STACEY ‘SEES AFRICA LIKE A KARDASHIAN’
Now TV Trisha blasts Dooley charity aid
TRISHA Goddard has joined the backlash over Stacey Dooley posing with a black child.
The ex talk show host said the documentary maker had behaved “like a Kardashian”.
She joined Labour MP David Lammy who has blasted Stacey for her “white saviour” role with Comic Relief.
And Trisha said she didn’t like the image showing Stacey posing with a Ugandan child, shared on the Strictly star’s Instagram account and captioned with the word “obsessed”.
Trisha, 61, said on ITV’s Good Morning Britain: “What jumped out at me was underneath it said ‘obsessed’ in that Kardashian thing.
“I found that disturbing. She’s done some great things. She has done some great work. We haven’t seen the film Stacey has done... It may be local heroes and heroines in the area.”
But she added: “Saying ‘obsessed’ – that’s what Kardashians say about shoes.
“I had part of my childhood in east Africa, I understand what people are trying to do. There are thousands of remarks. A lot of them are saying: ‘Stacey, I love your work but I don’t like this.’” Her comments come after Mr Lammy slammed Stacey, saying the world does not need any more “white saviours”. Ugandan High Commissioner Peter Moto said on ITV’s This Morning he “wasn’t comfortable” with some social media images of children. But he added his nation needs the Comic Relief money, which goes towards education, health and refugees. Mr Moto said: “Stacey did a great job. Comic Relief is doing a good job. We are not comfortable with pictures of children on social media. There is nothing wrong with what Comic Relief is doing but we felt a little uncomfortable with the social media.” Stacey said: “Comic Relief have raised over 1 billion pounds since they started. I saw projects that were saving lives with the money. Kids’ lives.”
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