London, Dec. 12 (AFP): Supermodel Naomi Campbell was acclaimed for nonsense after winning the plain English campaign’s annual “foot in mouth” prize.

The London-born catwalk star scooped this year’s award yesterday for her patriotic observation on British cuisine: “I love England, especially the food. There’s nothing I like more than a lovely bowl of pasta.”

Campbell beat Wales’s first minister Rhodri Morgan to the dubious honour of the year’s best example of mixed metaphor, mangled syntax or plain stupidity, robbing him of a hat-trick of wins.

The Labour party politician said in a Welsh assembly debate: “But obviously, the issue is that if you had another £450 million from somewhere else, you have got another £450 million, but what does that tell you? That is like saying, if my auntie was a bloke, she would be my uncle.”

Former England cricketer Geoffrey Boycott got two nominations while US President George W. Bush chipped in with one.

Boycott, now a commentator, mused that “the proof of the pudding is at the end of the day” and “I’ll cross that chestnut when I come to it”.