Elton John hits back at social media comments over ‘dirty’ kitchen video

Elton John responded to social media comments about his "dirty" kitchen by posting a video showing him cleaning his oven. Photo / Getty Images

Sir Elton John has hit back at social media comments about his “dirty” kitchen.

The music legend took to Instagram to show how serious he takes cleanliness after users criticised the dirt on his oven after he shared a video at his home set to his classic festive hit Step Into Christmas.

In the video, captioned “Step Into Christmas PSA”, John said: “Hello people, it’s Elton John here. A couple of weeks ago, I did some videos in this kitchen about how crazy Step Into Christmas was driving me, and it got an incredible response, which I was quite startled about.

“A lot of the response was kind of negative about how dirty my oven was. My oven door, my oven window. And I can assure you, I don’t have anything dirty in this house. I’ve never had anything dirty. I’m not a dirty person.”

The Tiny Dancer hitmaker said: “To prove I don’t have anything that’s dirty, I’m going to do something to show you.”

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Responding to the comment, “Nice to see even Elton’s oven needs cleaning before Christmas. My oven glass needs an oven doctor too”, the 78-year-old singer posted a clip of himself scrubbing inside the oven with a pair of pink cleaning gloves.

He wrote: “Don’t think your comments go unnoticed.”

John lost the sight in his right eye after contracting an infection in France last year and admits it has been a “challenging” period since.

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The Sacrifice artist told Variety: “It’s been devastating. Because I lost my right eye and my left eye’s not so good, the last 15 months have been challenging for me because I haven’t been able to see anything, watch anything, read anything.

“I’ve had the most incredible life, and there is hope. I’ve just gotta be patient that someday science will help me with this one. Once they help me with this one, I’ll be fine.

“It’s exactly like the Aids situation. You mustn’t give up hope, you must be stoic, you must be strong and you must always try and batter the door down to try and improve things.”

John’s husband David Furnish is optimistic a scientific breakthrough could be beneficial for the star.

He said: “We’ve been doing some treatments and there’s been some improvements in his left eye, which is really good, and we’re continuing to explore and getting a lot of outreach from a lot of doctors who want to help and support. Because there’s damage to the retina in his right eye, retinas don’t heal naturally, so it’s an area of emerging science.

“But things are changing really quickly. What AI is doing for medicine and science alone is astonishing. And there’s all kinds of interesting new theories and breakthroughs, and they can process the data and do the trials a lot more quickly than they could before.”