Not true.

No bloke would have him.

Anyway, I blame school teachers in Nottinghamshire. They used to teach you to aspire to flicking Vs at the peasants, getting out of the pit at the earliest opportunity and getting out of the bath for a jimmy.

Hobnobs never took off here in dirty rotten stinking capitalist land. We prefer the raj inspired predilection for tiffin don't 'cha know?