Joe Lycett shreds £10,000 in protest over Beckham’s controversial Qatar World Cup deal

[PrincessJanet]

He actually did it!

I don't think Lycett us nasty but, yes, you couldn't shame Beckham into doing anything. He has no shame. He stood back and let his wife take the main load of stick for what happened with Rebecca Loos.

@PrincessJanet has it exactly on the nose

Exactly this.

Has beckham really been paid £150million? Gobsmacked!

what a twat

Stupid man. If it's true. Plenty of people could have benefitted from the money he didn't want.

Stupid stupid man. Except that he's not, stupid that is.

Can't have been that hard to think of a newsworthy awareness raising idea that would benefit people who desperately need help.

I can't see the point in the whole stunt tbh either.

Bad taste to shred money whilst people are struggling so much.

Yes it gets people talking, but it will be short lived and forgotten about soon enough. And plenty of people will be upset by the waste of so much money.

Donating the money would be more beneficial to the people JL claims to support but it wouldn't have had the same publicity for JL.

David Beckham was never going to respond in the way JL wanted him too. I am sure Joe Lycett knew that he was never going to respond.

Also, DB isn't the only person benefited from the World Cup being in Qatar, nor the only person spending/giving their money to Qatar due to the football. FIFA, every player, every celebrity involved, every TV and radio station covering the world cup, anyone who flies over there to watch, anyone watching the matches from afar via TV/listening via radio, anyone buying any of the merchandise, etc.

Anyone watching is in some small way supporting the World Cup and its decision to be played over in Qatar.

I suspect it is nothing more than a stunt and wasn't real money anyway - let's hope so.

Do you see that shredding it makes the point far more than donating it a charity would?

I don’t know. I read about Peter T in the news a few days ago. I only heard about JL on here 🤷‍♀️

Haha. Good point @Jobsagoodun1 . You can lose perspective on here! I need to get out more.

Bad taste to shred money whilst people are struggling so much.

Again. Isn’t it more bad taste to accept £150m to promote the Qatar World Cup and all of the associated deaths, beatings and injustices?

they are both idiots. Like most celebrities and notable people we stupidly put them on pedestals and listen to them when they try lecture on anything outside their skill set.

remember when all the celebrities bought land in the middle of where Heathrow’s third run way was going? They were so vocal about their righteousness, built an orchard and then they sold it on to greenpeace who sold it back to the original landlord for £1 and all the trees rotted and died. I haven’t a clue what’s happened to it now.

LOL WHAT. Who the hell are you you condescending twerp.

Maybe you’re too ‘hard of understanding’ to recognise a false dichotomy when you use one. Or an ad hominem sneer. And clearly lack the emotional intelligence to disagree with courtesy (or indeed even with an argument).

A massive billboard in London could cost thousands. If you hire a PR company as well... JL's 10k looks cheap for the publicity and as a bonus, no ad company twats get the money. Win: win.

As for the typical total silence about women's rights from everyone, it's instructive. We're not actually humans, not really, not to many.

Only if its a clever stunt to make everyone think it's for real. Otherwise he's just a self absorbed empty-gestured cunt

They’re two independent scenarios. You can think both are not good.

It’d be a meaningful comparison if those were the two choices available to JL and he personally chose the money burning rather than the £150m.

Otherwise it’s just ‘whataboutism’ 🤷🏻

Think his intentions were good but he could have chosen a better way to make the point. He’s normally a bit sharper.

I remember KLF burning a million in the 80s. I forget the whole story about that.

@randomusername666 I think it's definitely for real. Anything I've watched with him suggests it would be, he's straight up in how he approaches these things.

@Holymackerelhead I think you have a good point but what would you have suggested he did as an alternative? I think what he's doing is pretty hard hitting.

Well shame on him, making a point at the expense of others. His actions will make fuck all difference to the people he's trying to make his point about

Exactly what I was thinking, @UWhatNow. Hugely insensitive. Just think what food banks and energy charities could have done with that money.

Each as bad as each other. Twats.

Just because one thing might be considered bad taste it doesn't mean another can't be as well.

Two wrongs don't make a right and all that.

I can't believe all the holier than thou responses. It's 12 years since Qatar were awarded the World Cup. There was outrage then, but not from some of the people objecting now. People have carried on holidaying in the Middle East. Flying on Qatar Airways. Shopping in Harrods. And people will watch the World Cup matches, especially if England or Wales do well. Token politics and posturing, and envy.

David Beckham should get pissed up on Budweiser wrap himself in a rainbow flag and then streak on the pitch to atone for his greedy sins.