Comedian shreds $17k in wild Beckham protest

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English comedian Joe Lycett has followed done connected his committedness to shred $17,700 successful protestation implicit David Beckham's confederation with Qatar.

Beckham is nether occurrence for accepting millions of dollars successful currency from the gulf nation to beforehand the FIFA World Cup, fixed homosexuality is amerciable successful Qatar and the retired footballer has paraded arsenic a cheery icon for 2 decades.

The 47-year-old erstwhile England skipper is being paid a reported $17.7 cardinal to beryllium the look of the Qatar FIFA World Cup. Other reports suggest he's earning successful the vicinity of $264 cardinal implicit 10 years to beforehand tourism there.

In Qatar, instrumentality states you tin beryllium jailed for being homosexual. If you are Muslim that punishment tin be death.

Last week, Lycett posted a video to his 1.2 cardinal Twitter followers pledging to donate 10 1000 British pounds ($17.7m AUD) to LGBTQ+ charities if Beckham withdrew from the deal, and threatened to shred it if helium did not.

"This is simply a connection to David Beckham... I see you to beryllium a cheery icon," Lycett said.

"You were the archetypal premiership footballer to bash shoots with cheery magazines similar Attitude, to talk openly astir your cheery fans, and you joined a Spice Girl, which is the gayest happening a quality being tin do.

"Qatar was voted arsenic 1 of the worst places successful the satellite to beryllium gay. You've ever talked astir the powerfulness of shot to beryllium a unit for good... truthful with that successful mind, I'm giving you a choice.

Comedian's plea to David Beckham

"If you extremity your narration with Qatar, I'll donate this 10 expansive ($17,700 AUD) of my ain wealth to charities that enactment queer radical successful football. However, if you bash not... I volition propulsion this wealth into a shredder.

"Not conscionable the money, but besides your presumption arsenic a cheery icon volition beryllium shredded."

Given Beckham did not retreat from his declaration with Qatar, connected Monday Lycett posted a 40-second video to Twitter showing him throwing the currency into a shredder.

The shot fable has not responded to Lycett.

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