The Crown fans all have the same complaint about Jonny Lee Miller’s John Major
THE Crown is facing more fury from viewers, because it’s made them fancy boring PM Sir John Major.
Since debuting this week on Netflix, the show has had women swooning over the man who was once nicknamed The Grey Man of politics.
It’s not just down to casting Trainspotting hunk Jonny Lee Miller, 49, as Sir John, now 79.
They say the show has given him a strangely sexy edge - and it doesn’t even touch on his affair with fellow MP Edwina Currie.
One female Tweeter said: “Watched The Crown last night and then ‘had dreams’ about John Major. Why would they do this to me?”
Another wrote: “He is far too hot…I don’t want to fancy John Major.”
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Another woman Tweeted: “Nothing could have prepared me for sexy John Major… sounds like a quote from one of Edwina Currie’s diaries.”
The fifth series of The Crown has created fury for delving into the royals’ darkest years from 1990 to 1997, which were the same years that Sir John was in Downing Street.
Before being released, he slammed the show as “a bucketload of nonsense” as it saw the then Prince of Wales lobby him to persuade the late Queen to abdicate and make way for her son.
A TV insider said: “It’s ironic that the show he was so quick to slate has now helped spark a renewed respect for the former PM, who is portrayed in the show as an enigmatic statesman.”
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The first episode of The Crown, which was released on Wednesday at 8am, had 1.1million viewers tune in during the first 16 hours of release, and is expected to be far higher once the standard seven-day tally is calculated.