Saturday, 1 November 2008

Alan Carr labels town racist and homophobic

Comedian slags off residents of Maidstone

Alan Carr presents Channel 4 show Celebrity Ding Dong

Alan Carr has upset Maidstone residents by labelling them racist and homophobic.

The gay comedian, 32, says his stand-up routines didn't go down well in the Kent town.

‘They hated me,’ he tells The Sun. ‘I never lasted more than 7 minutes. It was full of homophobic narrow-minded morons.

‘And it wasn't just me. If you were black or Asian, you got racist abuse. If you were a woman you got, "Show us your tits".’

But The Sunday Night Project host says he’d get away with promoting his book Look Who It Is! in Maidstone ‘because half the people there can’t read'.

MP for Maidstone and The Weald, Anne Widdecombe, has responded to the comic’s outburst.

‘He is talking complete rot,’ she says. ‘We have very high standards of behaviour and beliefs in Maidstone and it is obvious from his comments that he fails to meet them.'