to think that Eddie Izzard is

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just another rich person trying to persuade poor people to give their hard earned money to other poor people? I've just seen him on one of these tv ads guilt tripping people into donating to a worthy cause. Whilst I can understand and sympathise with the people who need money, I can't help but think it would be better if the said Eddie Izzard put his hand in his own pocket first. rather than flouncing around in full make up and nail varnish trying to be a politician

I know - I'm totally U, aren't I?

I would imagine for many celebs they get asked 'could you just lend your voice to the campaign?' or 'would you mind lending you name to the advert?'. So either they say 'no' and face the consequences of that (which I'm sure they have to do frequently) or they take a bit of interested and deem it to be a valid cause and say 'sure, if it get people talking about the issue and I can help, I'll do that'.

Not really crime of the century.

So if I fronted a charity advert, that would make thousands of people put their hands in their pockets would it?

Highly doubt it.

TornFromTheInside yes I see that point but I do feel sad we need a 'Celeb' face for a series fund raising activity.

Yes, it's a sad state of affairs, but it's very much a Western culture thing and happening elsewhere too now. Stick a celeb on the front of a newpaper, or a magazine and it will sell more.
It says more about us than it does about the celebs really.

*So if I fronted a charity advert, that would make thousands of people put their hands in their pockets would it?

Highly doubt it.*

Yes, it would and it does. Never as much as they would like, but more than not doing so.
It's selling a cause - just like selling a product and celebrity endorsement works. Sad, but true.

I think rich people should give a lot more than they do. They can afford it, poor people can't.

I was told by a charity that rang me once that they deliberately target people in poor neighbourhoods because poor people are more like to donate. That is disgusting behaviour and I didn't donate.

Anyway, we shouldn't have to depend on charities to do the things that need doing, we should sort out our problems through the tax system and tax the rich properly.

I don't care one bit about gender variance. However, I do object to the misogyny ('woman' is a collection of sex stereotypes) and homophobia (male 'lesbians' FGS), that transgenderism promotes. Very disappointed to see Eddie jump on this particular bandwagon. I used to admire him in his action transvestite days.

However, can't knock his charity work. Especially the marathons.

because a vocal group on Mumsnet will leap at any chance to attack someone's gender variance

No no, don’t make false claims please. He’s not being ‘attacked’. This is a discussion about a celebrity and wannabe politician. He is being discussed and criticised for actions which some find misogynistic and, frankly, creepy.

I haven't read all the comments, but if it's the advert I think it is, then it is probably because it means something to him personally since he was born in Yemen (which is what the money is being raised for).

Good point about Yemen.

I think rich people should give a lot more than they do. They can afford it, poor people can't.

Who determines rich though?
If you neighbours have a posh car should they pay more to charity? and how do we know they don't?
I do understand when we see multimillionaires it's easy to think 'you could help more' but in truth, we don't know how much they already give, and where do we draw the line? if you live in a 100K home is that rich, is 500K the rich level? or 5 Million?...

Eddie Izzard does lots of work personally helping at several local charities and local organisations in the small town that my friends live in and that he lived local to

This won't be in the rags like daily fail but he does it in a quiet local way

Of all the celebs out there, I wouldn't knock Eddie Izzard when it comes to raising money for charity. That is quite odd.

He is a colossal bellend though and that story about how victimised he was by the 13 year old girls who didn't want him in their toilet, was the final straw really. What a dick.

He is a screaming narcissist. I hate all celeb fundraising but I find his particularly hard to stomach when he has enjoyed terrorising teenage girls in women's toilets.

I'm sure if he had made big donations, we would have heard about it

Not necessarily. And sometimes it's not always about what money you put in yourself but what time you put in yourself. Jeremy Beadle used to spend a helluva lot of his time raising money for charities, going here there and everywhere giving his time, running quizzes, and although he got an MBE for services to charity a few years before he died, just how much he did only really came out after he died. It's thought that his efforts results in something like £100 million over 25 years and that in addition to doing all the stuff he almost certainly must have put in some serious money himself.

Top bloke.

He is glorious

His comments about being a male lesbian date back to 1999, and were him explaining where he fits on the sex/ sexuality grid.

He wss one of the first openly transvestite people in public and as such broke down much ignorance as to what it was to be a transvestite and made life easier for others.

He nearly broke his entire body in a charitable endeavour so op has picked the wrong stick there to try and beat him with

Are you sure that transvestite is what he currently identifies as? I don’t think it is.

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He nearly exploded his kidneys?

Is this the technical term????

Who the hell is TW?

"Cause if you're a transvestite, you're actually a male tomboy, that's where the sexuality is. Yeah, it's not drag queen, no; gay men have got that covered. This is male tomboy, and people do get that mixed up, they put transvestite there - no no no no! Little bit of a crowbar separation, thank you! And gay men, I think, would agree. It's male lesbian, that's really where it is, ok? Because… it's true! ‘Cause most transvestites fancy girls, fancy women. So that's where it is."

Thats the full quote. Explaining the difference between being a transvestite and a drag queen

I lost all respect for him when he supported that bellend Murphy during the Scottish referendum. Nothing but pure mince came out of his gob.

I dunno, maybe Terry Wogan? I've been reading too much Feminist chat stuff because I initially thought 'transwoman'