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British funnyman Ricky Gervais again lashed out at “multi-millionaire celebs” in a new interview — for lecturing “normal nobodies” during the coronavirus outbreak. The 58-year-old targeted “Wonder Woman” actress Gal Gadot and a crew of other A-listers, such as Will Ferrell and Mark Ruffalo, for their viral cover of John Lennon’s “Imagine” released last month …
British funnyman Ricky Gervais again lashed out at “multi-millionaire celebs” in a new interview — for lecturing “normal nobodies” during the coronavirus outbreak.
The 58-year-old targeted “Wonder Woman” actress Gal Gadot and a crew of other A-listers, such as Will Ferrell and Mark Ruffalo, for their viral cover of John Lennon’s “Imagine” released last month in response to the crisis.
“That Imagine video, it’s not that bad, they’re probably very nice people,” Gervais said on BBC Radio 5, according to The Sun. “It was an awful rendition, but they might have been doing it for good reasons, to help these normal nobodies.”
“But they’re going, ‘My film’s coming up and I’m not on telly — I need to be in the public eye,’ not all of them but some of them,” he added. “You can see in their eye — ‘I could cry at the beauty of my personality, I’m just so beautiful for doing this’ and everyone sees that — we get it.”
As he did last week, Gervais also took aim at stars like Sam Smith, who have lamented being holed up in their mansions during coronavirus lockdowns.
“For a start, you won’t hear me complain — not when there’s [United Kingdom National Health Service] nurses doing 14 hours shifts — and frontline workers carrying on and risking their health,” he said. “I’m fine. Don’t worry about me … I go for walks on Hampstead Heath, and we’ve got a garden.”
He said that privileged superstars don’t have a right to preach to the general public during the crisis.
“There are people in high rise blocks with three kids — I can’t complain,” the comedian said. “This is why millionaires in their mansions with their gym and going for a swim can’t lecture people.”
“People are sick of being lectured, multi-millionaires telling them to clean out their coffee jar and put it in the right bin — they know those celebs are taking private jets to their private islands,” he added. “They are sick of it.”
Gervais has a well-documented history of attacking self-centered stars.
