An 11-year-old student named Liam Scholes went to school dressed as Christian Grey from Fifty Shades of Grey, getting banned from the World Book Day celebrations taking place. His mother, Nicola Scholes, isn’t happy about it and supports her son's decision to dress as a character from the erotic book trilogy.
Nicola now says her son’s costume was more appropriate than his some of his fellow students and even the teacher’s costume at Greater Manchester’s Sale High School in the UK.
“It has been massively blown out of proportion. It was meant as a laugh and tongue-in-cheek,” she told BBC Live 5 after her son was excluded from photographs since his costume was deemed “inappropriate.”
He wore a grey suit and carried a mask and cable ties, but he was told he should drop the props and go as James Bond instead.
Nicola responded of Bond, “[he] was a promiscuous character who kills people. Personally, I'm more offended by a murderer."
She went on to say the teacher dressed up as a “serial killer" (Dexter) and other kids brought toy guns to dress as American Sniper’s Chris Kyle, which she deemed more inappropriate than Christian Grey.
Nicola also told Manchester Evening News, “The cable ties were tiny and not enough to do anything with them. We didn’t think there would be a problem.”