Hetty Douglas at a ‘Young London’ party last year (Picture: Getty)

The artist who shared a ‘snobby’ photo of tradesmen in McDonald’s is the daughter of a builder, it emerged.

Hetty Douglas, 25, was accused of being a ‘spoiled rich girl gentrifying south London’ after she shared a photo on Instagram showing Warren Butt, 40, with other men, captioned ‘They look like they got 1 GCSE’.

The backlash she experienced was so fierce that she deleted her account. But, despite her post mocking tradesmen, it turns out her dad is himself a builder.

He spoke to the Daily Mail from his cottage in Cornwall while covered in rubble dust, saying: ‘She would be very angry with me if I was to speak to you.




‘I’d love to defend my daughter but the less anyone says the sooner it will hopefully all blow over.’

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A source close to the family told the paper that her comments were taken out of context.

‘They were being rude and swearing at those youngsters working behind the counter and Hetty thought they were out of order,’ they claimed.

‘I’m sure the builders would just dismiss it as banter but they were very unkind and intimidating.

‘So she thought she would take these lads down a peg or two. Sadly it has backfired but she meant well.’

Her website info makes me want to scratch my eyes out. #hettydouglas pic.twitter.com/xlToksvNkS — Dave Buxton (@thedavebuxton) September 5, 2017

Hetty Douglas took down her Instagram account, which had 15,000 followers, amid the backlash after photographer Rhi Harper shared the photo on Twitter.

‘And you look like a spoiled rich girl gentrifying south London,’ Rhi wrote in a tweet which was shared 11,000 times.

Replying, one user said: ‘F***ing hell all they wanted was a McDonald’s she needs to chill.’

and you look like a spoiled rich girl gentrifying south London pic.twitter.com/0bysFYfc9c — rhi (@rhiharper) September 4, 2017

This made my day https://t.co/aKwlCEWanh — rhi (@rhiharper) September 4, 2017

Another added: ‘Those guys look like mighty fine hard working men to me.’

Hetty Douglas’s website says that her art ‘makes work that represents both the light and dark that comes with simply existing.

‘Underneath the tantalising layers of Douglas’s work lies a clear pursuit for something that truly matters – a stable place and a true identity in a world that can happily chew you up, spit you out and not think twice about it.’

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