Jess Glynne is facing backlash online after claiming she faced “pure discrimination” after being turned away from Sexy Fish Restaurant in Mayfair because of her outfit. She took to Instagram to publicly call out the restaurant saying; “Dear @sexyfishlondon I turned up to your restaurant looking like this and you looked me and my friend up and down and said no you can’t come in and your restaurant was EMPTY.”
Jess was dressed in a grey hoodie, black baseball cap and trainer despite the high-end restaurant’s “smart casual” dress code. She went on to say how she was more than welcome at another restaurant and finished her post by saying; “please check yourself if this is how you treat people cause it’s rude, off putting, embarrassing and most definitely not inviting. We were made to wait and 2 members of staff came to look at us and make a decision based on our appearance. I think the attitude of your staff needs to change as that was pure discrimination. Thanks and bye.”
The public did not react well to Jess Glynne’s rant, she has been repeatedly called out for being ignorant to the issues in the world at the moment and has been accused of being selfish. Another issue people had with this incident was that Jess could have been putting jobs at risk by calling the workers out. This is especially worrying given the current crisis these industries are facing because of the pandemic.
Jess Glynne absolutely desperate to be discriminated against so she drags a restaurant while the whole sector is struggling and cries because she went there looking like she was taking the bins out and they wouldn’t let her in. Absolute BEG pic.twitter.com/NFAuM1jdQp
— meg#BLACKLIVESMATTER (@megmcgreavy) July 7, 2020
The ironic thing about this Jess Glynne story is that if she had been allowed entry to the restaurant, despite epicly failing to meet its dress code requirements, that really would have been discrimination. pic.twitter.com/zOPfsNlK2J
— Danny Flexen (@DannyFlexen) July 7, 2020
However, some other celebrities seemed to agree with Jess. Musician Cass Lowe commented on the post saying; “Fuck that place!” Professor Green also commented to let Jess know; “Can’t lie, you didn’t miss out on much food wise.”
Sexy Fish Restaurant released a statement on the incident to HuffPost UK; “Sexy Fish supports individuality and style but respectfully ask all out guests to acknowledge our dress code which is published on our website. We are huge fans of Jess and feel sorry that she feels that she has been treated insensitively.”
