Comic Rosie Jones and TV presenter Lee Peart have spoken out after being subjected to what they described as an ‘ableist and homophobic’ assault whereas travelling by prepare.
Jones – greatest identified for her stand-up comedy and common appearances on Channel 4’s 8 Out of 10 Cats – revealed that she and Peart had been verbally mocked by three passengers earlier than having wine thrown at them.
In a joint video posted to Peart’s social media, the pair detailed the incident, exhibiting pink wine splattered throughout the prepare wall.
‘You already know what that was from?’ Peart says within the clip. ‘Being attacked by ableist and homophobic a*******s.’
Jones provides: ‘Three individuals mocked each of our voices, threw wine at us. What a f***ing waste!’
Peart, who’s overtly homosexual, described the assault as symptomatic of a wider rise in hostility and prejudice.
‘That is the truth we’re attending to now on this nation,’ he mentioned, expressing disbelief at how shortly the state of affairs escalated.
Each comedians later confirmed they had been bodily unhurt and had been supported by officers from the British Transport Police, who’re investigating the incident.
Peart thanked followers for his or her concern, writing: ‘The BTP took us dwelling and had been fantastic. Rosie Jones is a superb human.’
Jones, who has ataxic cerebral palsy, has beforehand spoken concerning the abuse she receives on-line and in public as a disabled girl within the leisure trade.
Her Channel 4 documentary Am I a Rtard?* examined the language of hate and the persistence of ableist attitudes in Britain in the present day, a subject made tragically related by this newest expertise.
She later posted to Instagram to honour World Cerebral Palsy Day and talked about the assault in her caption.
She wrote: ‘However on the prepare dwelling from our gig final night time, me and my good pal Lee had been victims of ableism and homophobia. They mocked our voices, shouted slurs at us and even threw a wine bottle (plastic, fortunately).
‘It was a stark reminder that my CP makes me stand out, and is commonly used as a weapon towards me. Sadly the worms of this world use my incapacity to try to make me really feel like a sufferer. I’m not.’
She continued, including the inspiring message: ‘Individuals with cerebral palsy ought to by no means be made to really feel like friends in an unwelcoming and hostile world which wasn’t arrange for individuals like us. We have now simply as a lot of a proper to be right here as anyone else. AND DON’T FORGET IT.’
This incident has sparked widespread outrage and assist from fellow performers and followers, a lot of whom have condemned the assault as a part of a troubling sample of abuse confronted by minority voices within the UK’s public sphere.
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