The Other Side Is Always Greener?

Emma Brand takes to social media to find the two sides of Professor Green.

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When you think of the public image of East London rapper Professor Green you might assume that the man himself is a bit of a thug. Not so! His recent show about homeless people on BBC Three, which is currently being promoted to the 2.1 million followers on his Twitter account, shows there is a completely different side to him – a side that really cares about other people and the state they’re in.

Instead of an extensive criminal record, there are actually more precedents for the caring side of the Professor’s character.

His previous documentary, about male suicide, was indirectly connected to his own situation: his father committed suicide while the Professor was growing up.

Clearly I am not alone in having misread Professor Green, since many others have been Tweeting him to tell him that their perceptions of him were wrong.

While the Prof comes over as kind and caring on his Twitter account, Instagram is where he is less than kind to soon-to-be ex-wife Millie Mackintosh (they are in the process of getting divorced).

In an ongoing game of Post It, she will post a photo on Instagram, and then he will post a more down to earth photo of a very similar thing. It started with a photo that Millie posted of an avocado, but then Professor Green posted a similar photo of his avocado. (You say ‘avocado’, I say ‘avocado’ – sorry, it doesn’t work if it’s not ‘tomato/tomato’.) She then posted what she was wearing to London Fashion Week, and he posted his clothes too. Next, Millie was seen flying to Australia in a private cabin; Professor Green retorted with a photo of himself in economy class en route to Ireland.

You get the picture?

They said that the break-up would be “on amicable terms”, but their tit-for-tat Instagrammies could win an award for mutual mockery.

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