The woman who was kicked out of Peter Kay’s show and compared to Lisa Riley today branded the comedian a ‘bully’ and accused him of singling her out because of her weight.
Myar Curran, 25, shouted ‘we love you, Peter’ during his gig at the AO Arena in Manchester on Saturday – only to be ejected by security.
As she was escorted out, the 51-year-old comedian shouted back at her from the stage: ‘Go on, off you go Lisa Riley.’
Myar, a care worker, has now said she was left in tears after being laughed at by the crowd at the 23,000-capacity venue.
Her comments come after Kay broke his silence on the incident earlier today. He claimed three hecklers were thrown out as they were spoiling the show for the rest of the audience.
A long-term fan of the Bolton-born comedian, Myar had travelled from Scotland for the show with her dad, aunt, best friend and boyfriend.
She had been excited to see Kay live for the first time and was wearing a zebra-print top.
‘I lost my mum a couple of years ago and she was supposed to come to the show so it was something that was going to be very special to us,’ Myar told the Manchester Evening News.
Two hecklers, Philip Peters, 54, and his son, 26, were abruptly evicted from the arena in the second half of the gig after Philip shouted ‘garlic bread’.
Myar – who was sitting in the same area but unconnected to Mr Peters – said she was then thrown out for shouting ‘we love you Peter’.
In an interview with the Manchester Evening News, she said she was ‘disgusted’ and thought the ‘Lisa Riley’ quip was a jibe about her weight.
‘I do feel he was on about my weight,’ the mother-of-one said.
‘I know Lisa Riley has lost a lot of weight and looks great but she used to be a bit bigger.
‘I didn’t used to be this big, I have put a bit of weight on, I’ve had a child.
‘I’m self-conscious about that so to go to a show and feel like you’re having the mick taken out of you because of your weight, I was just a bit shocked.
‘I’m annoyed and upset about it. The whole arena was laughing, I think they thought it was part of the show but there was a nastiness to his voice.
‘It was like he was trying to get the crowd against me – it just wasn’t nice, to be honest.’
Myar said she had ‘a cry about it’ when she got back to her hotel room.
‘It was just a very rubbish situation. My whole family was disgusted by it.
It comes as video footage has revealed the moments just before Myar was booted out of the gig.
In the clip, she can be heard chanting after one heckler was removed: ‘We love you Peter, we do. We love you Peter, we do.’
Peter then asks ‘are you not one of them?’ in reference to the heckler previously removed, before the chant continues. Peter says: ‘We love you, love.’
At this point, the chant ends with: ‘Ohhhh Peter, we love you.’ Peter replies: ‘Oh Christ almighty. Bloody hell. I love Saturdays. Is he gone now? Alright love I’ve heard you. Take her out and all while you’re up there will you? Take her out.’
Several audience members can then be heard cheering in response to Myar being kicked out.
Peter adds: ‘Yeah, is she a nightmare everybody? Is she a nightmare? Oh right, Keith get her, Keith, Keith. Keith, take that other woman up there, they’re all complaining about her and all. Go on.
‘Yeah they’re all at – her there in that black and white top from, erm, Debenhams, Blue Cross, get that. Blue Cross top on. You’re going flower and all, you’ve upset every b*gger around there. Go on, out you pop now.
‘Go on, you’ve missed the ending and everything, what a shame with your f****** big gob drinking de-icer. Out you go. Go on, Lisa Riley, f*** off. Go on. Out you pop flower, go on. See you. You’ve upset every b*gger.’
Peter then tells members of the audience: ‘Put your hand up round there if she’s f****** annoying.’ Dozens of hands could be seen going up, before laughter and applause breaks out.
In the final exchange before Myar leaves the arena, Peter says: ‘Ohhhh there’s about 40. You can’t argue with that. Out she goes. Ooh I love this, it’s alright now look at this. Go on is she going and all… there you go. Ta-ra darling. Thanks very much. No refunds. Out you pop.’
This morning Kay claimed the hecklers were kicked out as they were spoiling the show for the rest of the audience.
He also defended comparing Myar to Emmerdale actress Lisa Riley before evicting her from the AO arena, reports GMB.
In a statement given to the ITV show, he said: ‘I didn’t realise it was an insult. She did look remarkably like Lisa Riley, I didn’t realise that was an insult.’
In response, Myar believes that Kay ‘knew exactly what he was doing’.
‘If I was a bit skinnier, he wouldn’t have made the comparison.
‘There was no pussyfooting about it, it was definitely about my weight and how I looked.
‘You don’t need to take the mick out of somebody for their weight, it’s just out of order really.
‘He used to be a bigger man. It was like he was being a bully – there was a lot of anger and nastiness to it.’
She said she wouldn’t want Riley to feel she was ‘offended by being compared to her’ – but insisted she would never watch Kay again.
‘It’s just really gutting,’ she explained.
‘I might have understood it if I was shouting an insult but I wasn’t. He didn’t need to make it personal’