LUCY Beaumont’s £1.6 million payday after her split from fellow funnyman Jon Richardson, certainly leaves her with more in the bank than most jobbing comedians.
But the comic who starred with her ex-husband on the Dave comedy channel in a mockumentary show, Meet the Richardson’s, confessed that her career has been thwarted by various predatory men on the comedy circuit.
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Speaking in an unearthed interview from last year, Lucy, 41, admitted that she suffered several incidences in the early days of her career. She said:
“I’ve had quite a few incidences where if you’re in any other workforce you would go to HR, but there isn’t one. I think it’s just everywhere and it’s not talked about enough.
‘It upsets me when I hear about young female comics having the same experiences. I thought for a while it was the same five or six people – and now it’s not – I could name you 10 or 15 because of course people talk.’
The comedian and TV star was speaking on The Comedians Comedian Podcast in July 2023, when she told how much of the ‘predatory male behaviour’ is covered by industry bigwigs.
She said: ‘It attracts such interesting, passionate, raw, edgy, wounded people – but it also attracts predatory men who are really messed up and sexually have been repressed for years. And they get a bit of fame and display these behaviours.
‘It just gets covered up. Their agents know and the channels know and nobody seems to be doing anything about it.
‘There’s been times when I’ve just wanted to go on Twitter and just let people know everyone that we talk about, but not allowed to say.’
Married to Jon Richardson who regularly appears as a TV panelist, the pair met back in 2013 and got married in 2015, before working on a string of shows together including Meet the Richardson’s.
But in April, the couple who share a 7- year-old daughter, announced their shock split, just days after the launch of the fifth series of their show.
Yesterday it was revealed that in June two months after going public with their separation, Jon had paid Lucy, 1.652 million for her shares in the company they co- manage.
The documents also reveal that the couple are still joint owners of a £1 million house in Yorkshire with a pool and a £1 million flat in North London.
Money money money, must be funny.
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