Irish Eurovision band sack team member for saying a male rapist is not a woman

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Ian Banham - the creative director for the Irish Eurovision Song has been sacked by the other band members because he wrote a tweet calling out the press for referring to a male rapist as a ‘she’.

The band have issued this statement:

Wild Youth is a band that stands for unity and kindness. Our song represents our beliefs as a band. We have cut all ties with lan Banham and will not have him on or near our team or Eurovison journey. We are so sorry for anyone offended by his comments.

They are in effect sacking their band mate and they defending a rapist’s right to be called she’ and they say they stand for ‘kindness’.
There is a backlash, I wonder how much support they will get for this.

https://twitter.com/bandwildyouth/status/1650833255266934784?s=46&t=KoykWa-IFitZMrteWP2pKA

TooBigForMyBoots · Today 10:48
Watched them last night. Did their new creative director decide to teach them a lesson? The song was OK. The costumes and performance were awful

The song was quite Coco-cola-ish, catchy and emotive, but a but dated perhaps.

Yes the costume was awful, tacky in an un creative way, and didn’t suit him. He looked neither wild nor youthful, a a bit like Elvis when he was beginning to look not so well.

Would that be camel toe?

Dromedary, with those bollocks, surely?

😂

This photo looks less like a camel toe and more like he's got his head on backwards.

Like a sparkly version of the Exorcist.

I thought he was trying far too hard to be Harry Styles and court the alphabet crowd. Where was the originality? I don't rate Styles but it was basically ripping off another artist, with a mediocre song.
Shamelessly derivative.

Omg that's too funny. As is the infantile strop at not qualifying. Their faces were a picture last night

Like a sparkly version of the Exorcist.

Dying 🤣🤣🤣

Like a sparkly version of the Exorcist.

Brilliant!

Had to be done.

that's just his mam making him eat his greens, surely? And him having a wee tantrum because he's in his special sparkly onesie and doesn't want em.

Cripes, though. Where IS it?

The song was average. The main problem was the singer. Arrogant for zero reason, horrible nasally voice. Bye.

Cripes, though. Where IS it?

I'd hate to think.

IcakethereforeIam · Today 18:59
Had to be done.
(The 🤮 you added to the photo of him.)
😆

Who is ‘they’? It was a public vote across Europe. Or is he referring to an individual ‘they’?

Note to the Wild Youf blokes:

You funny ladies

No, it was a big, fat pile of shite, one of the worst songs Ireland has sent in the last ten years, and that's saying a lot.

Bunch of bad losers, their mammies need to smack them on the arse and tell them to be more gracious in defeat. God knows the UK has had some Eurovision humiliations, but on the whole, the acts kept smiling gamely through their misery!

Yowl It, Duh! More like.