She’s a supermodel feted for her stunning looks and sleek style.
But it seems Naomi Campbell is not a role model when it comes to spelling, after sending a congratulatory message via social media to 17-year-old Malala Yousafzai in which she called the new Nobel Peace Prize winner “Malaria”.
The well-meaning post sent via Instagram said: “Congratulations malaria on your #noblepeaceprize #2014 #Respect #joy #ithalljuststarted.”
Campbell, 44, not only got Malala’s name wrong but also misspelt Nobel as “noble”. There was a third error too, as the hashtag should have read #itsalljuststarted.
The schoolgirl became the youngest Nobel prize winner due to her courageous campaigning for education for women after being shot by the Taliban in her native north-west Pakistan.
Now living in Birmingham, she and Campbell worked together on social media in the campaign to rescue the girls kidnapped by Boko Haram in Nigeria.
It is possible that the misspelling of Malala’s name was the result of an autocorrect function on the model’s mobile phone.
Campbell, who has 294,000 Twitter followers, has now deleted the erroneous message and tweeted: “Darlings my iPhone and I are at odds it seems I type a word it seems to spit out another, forgive me.”
