Ricky Gervais calls for New Year’s Honour list to celebrate NHS heroes rather than celebs

Ricky Gervais has called for celebrities to be banned from the New Year’s Honours list and instead replaced with NHS staff. 

The 56-year-old comedian is not shy from saying exactly what he thinks and in recent weeks has been vocal about his support for the NHS.

In a recent interview, the comic said: “I never want anyone to complain about the NHS again, or nurses or doctors or anyone on the front line.

“We’ve got to remember we clapped for them and that should always be there.”

Ricky continued: “The New Year’s Honours list should not go to celebrities this year. It should go to those people. Give it to someone who gave a kidney to a stranger, not someone who invented a new type of mascara.”

“I’ve seen people given a knighthood for services to fashion. What are you talking about, services to fashion? Christ, it’s not that hard. People are finding cures for cancer and AIDs”, Ricky added.

In recent months he’s also lashed out at celebs who have moaned ‘in their mansions’ while frontline workers are dying due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. 

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