Nigel Farage yesterday faced a grilling on Loose Women - and admitted he's "a bit like Marmite".
The Ukip leader was asked by panellist Linda Robson why he thought he had been voted the most hated man in Britain, to which he replied: "Well, that's probably quite a compliment isn't it?"
Mr Farage, who went to the prestigious public school Dulwich College, then sought to distinguish himself from the established political class which he said "all went to the same handful of schools and all go to Oxford".
Challenged on his own privileged upbringing, he added: "Well my life's been pretty up and down since then, believe you me, it's not been a seamless transition."
He said the political elite were like "cardboard cut-outs", whereas he was "a bit like Marmite".
Panellists on the ITV daytime show also quizzed him about views on women in the workplace, which he responded to by saying that some gender inequality was a "fact of life".
He said: "If you're a doctor, a lawyer, a researcher... you're a woman, you have a baby, you take six months of a year off, you come back, you're not disadvantaged at all in that job.
"But there are other jobs in which if you take six months off and come back you find yourself actually behind the rest of the pack and earning less money.
"And that is a fact of life, it's difficult to change that. There are changes, there are now a million men who actually opt to stay at home and bring the kids up, so there are some quite big changes that are taking place."
