“This next challenge is the most important of my life and I need your help.” “When I’m faced with a challenge, I work my hardest to deliver,” she wrote. In a message on her campaign website, Izzard wrote that she wanted to “support the city that has supported me”. The 60-year-old is understood to have local connections to the city where she studied drama and launched her creative career she ran through Sheffield in 2009 while completing 43 marathons in 51 days for Sport Relief. On Tuesday, her rival candidates for the Sheffield seat launched a joint statement condemning the level of “vitriolic abuse” directed at candidates. Izzard, who identifies as a woman, has faced a barrage of abuse since she launched her campaign to become the MP for Sheffield earlier this month, vowing to “take the fight to the Tories and get Keir Starmer into No 10”. Labour MP Chris Bryant told the Guardian: “Eddie is more than capable of defending herself and has run more marathons for charity than this chap could ever manage, but what I don’t understand is why playground bullies always think they are God’s gift to humanity and that LGBT folk are just waiting to pounce on them in the loo. I’m going to be honest now, controversial as always, if he does get elected and I’m still here, I shouldn’t be following him into the toilets.”Ī Tory MP told the Guardian: “Lee needs to remember he is a politician not a comedian, and perhaps Eddie needs to remember he’s a comedian not a politician.”Īnother Conservative MP called the comments “vile and disgusting”. “Is that what’s coming to parliament? I think it opens a whole new debate, mate. And you know what, the old traditional working-class Labour voters will take a look at Eddie Izzard and think, y’know, really? “Because I’m not sure what he’s all about, Keir Starmer’s not sure what he’s all about. Now, if Eddie Izzard gets elected, I don’t know whether that increases or decreases the percentage. Eddie previously performed his Stripped comedy show at the Hall for Cornwall in 2008 and brought her Force Majeure tour to the Eden Project in 2013.Anderson told the show: “… I think Labour have got 51% of their MPs now, in parliament, are females. The 60-year-old comic was recently seen joining Plymouth's Olympian diver Tom Daley on his gruelling four-day Comic Relief challenge, Hell of a Homecoming when he rowed, swam and ran from the Olympic Park in Stratford to his home city in Devon. To be added to the waiting list please email with your name and phone number. Unsurprisingly as Eddie is such a huge star, tickets for the intimate performances sold out within minutes of going on sale on Saturday. Read more: Comedy explosion in Cornwall includes first four-day festival

She is also performing previews of a solo adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations.' A spokesperson for the venue said: 'Eddie Izzard is currently in rehearsals creating a solo performance of William Shakespeare's Hamlet. The unique performances are in collaboration with the Hall for Cornwall. All profits will go to the upkeep of the hall. Both shows will be performed at St Ervan Village Hall, near Wadebridge, on Thursday, March 24, at 2pm and 8pm. More used to playing arenas and large venues, comedian and actor Eddie Izzard is performing two one-woman shows in a village hall in Cornwall this week.Įddie - who identifies as gender fluid and has used female pronouns since 2020 - has been in Cornwall since last week rehearsing her reading of Dickens' Great Expectations and a solo version of Shakespeare's Hamlet.

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