the curious incident of the upper lip hair

The most eagle-eyed of our readers may have spotted in the Cambridge photo from the previous post that not only was Garnell in 'Specky' mode, but also appeared to be sporting some kind of furry animal between nose and lip...

In this shot, taken in the grounds of his Stansted mansion, the aberration is clearer.



So to what do we ascribe this? A flirtation with fascism? an alternative way of displaying his hunting trophies or does the picture of Nick in Brighton point us in a different direction? Look at these two photos of Garnell with an old 'friend'. Maybe there's more to that moustache in a 'Freddie Mercury' way than we had hitherto suspected...





Suspicious? Well, when you add this to his penchant for pink pullovers and ties and his constant 'need' to be photographed with the 'ladies' or as below, cradling a newborn child in a 'new man father' kind of way, the phrase 'methinks he doth protest too much' comes to mind.