Robin Ince: Last News

Ricky Gervais has been accused of bullying by former comedian and touring partner Robin Ince.Ince, who quit comedy in 2015, made the allegations on an episode of podcast Starting The Line in July, but his comments have now resurfaced.Ince was Gervais’ opening act during his stand-up shows in the 2000s and alleged that the bullying was so severe that it affected his health. He also said that Mackenzie Crook, Gervais’s co-star in The Office, once had to intervene.“People who knew me did not like the way that relationship worked,” he claimed.

Oscars."Dear TV and film stars, why are some of you so f*****g weird?" he challenged, in view of almost 15 million followers."You're actors.Some of you, great actors.So just act normal.Simple."Robin Ince - who will be undertaking a Horizon tour with Brian Cox this year - took the opportunity to indulge in some banter with Ricky, as he reacted to the tweet.He quipped: "I like hearing this advice from a man who insisted I should be buried on a beach, hung up on a coat rail by parcel tape & who used to hide in my dressing room shower cubicle so he could leap out screaming. NORMAL."Ricky jokingly hit back: "Good point, but at least I never sat on ham to coax out anal parasites or drank milk directly from a cows udder, Robin."The Office star's tweet comes just days after Chris Rock was slapped on stage for making a GI Jane joke about Will's wife Jada Pinkett Smith.She suffers from the autoimmune condition alopecia, which causes hair loss, which resulted in the difficult decision to shave her head.However, it has been reported that Chris had been unaware that she had a medical condition when he made the joke - and some onlookers argued that being compared to "strong" and "brave" GI Jane was actually quite a compliment.Will, clearly upset, hadn't taken the quip the same way, however, after he publicly yelled at the comedian to "keep my wife's name outta your f*****g mouth!"Ricky publicly told the world he would give as good as he'd got if Will had dared to punch him.Describing himself as "heavier" and "angrier", he made multiple comments about the scenario on Twitter - and when one fan asked him how he would have handled the situation, he said: "Smack 'em back.""Unless they're smaller than you," he jokingly added.

Levenshulme, started his career under his real name Steve Vernon, but had to change his name because acting union Equity already someone of the same name on their books.