Craig David: Bo’ Selecta ‘humiliated me’, was racist and Leigh Francis needs to be accountable
accent on the show and his character had a colostomy bag and a pet kestrel called Kes, a refernce to Ken Loach’s 1969 film of the same name.“It felt like a vendetta and when it got a following, it became something that affected me.
“People would shout at me on the street and I felt the same feeling I had when I was bullied at school. Leigh Francis had normalised bullying by making it comedy.”“When he put blackface on, that was being racist.”“We can all apologise when on the back foot,” he said.“The moment of expressing his apology seemed very coincidentally timed. Has he reached out to any of the people he did on his show? He hasn’t reached out to me.
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