'Jonnie Marbles' Comes Clean on Murdoch Pie Attack

'Simply put, I did it for all the people who couldn't'

Jonathan May-Bowles, a.k.a. “Jonnie Marbles,” caused a ruckus during Rupert Murdoch’s testimony before a parliamentary committee yesterday, when he tried to throw a shaving cream pie at the media baron (and was thwarted by his wife, Wendi) shortly after tweeting, “It is a far better thing that I do now than I have ever done before #splat.”

Today, May-Bowles penned a column for the Guardian, in which he attempted to defend his actions. “I didn't do it because I wanted more Twitter followers,” he wrote.

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