Joe Lycett reveals the truth behind David Beckham World Cup money shredding
Joe Lycett has revealed that he didn’t actually shred £10,000 after David Beckham failed to respond to his World Cup ultimatum.
On Sunday (20 November), Lycett appeared to follow through with his pledge to destroy the money (£1,000 for every £1m of Beckham’s alleged deal) if the footballer didn’t end his contract in protest against Qatar’s stance on LGBT+ issues.
Appearing on a livestream at the website BendersLikeBeckham.com, Lycett – wearing a tulle jacket in the colours of the Pride Progress flag – took the cash and threw it into a shredder. He then curtsied for the camera and walked off.
But on Monday (21 November), Lycett shared a new video update on what had actually happened.
“This is my final message to David Beckham,” he said. “It’s me! That prick who shredded loads of money in a cost of living crisis. So, where we?”
Explaining how he’d streamed himself dropping the money into a shredder, Lycett added: “Or did I? I haven’t quite told you the whole truth.”
Lycett then revealed that, while the money he threw in had been real, what came out was fake.
“I would never destroy real money. I would never be so irresponsible,” he said, adding that the £10,000 had already been donated to LGBT+ charities before he sent his first tweet to Beckham.
Instead, he shredded Beckham’s 2002 cover of gay magazine Attitude.
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