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Danny Dyer brands PM Keir Starmer 'no leader' in foul-mouthed rant and declares 'real working class people' should be running the country - after revealing his own children travel everywhere in a £200k Bentley
Danny Dyer brands PM Keir Starmer 'no leader' in foul-mouthed rant and declares 'real working class people' should be running the country - after revealing his own children travel everywhere in a £200k Bentley

Daily Mail​

time13 hours ago

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Danny Dyer brands PM Keir Starmer 'no leader' in foul-mouthed rant and declares 'real working class people' should be running the country - after revealing his own children travel everywhere in a £200k Bentley

Danny Dyer has furiously branded Prime Minister Keir Starmer 'no leader' and a 'f*****g non-entity' in a foul-mouthed rant. The actor, 47, slammed the leader of the Labour party and said the country should be run by 'real working class people' not 'middle-class pretenders'. He told The Telegraph:'[Kier] a f****** non-entity. I feel sorry for the people when he goes to a factory and they put these poor people behind him and you can tell they all hate his guts'. 'We need a leader. He's not a leader. I don't know what the f*** he is. He's only in power because the Tories were such c****'. He added: 'Where's the working-class people? They should be running our country, not people pretending they're working class because they've had a pint in a pub'. It comes after Danny said that despite being 'proudly working class' himself, his kids have never travelled on a bus and always go 'door to door' in a £200K Bentley. Earlier this year the former EastEnders star got a grilling about claims he sent his son to private school in ITV 's show The Assembly. Each episode saw a different celebrity face questions from a group of autistic, neurodivergent and learning disabled people, which forced them to cast aside their media training, with no topic off limits. Also questioned were ex Match Of The Day presenter Gary Lineker, 64, Doctor Who star David Tennant, 54, and ex-Little Mix singer Jade Thirlwall, 32. Danny was asked by one of the interviewers: 'How working class are you to send your son to a private school?'. To which he responded: 'I am a working-class kid and I am very proud of my roots. We moved to a better place where we could bring the children up. 'I have put my children in a private school, but now they're not street wise. I don't regret it but there's a part of me that I wish I could instil a little bit of knowing what it's like to struggle into them. 'But like anyone, if you have kids you want to give them everything you can and it can backfire on you slightly, because now, they get driven around in a Bentley. I've got a Bentley. I walked everywhere as a kid or got a bus. 'My kids have never been on a bus, they don't have to. Because they get driven door to door in a Bentley.' Danny , who hails from east London, and his wife Joanne have three children – Sunnie, 18, Arty, 11, and reality star Dani, 28, who won the fourth series of ITV dating show Love Island. He revealed earlier this March that they were going to send his son to a private school in Chigwell. Asked on The Assembly show how he felt about her going on the dating show and being a nepo baby, he responded: 'She is but by default and I think that's why she got on the show. 'I never wanted her to do it because I heard people have sex on that show. As a father I don't want to see any of that. She didn't tell me until the last minute and she just went. She was such a beautiful human being on it. So actually, it worked out really well with her. She was working in a pub before that. 'She is a nepo baby but what's wrong with that?.' Meanwhile Danny recently teased season two of smash hit series Rivals and lifted the lid on his career reinvention since his EastEnders exit in 2022. The star, who plays Freddie Jones in the saucy Disney+ show, reassured fans that they have no need to worry about the new instalment failing to live up to its predecessor. He told Radio Times: 'I can't reveal much, but what I will say is that we've got no issues with the old second album syndrome. I've been blessed with a lovely character. He's not the lead and he doesn't need to be the lead, same as Katherine [Parkinson who plays love interest, Lizzie Vereker]'. Danny, who won a BAFTA earlier this year for Sky comedy Mr Bigstuff, also revealed there would be a 'bit more' of his character's love life in the new episodes. He also spoke about his other roles including the sole character in a new movie, which he said had first been offered to Oscar winner Sir Gary Oldman, 67. He told the publication: 'Fifteen pages of dialogue a day. Crazy. We shot it in Dublin. I just sat in the hotel room with the script. Went crazy by the end. I believe they went to Gary Oldman first. They told me he wanted £2 million just to read it'. 'But I was next in line, which I'm chuffed with. If you go Gary Oldman and I'm next, it's because I'm obviously cheaper. I'm happy to be a cheaper version of Gary Oldman.' MailOnline have contacted Gary Oldman's representatives for comment. Alongside the interview Danny looked dapper in a suit as he posed for a fun shoot in a pub with Mr Bigstuff co-star and creator Ryan Sampson. Danny starred as Mick Carter in the BBC soap for nine years, earning a whopping quarter of a million pounds a year at the height of his stint, before his explosive exit on Christmas Day 2022.

Danny Dyer reveals ‘moment of clarity' he experienced in en-suite toilet
Danny Dyer reveals ‘moment of clarity' he experienced in en-suite toilet

The Independent

timea day ago

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Danny Dyer reveals ‘moment of clarity' he experienced in en-suite toilet

Danny Dyer revealed that a moment struggling to put on a pair of jeans en-suite toilet after a party convinced him to check into a rehab clinic. He described this incident as a 'moment of clarity,' fearing he was 'going to die' due to his uncontrolled drinking and drug habit. Speaking to The Telegraph, Dyer said he no longer uses drugs but still enjoys beer and has taken up meditation, having found a better balance in his life. He previously disclosed that his wife, Joanne Mas, controls their finances after she kicked him out in 2000 due to his infidelity and drug use. Dyer acknowledged putting his wife 'through a lot of s***' when he became famous, crediting her with keeping him grounded. Danny Dyer says an 'odd' incident with a pair of jeans made him 'sort his life out'

Danny Dyer says an ‘odd' incident with a pair of jeans made him ‘sort his life out'
Danny Dyer says an ‘odd' incident with a pair of jeans made him ‘sort his life out'

The Independent

timea day ago

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  • The Independent

Danny Dyer says an ‘odd' incident with a pair of jeans made him ‘sort his life out'

The Mr Bigstuff actor won three National Television Awards between 2015 and 2019 for his role as Mick Carter in EastEnders. Despite the success of the period, the 47-year-old said that his drinking and drug habit had gotten out of control. He says that he realised his substance use had gone too far when, after a party, he struggled to get on a pair of jeans while in an en-suite toilet. Speaking to The Telegraph, Dyer said that, despite its randomness, the incident was a 'moment of clarity' for him. 'It's an odd story, but that was my moment of going, 'Oh God, you've got to sort your life out, you're going to die,'' he explained. 'Of all the things that had happened, all the weird moments, that was the moment.' Dyer added that while he doesn't do drugs anymore, he still enjoys a beer and has taken up meditation. 'We're only on this earth once,' said the Human Traffic star. 'You need to experience as much stuff as you can and squeeze as much joy out of it as you can, and not beat yourself up too much. I've got a good balance at the moment. It took a long time to get there.' Earlier this year, Dyer opened up about why his wife, Joanne Mas, has total control of their finances. Speaking on the ITV series, The Assembly, Dyer said that he was kicked out of his home in 2000 after it was discovered that he had been unfaithful. The Rivals star said that Mas 'controls everything now.' He continued: 'Yes, she did kick me out because I was a p***k and she deserved better. Sometimes I would go out and get off my head, take drugs, and I wouldn't come home for three days. I had issues. I never wanted the party to end. She had every right to throw me out.' Last year, the actor said he had put his wife 'through a lot of s***' while speaking to Elizabeth Day on the How to Fail podcast. 'It f***ed my head up when I became really famous,' he said. 'I didn't quite know what to do with it and I suppose she stood by me for a lot of s*** and had to be very patient with me. The actor remarked: 'I didn't quite know who I was and I suppose she had to suffer all that on a national level. I love her with all my heart. You know, she challenges me every day. She's kept me very grounded. I'll tell you that now.'

Danny Dyer: ‘Working-class people should be running the country'
Danny Dyer: ‘Working-class people should be running the country'

Telegraph

timea day ago

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Danny Dyer: ‘Working-class people should be running the country'

Danny Dyer gets straight down to business, as he tends to. 'This is a huge year for me,' the actor says, relaxing into a large leather sofa in the East End office where he has just had his picture taken. 'The first six months have been incredibly emotional. My daughter Sunnie turned 18, so we had a big '80s-themed party. A couple of weeks after that, I won the Bafta. I didn't think I would win it. It's the first time I've been acknowledged really, so to actually win it, and win it for a comedy performance, for Mr Bigstuff, which is me going into territory I'm not known for, I was just so happy. 'And then, of course, my daughter getting married to the man of my dreams. It doesn't happen often. I'm sure there's many men who give away their daughters to arseholes. You can't choose who your kid falls in love with, but I think for the first time in history I'm more in love with him than she is.' At the end of May, Dyer's eldest daughter, Dani, 28, married Jarrod Bowen, the captain of West Ham United Football Club. For her father, an Irons fan since childhood, it was a dream come true. So how was the father of the bride's speech? 'I wanted to keep it light,' he says. 'So I said: 'Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, today's not about me, it's about this wonderful couple.' Then I go under the table and bring out my Bafta. I thought: 'Oh my God, is this narcissistic?' But the cheer it got… I needed to make people laugh, so that's what I did. The speech was written for me really because I alluded to me being more in love with him than her. Then I got us all to stand up and sing 'Bowen's on fire and he's married Dani Dyer' [an updated take on a West Ham football chant]. So yeah, it's been an amazing start to the year. Big milestones, you know what I mean?' All that and he still found the time to promote Marching Powder, written and directed by his old friend Nick Love, a surprising success at the box office. If it was always possible that Dyer would get his dues, it has not always looked likely. He has been winning over different audiences, demographic by demographic, for 30 years. There were the ravers who loved his unforgettable film debut as Moff in Human Traffic (1999), and the football fans won over by his charming hooligans in Mean Machine (2001) or The Football Factory (2004). Then there was playwright Harold Pinter, the Nobel laureate, who saw in a gifted London lad an echo of himself, and the EastEnders viewers, who were treated to nearly a decade of Dyer's Mick Carter, the landlord of the Queen Vic, a geezer with a heart of gold. Last year, however, Dyer added the upper-middle classes – and US audiences – to his list, with his show-stealing turn as Freddie Jones in the Disney+ adaptation of Jilly Cooper's 1988 Cotswolds bonkbuster Rivals. Alongside Aidan Turner and Alex Hassell, more conventional heartthrobs, it was Dyer who won viewers over with his depiction of the self-made millionaire (with a heart of gold). The Telegraph said he brought a 'surprising sweetness' to the role, in a five-star review. 'The Jilly Cooper thing opens me up to middle- and upper-class people who never would have known about me before,' Dyer says. 'Earls and lords, I've noticed they know who I am now. Not that I hang out with a lot of them.' We meet while he is midway through filming the second series of Rivals, and his upper lip is covered in Freddie Jones's distinctive moustache, a thick Tom Selleck slug of a thing. Tall and broad, in person Dyer carries himself with the assurance of someone whose charisma has commanded every room he has been in for as long as he can remember. He speaks rapidly, sentences peppered with curses and rhyming slang. 'I've paid for my wedding whistle [and flute, suit] but not my trotters [shoes],' he explains to the stylist on the Telegraph photo shoot. Sunglasses are 'bins'. As far as I can tell, everyone he meets is charmed. The second series of Mr Bigstuff is out this week. Dyer plays the hard-living Lee, who comes to stay with his mild-mannered estranged brother Glen (Ryan Sampson, who writes the series). The role allows Dyer to make the most of his natural comic timing. 'There's a lot of love on that job,' he says. 'We really worked our bollocks off to try to create something that was slightly different, a bit punky, that has real heart to it even though it's funny as f—k.' Apart from his acting, millions more know Dyer for his public persona: drug-loving, pint-swilling cockney geezer who discovered, via an episode of Who Do You Think You Are?, that he was descended from Edward III; host of documentaries about UFOs and gangsters; defensive father of Dani when she appeared as a contestant on Love Island, ultimately winning; spokesman on the perils of toxic masculinity in a Channel 4 documentary; renowned critic of David Cameron having 'his trotters up' in the wake of the Brexit vote. At times, Danny Dyer the public figure has eclipsed Danny Dyer the actor. Dyer was born in 1977 in Custom House, east London, the eldest child of Antony Dyer, a painter and decorator, and Christine, and grew up on a council estate. Danny has said his full name is misspelt 'Danial' on his birth certificate because his father had been drinking before registering his son. He has a younger brother and sister. His parents split up when he was nine, after his mother discovered that his father had another family – he has two half-sisters, one five years younger and another 10 years younger. Dyer was always 'cheeky', in his description, with a talent for making people laugh. He was encouraged to act at an early age, but money was tight; he would jump the barriers to get the Tube to a drama school he went to in Chalk Farm. It was there, during his teens, that he was spotted by an agent who put him forward for a role in Prime Suspect 3, with Helen Mirren. He met his wife, Joanne Mas, when they were both 14. They finally married in 2016, but had their first child, Dani, in 1996 when Danny was just 18. He had to juggle his acting work with being a young father. After Prime Suspect he did a typical round of bit parts in big series, including A Touch of Frost, Soldier Soldier and The Bill, before his film break as Moff, the slacker son of a policeman, in Human Traffic. The film became an instant cult hit for its unmoralising depiction of young people living for the weekend, and Dyer was its breakout star. 'There's no training on how to be famous, and how do you stay grounded and authentic to yourself? Because you become a cartoon character. I know I did.' Fame in his early 20s had two powerful effects on Dyer's life. It was after meeting him at an audition that Harold Pinter recognised a raw talent, like him a boy from the East End finding success in a world dominated by the middle classes. Pinter cast Dyer in Celebration, a new play, in 2000, and a revival of No Man's Land the following year, as well as a revival of The Homecoming in 2008. 'We had a very interesting relationship,' he says. 'He wasn't in my life long enough, but I think he's always with me somehow. I don't know what that means, but higher powers and all that. I'm not religious, but I do feel like there's something guiding us through life.' Young and famous but not rich, Dyer found himself being offered endless opportunities to behave like Moff in real life – going on the piss, getting high, living it up – which he took up enthusiastically. 'I think I was always destined to end up in rehab,' he says. 'My first film was Human Traffic, which was a huge success, and I was the most hedonistic one in it. I loved drugs at the time. People wanted to take drugs with me so I got wrapped up in it. I went along with it.' Despite Pinter's imprimatur, Dyer's subsequent work failed to hit the same heights as Human Traffic. A couple of hooligan- and gangster-themed films in the early 2000s, including The Football Factory and The Business, cemented his image as a hard-living cockney. In 2000 Jo had temporarily kicked him out, draining the bank account and denying him access to their young daughter. (In a recent interview, he said Jo 'controls everything now'.) 'I started to get offered a lot of stuff and said yes far too much to stuff I shouldn't have said yes to,' he says. 'Bad films, and of course once they come out your stock lowers. I realised that. I was known as 'DVD Danny', which was detrimental. Where do you go after that? My profile was raised enough that I could do personal appearances in nightclubs, which was a whole career back then. But that fuels the drugs and drink. I went through a period of being a DJ. It's a recipe for disaster. Your doors are closing in the acting business and you think: 'How long can I stretch this out for?' But nightclubs were closing. It just stopped, and you think: 'What the f—k am I going to do now?'' With bailiffs at his door, he was saved in 2013 by EastEnders, which gave him regular work on one of the biggest programmes in the country. He was perfect as the gruff but lovable Mick Carter. By the time he married Jo in 2016, they'd added two more children, Sunnie and Arty (now 11). Dyer's performance won him three National Television Awards, in 2015, 2016 and 2019. It was after one of these parties that he realised his substance use was out of control, when he couldn't get his jeans on in his en-suite loo. 'It was my moment of clarity,' he says. 'It's an odd story, but that was my moment of going, 'Oh God, you've got to sort your life out, you're going to die.' Of all the things that had happened, all the weird moments, that was the moment.' He checked into rehab soon after. It took another visit to stick, but he is in a good place now. 'I'm in control of my life,' he says. 'I don't do drugs any more, but I love a nice cold pint outside in a beer garden.' He has taken up meditation, too. 'We're only on this earth once. You need to experience as much stuff as you can and squeeze as much joy out of it as you can, and not beat yourself up too much. I've got a good balance at the moment. It took a long time to get there.' The success of Rivals, the Bafta for Mr Bigstuff and his increasing acceptance by the establishment has meant a flurry of high-profile interviews, including Desert Island Discs and Louis Theroux 's podcast, in which Dyer has had to revisit the more difficult moments in his life. Most memorably, for ITV's The Assembly, broadcast in April, he was addressed by neurodivergent members of the public, who asked disarmingly frank questions. 'My dad just wasn't a very good dad,' he replied to one. 'He didn't know how to do it. He told me when I wasn't allowed to hold his hand any more. I was trying to cross the road, and I went to hold his hand and he went, 'No, we don't do that any more.'' By the end of the programme, Dyer was leading a guided meditation. 'Because things have been going so well I've been doing some quite heavy [interviews],' he says now. 'My worry is always upsetting my family. I've been very open about my life and talking about stuff that is important to me, but I don't want to embarrass my dad. He's one of my best mates now, but there was a whole period when he wasn't in my life. He left me. He was a bit… he had to have a few conversations after [ The Assembly ] aired. He was proud of me, but he remembers things slightly differently to me. In his old age he's opened up a lot. He's an old-school masculine man, born in the '50s. But now we talk, we cuddle and say 'I love you' to each other.' He is equally conscious of dragging Jo back through the most difficult parts of their relationship. 'I've tried to be aware of rolling my family members into my fame because they never asked for it,' he says. 'Especially with my wife, who I've put through a lot of s—t over the years, and I'd be f—ked without her, so I'm grateful she's the person she is. She ain't no f—king wallflower, let me tell you that. She humbles me every day. I wouldn't have had the career I've had without her. She was willing to sacrifice her career to bring up children, to let me try and be an actor and fail miserably, and then get a part and get us out of trouble. Me bringing up stuff I've done in the past is not nice for her, of course it ain't.' Dyer's articulacy and frankness, together with his background, have made him a kind of de facto spokesman on subjects far beyond acting: masculinity, addiction, mental health, working-class culture, politics. Seven years ago, a clip of him speaking on Good Evening Britain, where he was a guest alongside Jeremy Corbyn, went viral after he called David Cameron a 'twat' and accused him of being 'in Nice with his trotters up' leaving others to sort out the Brexit mess. Dyer had voted for Brexit, but felt the execution was disappointing. 'I just posed the question about what it was,' he says. 'What the f—k does Brexit actually mean? We're 10 years down the line. Have we left or not?' How does he feel about Keir Starmer? 'He's a f—king non-entity. I feel sorry for the people when he goes to a factory and they put these poor people behind him and you can tell they all hate his guts. We need a leader. He's not a leader. I don't know what the f—k he is. He's only in power because the Tories were such c—ts. 'Nobody in politics is likeable,' he adds. 'Where's the working-class people? They should be running our country, not people pretending they're working class because they've had a pint in a pub.' Now that Dyer finds himself in the unexpected position of being renowned enough to get projects green-lit on his own, he would like to help other working-class actors get a leg-up. 'What's important to me now is I try to do good, classy work, and if I've got the clout, to roll in as many young working-class people and give them some opportunities. Let's audition some kids who've never auditioned before, really get the raw talent, not necessarily Rada-trained kids.' He hopes there will be a third series of Mr Bigstuff, possibly more Rivals. He is in discussions for a play about his relationship with Pinter, provisionally called When Harry Met Danny. 'I think I'd want to play Harold,' he says. 'He always wanted me to do more theatre.' He thinks Pinter would be 'very proud' to see him today. In a career full of surprises, few are greater than the fact it took a Jilly Cooper adaptation – and nearly 30 years – for the wider world to wake up to the talent in Danny Dyer that Pinter had recognised at once. 'I'm grateful that I'm still able to ply my trade,' Dyer says. 'So many people do a couple of good things and disappear off the face of the earth, but I've managed to keep going. But God, I've had my dry spells and my spells of going, 'Oh my God, I'm never going to work again.' I've made some bad decisions. But at the moment it's all coming together.' He excuses himself. It's a glorious afternoon and he fancies a couple of pints in the sunshine.

Hit TV show The Assembly to return for a second series
Hit TV show The Assembly to return for a second series

South Wales Guardian

time2 days ago

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  • South Wales Guardian

Hit TV show The Assembly to return for a second series

The programme, which sees a group of inquisitive interviewers who are autistic, neurodivergent and/or learning disabled put questions to celebrities, was a big hit when the first series aired on ITV1 earlier this year. The names of the six new celebrities taking part are yet to be revealed, with the last series featuring Danny Dyer, David Tennant, Jade Thirlwall and Gary Lineker, and described as the 'warmest, funniest telly you'll watch this year' by The Guardian. Meanwhile, The Independent called it 'the most groundbreaking TV show of the year' and it was hailed as 'extraordinary' by the Radio Times. The series is produced by Rockerdale Studios, which said the same format will be repeated, where 'no question is off the table and no topic is out of bounds'. It is due to air on ITV1, ITVX, STV and STV Player in 2026. Katie Rawcliffe, director of entertainment and daytime commissioning at ITV, said: 'This really is ITV entertainment at its best: warm, funny, revealing and just that little bit mischievous.' Stu Richards, of Rockerdale Studios, said: 'I cannot believe we're still getting away with this. 'The chance to make something that plays by almost none of the rules of normal telly is just such a ludicrous privilege. I'm absolutely buzzing to be honest.' Gary Lineker, David Tennant, Jade Thirlwall, & Danny Dyer face their most honest, funny and heartwarming interviews yet, thanks to a remarkable group of autistic, neurodivergent and/or learning disabled interviewers. The Assembly – coming soon to ITV & @ITVX #TheAssembly #ITV — ITV (@ITV) February 27, 2025 The show is an adaptation of the French series Les Rencontres du Papotin, which has featured appearances from notable French figures, including President Emmanuel Macron, who was grilled about his marriage. Last year, Welsh actor Michael Sheen appeared on the pilot which aired on the BBC, where he was asked questions including what it was like to date someone only five years older than his daughter and which two members of the royal family he would choose to swap out. The show then moved to ITV for a full series. It now airs in 14 territories, including French Canada, Australia and Brazil.

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