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Rupert Everett is sorry

By Stone Martindale Jun 10, 2008, 2:50 GMT

Rupert Everett, 49, is sorry for his "wimp" British soldier remarks made in The Sunday Telegraph. Rupert Everett - great whirlwind pr blitz in the last few days...EPA/DANIEL DEME

Rupert Everett - great whirlwind pr blitz in the last few days...EPA/DANIEL DEMEThe actor was promoting his TV movie, The Victorian Sex Explorer, in which he plays the explorer Sir Richard Burton. when he made the statement: "In Burton's day they were itching to get into the fray. Now it is the opposite. They are always whining about the dangers of being killed. Oh my God, they are such wimps now!"...The whole point of being in the Army is going to war and getting yourself blown up. That and p---ing on prisoners. Yet we all get shocked by Abu Ghraib."Today he had his mea culpa moment in the Telegraph, and apologized "without reserve" to the "many in this country, and hundreds and thousands of others across the world who have lost their brothers and sisters, their fathers and mothers to the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and all the countless others".He claims he was comparing todays casualties to the Victorian ones: "I compared his longing to get into battle to the way we engage in war today. Then death was glorious. Today it is what it really is. Each and every death is a terrible tragic loss."