Joe Lycett has appeared to shred £10,000 after David Beckham didn't respond to his ultimatum to pull out of his role as a Qatar ambassador.
The comic set the former England footballer a deadline of midday on November 20 to take action after it was reported Beckham had signed a £10 million deal with the Fifa World Cup hosts. The contest kicked yesterday in Qatar – where homosexuality is still illegal and anyone found participating in same-sex sexual activity can be punished with up to seven years in prison.
Lycett offered to donate £10,000 of his own money to LGBTQ+ charities if Beckham ended the sponsorship before the tournament started, and if not he said he would livestream himself shredding the money along with Beckham’s “status as gay icon”. Appearing to stand by his decision, the Birmingham-born comedian videoed himself on a Twitch stream wearing a rainbow-layered tulle outfit and placed wads of what appeared to be cash into an industrial shredder, but it was not clear if the banknotes were genuine money.
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