Sean Lock appeared to make his feelings about David Walliams and Russell Brand clear on television in the years before his death.
Sean Lock made his feelings about David Walliams and Russell Brand clear on television in the years before his death with many clips now doing the rounds on social media.
The late comedian, who died in 2021 at the age of 58 following a battle with cancer, spoke out about both comedians in the years before several allegations against them came to light.
Earlier this week, Brand was sentenced to 10 and a half years behind bars for rape and sexual assault whilst Walliams has been the subject of a joint investigation by the Guardian and ITV News that has seen him accused of allegedly using his status as a celebrity to prey on vulnerable teenagers and young women for sex. He has denied all allegations of wrongdoing.
Now, as the news continues to develop on just what was known about each celebrity before now, an unearthed clip of Sean taking aim at Brand in 2014 has emerged.
During an episode of 8 out of 10 Cats, Sean said about Brand: “Probably the reason I hate him so much is that I am a dad, and I have this fear that one day my daughters will bring something like that home. And he will come in and go so, ‘Oh such pleasure to be in your charming abode…'”
Five years earlier, Sean had reacted in horror to a joke made by Walliams following the death of Michael Jackson, who had admitted to sharing his bed with children.
Walliams said: “Have you heard Michael Jackson is dead?” When Jimmy Carr said yes, the Little Britain star joked: “If it is wrong to share your bed with 13-year-old boys then lock me up and throw away the key.”
Some audience members laughed, but Sean didn’t join in, being seen in a clip looking blankly ahead during the routine, rather than at Walliams.
During his rant about Brand, Lock claimed that the comedian had “back-pedalled so much” from his days when he would encourage people to avoid polling stations and question who one was supposed to vote for.
He added: “So if you reduce that to what he is actually saying, he is saying what everybody says on every bus stop: ‘Huh politicians. What are they like hey? How did that lot get in, bloody hell.”
Spice Girl Melanie C was on Sean’s team at the time and she seemed to side with Brand as she wondered how things would ever change unless we come together as a whole.
Sean added: “Him saying stuff to people who are disaffected already and are not engaged with the political process and don’t vote is the most moronic, self-serving, pathetic bit of attention-seeking w*** that has ever been spewed out of a moron’s f***ing mouth in history.”
Reacting to the resurfacing of the clips, one social media user wrote: “I love the timeline for reminding me how much Sean Lock hated both Russell Brand and David Walliams.”
Walliams denies any wrongdoing and said he’s ‘devastated’ by the claims. He sent a letter to journalists working on this investigation and wrote: “Looking back, I realise that at times I behaved thoughtlessly towards other people I had casual sexual relationships with.“I realise I did not always take people’s feelings properly into account. That is something I regret. And whilst a power imbalance is inevitable when one party is famous, abusing that power is something else entirely and it is something that I never did.”He added: “I am not a sexual predator. I have not broken the law, but I am devastated that some of the women I met 10 to 20 years ago have now expressed hurt or anger towards me.”
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