Vernon Kay has jokingly hit back at fans who questioned his clothing choice at Wimbledon after he attended the men’s final on Sunday.
The TV alum, 50, looked suave as he attended the event at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in south-west London alongside his daughter Phoebe.
The presenter, 50, who shares the 19-year-old with Tess Daly, smiled as he proudly posed with his daughter before heading inside to enjoy the last day of the annual sports event.
Sharing a snap from his day out to Instagram, Vernon penned: ‘@wimbledon @emirates The final was so good!! C’mon.’
Hilariously, some of the star’s 891,000 followers were more focused on Vernon’s choice of attire than what was happening at the sporting event, taking to the comments to make jokes about his fitted T-shirt.
‘Is that a padded t-shirt?,’ wrote one fan, alongside a laughing emoji. Others quipped: ‘You’ve got your smedium Tshirt on @vernonkay.’
‘Got your Smedium on I see! Looking good @vernonkay.’; ‘Mmm nice tighty, tighty T-shirt Vern to go nicely with your tighty whities.’; ‘You wearing a smedium there @vernonkay.’
‘Is that t-shirt tight enough?’; ‘Tight enough top?’
Vernon quickly clapped back at fans and addressed the lighthearted influx of comments during his BBC Radio 2 show on Monday, admitting that ‘a lot of people’ did comment on his fashion choice.
He said: ‘It’s a strange morning, it doesn’t feel like a Monday morning after the huge weekend of sport.
‘Went to a couple of barbecues, got invited to a big barbecue for the match yesterday.
‘I went to Wimbledon, I posted a picture of myself outside Wimbledon outside Centre Court and a lot of people did comment on the smedium t-shirt.
‘I went with the smedium. Someone put “are you wearing a padded t-shirt there Vern?” and I went “yes, padded full of man.”‘
Despite the comments about the ‘padded shirt,’ Vernon looked in jovial spirits on Sunday as he proceeded to the star-studded centre court to watch a gruelling match between Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic.
His daughter Phoebe, 19, looked lovely in a strappy white mini dress, adding white leather-trimmed PVC mules and accessorising with a multi-print shoulder bag.
Phoebe is the eldest of the couple’s two children and along with sister Amber, 14, has enjoyed a childhood out of the spotlight.
Yet since turning 18 last year she has started creeping into the public eye, making her red carpet debut alongside her father at the John Wick Chapter 4 premiere last March.
Vernon previously revealed that he and Tess insist his children don’t live off their fame and must form ‘their own careers.’
It’s an important factor for the celebrity duo, who both fell into fame after being scouted as models and then turning to television.
Speaking to MailOnline in 2022, Vernon said he and his wife believe it’s important for their offspring ‘to find themselves’ and not be given their ‘life on a plate’, crediting the pair’s Northern backgrounds for shaping their parenting beliefs.
Vernon said: ‘We let them be independent when it comes to them and their futures because it’s important that you allow them to find themselves, which is character building and personality development.
‘Sometimes I think that the old silver spoon and life on a plate in front of them… I think that’s quite contradictory to how you want them to be.
‘Tess and I grew up in hearty, wholesome Northern families and that’s a huge trait that helped us in our personal development and I think that’s really important.’
Elsewhere at Wimbledon on Sunday, Benedict Cumberbatch wore a blue suit while wife Sophie Hunter stunned in an eye-catching yellow dress as they arrived hand-in-hand.
Meanwhile, Tom Hiddleston and Zawe Ashton were dressed in Ralph Lauren as they made a rare public appearance together on day 14 of the competition.
Irish actor Pierce Brosnan, 71, looked dapper in a navy suit and tie, while completing the look with shiny brown shoes and shades.
Andrew Garfield, 40, looked smart in a navy jacket and orange shirt, teamed with cream trousers.
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Source: USA Today
