When he turned up at a civic event he was mobbed by teenagers. The council leader praised him for putting the town of Consett on the map.
Trouble is, he is famous because he won the latest round of Big Brother.
To councillor John Ingham that merely meant he was "the least obnoxious of all the entrants". Ingham called the appointment a "waste of taxpayers' money". He also admitted he didn't watch Big Brother.
Other commentators did. Columnist Ross Brewster of the Cumbria News & Star declaimed that instead of celebrating the achievements of young people, making Hutton an ambassador was giving out the message that "we prefer the shameless and the brainless". It is a "message that booze and promiscuity are OK", that "morality and manners really are extinct", he despaired.
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