Keith Lemon urges Craig David to “cease speaking” about ‘Bo Selecta’
Keith Lemon – aka comic Leigh Francis – has mentioned that Craig David ought to “cease speaking” about Francis’ impersonation of him on Bo’ Selecta!.
Francis starred within the cult Channel 4 present between 2002 and 2009. The comic caricatured David in addition to the likes of Mel B, Michael Jackson and Elton John in a variety of weird sketches.
Most infamous although was his impersonation of R&B star David, which the singer just lately likened to “bullying” and revealed was the rationale behind him taking a break from the music business.
“It’s simply [about] having accountability,” David mentioned in a current interview. “I’ve no grudge with Leigh, genuinely. It’s extra the very fact of: it is advisable to be accountable.”
Talking to The Sun, Francis mentioned he believed that the difficulty would go away if David had been to take his consideration away from the problems of the present.
‘Most individuals are pleased with their portrayal on Bo’ Selecta!,” he mentioned. “Aside from somebody we all know who wasn’t.
“The one method it’s ever going to go away from him, if he feels persons are occurring about it, is to cease speaking about it,” he added.
“It’s ages in the past, isn’t it? It’s, 20 years in the past. I want he wasn’t upset.”
In 2020, Francis mentioned he was “deeply sorry” for his “offensive” portayals of Black celebrities together with Michael Jackson and TV presenter Trisha Goddard.
David advised BBC Breakfast: “It simply feels a little bit of a coincidence that it occurred to return at a time when George Floyd has been killed in broad daylight in America. To then have the Black Lives Matter motion… protests around the globe.
“After which [Francis’ apology] comes as a response to one thing that actually ought to by no means have gone there, when it comes to ever placing a rubber masks on that’s blackface, which it was.
“And it’s simply being accountable for that. I feel that, in the end, I by no means actually spoke about that. And the coincidence of it simply felt too well timed. I really feel emotional talking about it, as a result of I simply felt like I used to be speaking on behalf of so many individuals who’ve been bullied and skilled that.”
Again in 2016, David spoke about reconciling with Francis two years prior. “It truly wasn’t [Bo’ Selecta!] itself which was the bottom level for me,” he recalled. “It was not with the ability to put music out in the way in which I all the time needed to.”