‘You, young lady, are not going out like that’

Jose Mourinho was playing the part of the mortified father at the recent GQ Men of the Year party.

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Matilde Mourinho and her mortified father

It's not easy being a middle-aged man these days. True, Alexander Carter-Silk's heavy-handed compliment to Charlotte Proudman about her LinkedIn photo was cringe-making. ("I appreciate this is probably horrendously politically incorrect but that is a stunning picture!!!") But did it really justify Miss Proudman's furiously indignant response, denouncing the message as "unacceptable and misogynist" and then posting the whole exchange on Twitter?

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