Ricky Gervais Expresses Thoughts About Celebrities Complaining About Quarantine

Comedian Ricky Gervais has recently expressed his thoughts about rich celebrities who have been complaining about the coronavirus quarantine. Some stars who have been giving negative reactions about being in isolation have caught the comedian’s attention.

Some examples from Fox News are Ellen DeGeneres who received backlash for joking that being in quarantine is like a prison. Sam Smith and Kelly Ripa “got emotional during video interviews while talking about the struggles of staying at home.”

Ricky Gervais Has Had Enough

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“After this is over I never want to hear people moaning about the welfare state again, I never want to hear people moaning about nurses again. Or porters,” Gervais said in an interview with The Sun.

“These people are doing 14-hour shifts and not complaining. Wearing masks, and being left with sores, after risking their own health and their families’ health selflessly. But then I see someone complaining about being in a mansion with a swimming pool. And, you know, honestly, I just don’t want to hear it.”

Following the comedian’s serious tone, he added: “I didn’t go out much anyway, and there’s always too much booze in the house. It’s always been the 6 p.m. watershed for as long as I remember. Obviously, I am looking at the watch.”

According to Gervais, he recalls the humble beginnings that he came from. “I was born in the beginning of the Sixties in Battle Hospital in Reading. And that should have been an omen. Having gone by the title, I should have known life was going to be a struggle. And it was — I was the fourth child of an immigrant laborer. My dad worked on building sites all his life, until he was 70. He got up every day at 5:30 a.m.,” he said.

“I had no money growing up, I didn’t have any until I was 40.”

Gervais now lives with his partner, author Jane Fallon, in Hampstead, North London.

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