Hugh Laurie Apologises For 'Slightly Drunk' Social Media Posts About House

Hugh Laurie has apologised for what he’s claimed was a “slightly drunken” retort to someone on X who criticised his show, House.

Over the weekend, the British actor responded to one viewer who was watching House for the first time, and took issue with it for being repetitive and far-fetched.

“We actually tried a couple of episodes where House (Hugh Laurie) (please put the brackets in the right place) gets it right first time, but they were only six minutes long. NBC weren’t happy,” he wrote back, defending the medical drama.

“Then we tried some where House never gets it right and the patient dies. The audience wasn’t happy. One could apply your trenchant analysis to other art forms: JS Bach wrote 30 Goldberg variations on the same chord structure; Frida Kahlo painted 50 portraits of herself; Henry Moore, what??”

He concluded: “The point is, or was, variations on a theme; if all you see is hospital, medical blah blah, then it wasn’t meant for you.”

As news outlets, including HuffPost UK, began writing news stories about Hugh’s comments, the X user in question claimed she was beginning to receive abuse about it, prompting her to write a piece for Unherd.

On Monday night, Hugh penned another post addressed to that same user, which read: “I’m sorry if people have been having a go at you because of my tweet. Not at all the plan.

“I was very slightly drunk and already upset about something that had nothing to do with you. If it’s any comfort, I got it in the neck too. I’m a thin-skinned twat, apparently, even though it wasn’t my skin. I was sticking up for the writers who I adored.”

He continued: “Obviously I shouldn’t have cited Bach/Kahlo/Moore – asking for trouble – and would have done better to go for the 10,000 blues songs written around the same 12 bar chord structure. I’ve listened to most of them and will keep doing so. Because we love what we love.”

House ran for eight seasons before coming to an end in 2012.

During its time on the air, it was nominated for a hefty 25 Emmys, winning five, including for its writing and directing.

All eight seasons of House are currently streaming on Channel 4.