Stephen Fry upsets women and Warner Bros

Actor, writer, celebrity and professional attention-seeker Stephen Fry appears to have got himself into a spot of bother after failing to control his Twitter compulsions. Fry is currently at Leavesden studios in Hertfordshire filming the sequel to the Sherlock Holmes movie, in which he plays the detective’s brother Mycroft.

While filming scenes from the Guy Ritchie-directed film on Thursday, Fry took time out to snap a few photos from the adjoining set of the forthcoming Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and uploaded them on to his Twitter page. Among the images were one of Hogwarts school in ruins and another showing the home of Harry Potter’s aunt and uncle, both of which went down a treat with the 1.9 million people who follow Fry's every tweet.

But Warner Bros, who are producing the seventh and final film of the Potter saga, appear to have been less impressed and the photos soon vanished from the world wide web. Fry later tweeted:

"Oops. I've been sent to the naughty step...", but the famously garrulous luvvie said nothing more until asked by one of his followers if Warner Bros were being a little too protective of the final Potter film: "Your words, not mine…" he tweeted back. When he arrived for work on Friday Fry used his Twitter page to promise: "Shall be a good boy on set today. *Sticks gaffer-tape over camera lens* Heigh ho."

The Sunday Telegraph reports that Fry was half-expecting a confrontation with the film company after tweeting the previous week on his way to the first day of filming: "Warner's publ ppl (publicity people) haven't told me the rules on tweeting from the set yet, but I expect it's frowned upon."

But Fry has still been unable to stop himself describing his every move during the filming for the sequel to last year's Sherlock Holmes film, including an account of a night shoot and a boat scene.

At least those Potter fans whose appetites have been whetted by Fry's indiscretions won't have too long to wait to see the film. The first part of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is released on November 19, with the second part to follow next summer.

Meanwhile, Fry has also been rubbing feminists up the wrong way by claiming that women don't much care for sex on the whole. In an interview with the November edition of Attitude magazine, the homosexual actor said: "If women liked sex as much as men, there would be straight cruising areas in the way there are gay cruising areas. Women would go and hang around in churchyards thinking: 'God, I've got to get my fucking rocks off', or they'd go to Hampstead Heath and meet strangers to shag behind a bush. It doesn't happen. Why? Because the only women you can have sex with like that wish to be paid for it."

Fry then said that women went to bed with men in return for long-term commitment: "The only reason women will have sex with them is that sex is the price they are willing to pay for a relationship with a man, which is what they want," he stated.

Fry's remarks have drawn a strong reaction from the female of the species with journalist Rosie Boycott leading the charge in refuting the accusations: "Women are just as capable as men are of enjoying sex. We don't go cruising or cottaging on Hampstead Heath because we don't need to... women have other ways to get our thrills, and we can go and get them in bars or clubs. Having said which, we probably also do it in parks sometimes too. It's just that we don't call it cottaging. I'm sure I've done it in parks in my time." ·