Shilpa Shetty finds British Prime Minister Tony Blair “very, very sweet” who praised her for her conduct during Celebrity Big Brother.
After her seven-minute meeting with Blair, the actress, who is enjoying enviable popularity after being at the centre of a race row for weeks, said the Prime Minister had been “very, very sweet” and gave her a painting of the parliament building signed by himself and his wife Cherie.
“He said I carried myself with utmost dignity and that he was sorry for what I went through in the (Big Brother) house,” Shetty said. Earlier, she watched the Prime Minister’s Question Hour.

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NRI Labour MP Keith Vaz had raised the issue of treatment meted out to Shilpa in the House of Commons after it grabbed headlines.
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