Voices: Eddie Izzard’s Soccer Aid message has been deliberately ignored by those who’d rather rant about gender
13.06.2022 - 15:17
/ msn.com
Eddie Izzard,” read one rant on Twitter following the star’s appearance on TV this year for Soccer Aid. Certain fans even accused Izzard of ‘jumping on a fashionable trans bandwagon’ “I used to LOVE the man. As a non-conforming woman, he made space for me in the world by being himself.
I respected him SO much. I’ll never understand how he could betray women in this way. ”You read that right – “disappointed” and “betrayed”.
Disappointed, betrayed. . .
after the comedian took part in ITV’s Who Wants To Be A Millionaire alongside Jeremy Clarkson and fellow comic Omid Djalili, to try to win a million pounds for Unicef, and separately broadcasted a poignant plea about saving children in Yemen. Sorry, what?In the latter example, the three minute video sees Izzard introduce viewers to Raghad, a young girl, and her story of living in conflict. Izzard, who was born there, prefaces the segment with the words: “I was born in Yemen.
And I just want to say, that the people who live there are real, human people like you and me, who – through no fault of their own – find themselves in the middle of this hellish situation. It’s got so bad now that Yemen is often described as ‘the worst place on earth to be a child’. Children are always the worst affected by war.
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