Taxes? Don’t relight my ire
Jimmy Carr on why Gary Barlow got an easier ride on avoidance
Some called for Gary to lose OBE – I’ve still got my job!” Jimmy added: “It was an interesting time that. You really find out who your friends are. I remember you (John Bishop) tweeting on the day something very supportive. “You remember – the people who didn’t call, the people who did. I made a Jimmy responds to tax row on Twitter mistake, clearly, and I paid it all.” In the candid TV interview which airs next week, Jimmy also told how he feels the celebrity world is “a dangerous game”.
He added: “I don’t feel like I’m a celebrity, I’m a comedian. That world doesn’t interest me. Hello! coming in to do photos of your kitchen – it’s not happening.”
And Jimmy revealed how he lost his
Catholic faith 18 months before the death of his mum Nora Mary in 2001.
He said: “If she gave me the gift of laughter and what I do with my life, then that’s enough. That will have to do, I don’t think anyone is looking down.”
halina.watts@trinitymirror.com John Bishop: In Conversation With Jimmy Carr, September 28, 9pm, on W Channel.