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Ricky Gervais Wants Rich People To Stop Lecturing 'Normal Nobodies' About Coronavirus

Updated August 30, 2021

Look, I think if this pandemic is gonna teach us anything about Hollywood, it's gonna be about which celebs we stan moving forward, and which ones we really don't.

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I think it's safe to say that Ricky Gervais will be one of the celebs we admire when this is all said and done.

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The 58-year-old is not afraid to speak his mind when it comes to rich people complaining about COVID-19.

Just a few weeks ago, Ricky told celebs to stop complaining about being quarantined in their mansions.

He wanted people with huge houses and pools to stop complaining about being forced to stay there.

Now, the comedian is calling for an end for celebrities lecturing "normal" people.

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"For a start, you won’t hear me complain -- not when there's [United Kingdom National Health Service] nurses doing 14 hours shifts -- and frontline workers carrying on and risking their health," the comedian explained while on BBC Radio 5.

"I'm fine. Don't worry about me … I go for walks on Hampstead Heath, and we've got a garden."

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"There are people in high rise blocks with three kids -- I can't complain," he continued.

"This is why millionaires in their mansions with their gym and going for a swim can't lecture people."

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"People are sick of being lectured, multi-millionaires telling them to clean out their coffee jar and put it in the right bin -- they know those celebs are taking private jets to their private islands. They are sick of it."

"That Imagine video, it's not that bad, they're probably very nice people. “It was an awful rendition, but they might have been doing it for good reasons, to help these normal nobodies," he continued.

"But they're going ‘My film's coming up and I'm not on telly – I need to be in the public eye’, not all of them, but some of them. You can see in their eyes, ‘I could cry at the beauty of my personality, I'm just so beautiful for doing this’ and everyone sees that – we get it."

I mean, is he wrong?

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Ricky Gervais Wants Rich People To Stop Lecturing 'Normal Nobodies' About Coronavirus

I think it's safe to say that Ricky Gervais will be one of the celebs we admire when this is all said and done.

Just a few weeks ago, Ricky told celebs to stop complaining about being quarantined in their mansions.

Now, the comedian is calling for an end for celebrities lecturing "normal" people.

"I'm fine. Don't worry about me … I go for walks on Hampstead Heath, and we've got a garden."

"This is why millionaires in their mansions with their gym and going for a swim can't lecture people."

"That *Imagine* video, it's not that bad, they're probably very nice people. “It was an awful rendition, but they might have been doing it for good reasons, to help these normal nobodies," he continued.

"That Imagine video, it's not that bad, they're probably very nice people. “It was an awful rendition, but they might have been doing it for good reasons, to help these normal nobodies," he continued.