebrities you followed on Twitter.

But now the QI host is quitting the social network, after he came in for criticism online over a comment he made while presenting Sunday night's BAFTA awards. Fry accused an award winner of looking like a "bag lady". Though he later posted a photo of himself with the woman in question, costume designer Jenny Beavan, the damage had been done. https://twitter.com/merseytart/status/699186989913018368 https://twitter.com/the_itch1980/status/698999671059062784 https://twitter.com/BeardedGenius/status/699001111945089024 After a long back-and-forth with supporters and opponents, the 58-year-old decided to hang up his Twitter boots. Some of Fry's celebrity friends were quick to leap to his defence. https://twitter.com/RealMattLucas/status/699008774791520256 https://twitter.com/JonathanRShow/status/699167799902629888 But the knives were still out in some circles. https://twitter.com/TheAuracl3/status/699173339294801920 https://twitter.com/colourfulsevens/status/699158761840189440 https://twitter.com/T_om_s/status/699169289518112768 Fry has, of course, left Twitter in the past...only to later return. With that in mind, we might not have seen the end of this.