Everett slams American culture

Rupert Everett has launched a scathing attack on Americans.

In an interview with a TV listings magazine, the British actor described US residents as "whiny" and "blobby".

He said: "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."

Everett added that he dislikes Americans because they talk like characters from popular TV shows.

"Now [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 anymore."