The BBC found itself with a completely unbroadcastable interview after asking Danny Dyer about politics – but thankfully, for everyone’s amusement, a reporter tweeted it anyway.
The former EastEnders star attended a Surfers Against Sewage protest in Leysdown-on-Sea, Kent, on Sunday, alongside his daughter Dani Dyer and singer Becky Hill.
The famous faces were at the beachfront protest to help highlight the campaign group’s latest petition calling for water companies to be returned to public ownership.
When the BBC managed to get a few minutes with Dyer, political reporter Michael Keohan asked the Rivals actor if he had a message about the campaign for the prime minister.
In footage shared on X by Keohan, Dyer responded: “I don’t know who the prime minister is, mate. Do you?”
When told Andy Burnham is in charge, the 49-year-old replied: “Yeah… but who is he? I don’t understand. Did anyone vote for him? Because I didn’t vote for him. I think we’ve had successive prime ministers that are c***s. End of.”
“Put that on the f***ing BBC,” he said, before walking away.
Keohan, who has now deleted his X post, wrote alongside the video: “I don’t think we’ll use this clip of Danny Dyer on the news tonight.”
Over the years, Dyer has been often outspoken about political issues and famously branded former prime minister David Cameron a “t**t” during one ITV appearance.
The actor was on the panel for a special Good Evening Britain programme, fronted by Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid, when he questioned the fact Cameron quit Number 10 after Brexit.
“So what’s happened to that t**t David Cameron who called it on?” Dyer said in the 2018 episode.
“How comes he can scuttle off? He called all this on. Where is he? He’s in Europe, in Nice, with his trotters up, yeah, where is the geezer? I think he should be held account for it.”
When the conversation moved on, Dyer quickly added another “t**t”.
In an interview with The Big Issue in Ocotober 2024, Dyer was similarly unforgiving when asked for his verdict on then-prime minister Sir Keir Starmer.
“The Tories are such f***ing a***holes that Keir Starmer got in not for what Labour were saying but because the Tories f***ed it up so much,” he said.
“And I don’t like this man. I don’t trust this man. He got the job handed to him on a plate. So what are you going to do to show us you’re different? And he’s gone straight in on pensioners – I find that f***ing fascinating. This is meant to be a working-class party. We need more working-class people in politics.”
He took aim at Starmer again at the 2025 Brit Awards, telling host Jack Whitehall that a hypothetical "B*****d Award” should “probably” be won by the politican.
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