Cherie Blair is rather proud of her upcoming appearance as one of the celebrity teachers on Jamie Oliver’s Channel 4 series Jamie’s Dream School

 Cherie Blair is rather proud of her upcoming appearance as one of the celebrity teachers on Jamie Oliver’s Channel 4 series Jamie’s Dream School.

So proud, in fact, that even though her debut on the show is still more than a week off, she has already uploaded pre-edited footage of her starring role onto her self-congratulatory personal website.

However, there are certain important aspects of the business of teaching a group of problem teenagers that, one suspects, Cherie, a barrister, has not quite got her head around.

Take, for example, a recent piece she wrote for The Times to promote her appearance — which, again, she has proudly re-published on her website.

Rather thoughtlessly, she crassly comments in the article that she suspects one of the eight girls she taught on the programme — some of whom are as young as 16 — might be gay.

And then there are Mrs Blair’s rather disastrous attempts to maintain order among the pupils, all of whom have failed their GCSEs, as she tries to teach them about human rights.

On film, a black boy in her class apparently takes exception to Cherie addressing him as ‘Banana’ and, moments later, storms out of the lesson.

Indeed, it has to be said that outing one of your students as possibly being gay in the national media, and inadvertently using highly unfortunate, if unintended, racial stereotyping in the classroom might, in other circumstances, risk your average teacher being instantly disciplined for a breach of the Human Rights laws — of which Cherie is such an avid proponent.

But then, as we know, Cherie is often disposed to opening her mouth and putting her size five-and-a-half foot in it.