It may be that Danny Dyer’s finest work will always be his 2018 diatribe on Good Evening Britain, asking pertinent questions about the approach of David Cameron to the aftermath of the Brexit referendum – or “this mad riddle”, as he called it. “So what’s happened to that twat David Cameron, who called it on?” Dyer asked the presenter Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid, sitting alongside fellow guests Jeremy Corbyn and Pamela Anderson. “How comes he can scuttle off? … Where is he? He’s in Europe, in Nice, with his trotters up, yeah – where is the geezer? I think he should be held to account for it … Twat.”
It seemed, especially the final “twat”, to come from the heart. If it didn’t, then the commitment to the Danny Dyer brand – unbroken then for 20 years, since his breakthrough hardman role in 1999’s Human Traffic – is in itself an achievement.
