Katie Hopkins Tweets joke about Paralympian Tanni Grey-Thompson

The This Morning regular does what she does best - cause offence

Katie Hopkins has posted a less-than-kind Tweet about Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson (Getty Images)

Katie Hopkins has once again made the lives of the bookers on ITV's This Morning that little bit easier.

On this occasion, the former Apprentice candidate has insulted 11-time Paralympic gold medallist Tanni Grey-Thompson.

In between Tweets about NHS walk-in clinics and the job centre, Hopkins posted a message saying: "Tanni Grey-Thompson. God I wish there were some carpet tacks lying about between her and the BBC studios."

Baroness Grey-Thompson, a crossbench peer, was born with spina bifida and uses a wheelchair.

Hopkins was referring to the former athlete's appearance on BBC Radio 2, where Baroness Grey-Thompson was discussing "what makes us human?" with Jeremy Vine.

On Twitter, one user asked: "Tanni Grey-Thompson won 11 gold medals and sits in the House of Lords. What's Katie Hopkins famous for again? I'd really like to know."

Another user Tweeted: "Popcorn time."

Last week, Hopkins saw the funny side when it was announced that her 40ft effigy would be burned by Kent's Edenbridge Bonfire Society.

She told the BBC: "I think if you took all the things in life personally, you could get very offended indeed and I am not one of those people - I can laugh at myself."

She admitted she'd said "things people don't like and this is a great way of getting a lot of people there to watch the bonfire celebrations and raise a lot of money for charity".