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Katherine Ryan jokes about David Beckham after apologising to Victoria
Katherine Ryan made a joke about David Beckham during a stand-up show in Chelsea.
It came two weeks after she apologised to Victoria Beckham for a joke on the BBC show Have I Got News For You.
The BBC had upheld complaints, saying there was no reason for the joke about Victoria.
The incident has drawn attention to how comedians handle offensive language about public figures.
Katherine Ryan joked about David Beckham during a stand-up show in Chelsea on Thursday, two weeks after apologising to Victoria Beckham for a joke on Have I Got News For You.
The BBC’s Executive Complaints Unit upheld complaints about Ryan’s joke linking Victoria Beckham to an obscene term, finding there was no editorial justification for it.
The joke followed a discussion on the programme about an alleged 2013 email in which David Beckham reportedly used the same term.
Ryan said in a social media video that she had not intended to cause harm and attributed her remark in part to being a new mother.
At the Chelsea show, Ryan said she loved Victoria Beckham while making a joke about David Beckham.
- Who
- Comedian Katherine Ryan and David and Victoria Beckham
- What
- Ryan made a joke about David Beckham during a stand-up show after the BBC upheld complaints about an earlier joke involving Victoria Beckham.
- When
- Thursday night, 8 October 2026; the article was published on 9 October 2026.
- Where
- A stand-up show in Chelsea; the earlier joke was on Have I Got News For You.
- Why
- Ryan said she loved Victoria Beckham; the BBC said the earlier joke about her was not editorially justified.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
I have been cancelled by the BBC for allegedly calling Victoria Beckham the C word.
Or as David Beckham knows it – the K word, because bless him the alphabet is hard.
At that time, though there is no defence, I was suffering from a condition called matrescence. I was in that building with a ten-day-old baby. Should I have left the house?
There was no such justification for a comment which presented Victoria Beckham as equivalent to a particularly offensive word.
On Have I Got News For You, Ryan made a joke about Victoria Beckham during a discussion of an alleged David Beckham email.
The BBC Executive Complaints Unit upheld complaints about Ryan’s joke, and Ryan apologised to Victoria Beckham.
Ryan joked about David Beckham during a stand-up show in Chelsea.
The Daily Mail published its report on Ryan’s stand-up joke and the earlier BBC ruling.
- Katherine Ryan's age
- 43
- David Beckham's age
- 51
- Victoria Beckham's age
- 52
- Stand-up show location
- Chelsea
- Email discussed on the programme
- An alleged 2013 email
Sources
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