Right Said Fred Complain ‘We’re Still Cancelled’ 35 Years After Only Hit Record
Right Said Fred believe they are “still cancelled” over five years after saying they were against Covid-19 vaccines.
The Fairbrass brothers – Fred, 62, and Richard, 72 – said back in 2021 that anyone who takes the Covid vaccine is ‘foolish’ as it is ‘only for experimental use … there is no long-term data’.
They branded vaccines a ‘scam’, and then six months later, Richard was hospitalised with Covid himself, spending 4 nights in hospital and struggling to breathe.
Even still, he insisted he would never get the jab.
Richard also spoke out against lockdown at the time, saying: ‘We either live like hermits and we kill the country we love, or we face up to the fact that some of us are going to die.’
The ‘I’m Too Sexy’ duo attended a protest in Trafalgar Square in September 2020, saying the UK is a ‘strange place’ where ‘there are only certain kinds of speech that are acceptable’.
The brothers have now spoken to TalkTV about the ongoing impact being ‘cancelled’ has had on their career.
They said: ‘In Covid, we were cancelled. We’re still cancelled to a degree of it.’
‘It’s just so stupid’.
‘We had a book; our autobiography was cancelled, about 100 shows, we had a film cancelled, we had about two or three commercials cancelled.’
‘We lost a lot of money.’
They also claim they received ‘death threats’ for saying they didn’t want vaccines ‘pushed on’ to them.
Well, I’m not sure the world would have been clamouring for more Right Said Fred in the 2020s had they not gone anti-vax, but I’m sure they did lose some gigs because of it. Naturally people were ready to take a pop at them for complaining about being ‘cancelled’, as they haven’t really been relevant since the early – mid 90s:
In fairness to Fred, he’s since clarified that he was ‘not a Covid denier’, nor was he ‘anti-vax’, however, he ‘defends those people’s right to express their opinion’. In hindsight, probably should have said that in the first place.
For the time Stephen Fry got ‘cancelled’ for saying women don’t enjoy sex as much as men, click HERE.
