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Mayor Rob Ford responded angrily to a reporter who asked if he had been drinking at a nightclub over the weekend, and asked if she was “jealous” that he had received “some attention at the clubs.”

Mayor Ford’s appearance at Muzik, on the Canadian National Exhibition grounds, caused a stir on social media Saturday, with several clubbers posting photos with the chief magistrate.

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But Mr. Ford, who last year admitted to smoking crack cocaine while in a drunken stupor and numerous episodes of public drunkenness, did not appreciate being questioned by a reporter about his sobriety on Saturday. He has vowed to quit drinking.

“Were you drinking this weekend? Were you drinking this weekend?” he asked CBC reporter Lorenda Reddekopp, who posed the question. “Well then. No I wasn’t drinking. I don’t drink.”

Then as he entered an elevator that would carry him to a special council meeting on the ice storm, the mayor turned and said: “I get some attention at the clubs, is that what you’re jealous about?”