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Ed Holder is apologizing for any offence he caused from using what he describes as a “tongue-in-cheek” phrase, one that’s triggered a complaint against the rookie London mayor to the city’s integrity commissioner.

The complaint, filed Wednesday, alleges Holder repeatedly told a London woman “you are so annoying” at a post-inauguration reception at the London Convention Centre last month.

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Didi Pinto, a London woman, said she was at first surprised but later upset by what she called the “bizarre” exchange, which she says began when she was telling Holder about her applications to four city boards and commissions.

“I used to be an employment counsellor, and a job coach, and I’ve never seen someone behave, on their first day, in this manner, within the first two hours, in front of other people,” she said.

“I was very puzzled by his behaviour. I found it very bizarre and very, very inaccurate, what he said to me about my character.”