Iain Stirling has slated celeb culture and reality TV as a waste of time despite him and wife Laura Whitmore making fortunes fronting Love Island.
The voiceover comic sneered he would rather hear the mundane details of his pals’ lives than get obsessed with famous folk such as the Kardashians.
He also mocked millennials as vain and anxiety-ridden even though they make up the majority of Love Island’s cast and millions of its fans.
Iain, 33 – worth around £3million mainly due to narrating ITV2’s Love Island since its 2015 premiere – hit out when asked for his take on people’s obsession with celebrity’s lives.
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He said: “I get it, but I don’t agree with it. I hate the idea that if you’ve got this nice thing, you need this s**t thing to go along with it.
“I’m more interested in how my mate Greg’s house move went. I don’t have time to find out what the Kardashians are up to.
“I just thought I was going to be the voiceover on a reality TV show on a digital television channel. I didn’t think it was going to be this cultural artefact.”
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Iain’s Irish telly host wife Laura, 36, has built a fortune of £11.5million while hosting Love Island.
He added he was convinced the dating show would only last a year or two best when he first voiced it.
Iain admitted about its debut year: “We were all going to Magaluf and having an absolute jolly. We thought it had one series, maybe two – it was so expensive to make.”
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The comic added he is targeting the self-obsession of millennials in his new ITV2 comic Buffering, about a bunch of twentysomethings flat-sharing in London.
He said: “My generation were brought up to think that we’re special and unique – we can be whatever we want to be.
“We wanted every character to be suffering from some millennial trope. We’re always worrying that we’re not fulfilling our potential.”
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Iain confessed he was also a “textbook millennial” as he constantly worried his comedy career wouldn’t take off while he was doing kids’ TV.
He moaned about his stint on CBBC: “There’s a general malaise of having to talk to children all day and having to smile through gritted teeth, whilst all the politics are going on behind the scenes.
“You’ve got to walk out and just be happy all the time. Because I was able to pay my rent and had a day job, I felt like I wasn’t a proper comedian.
“When you’re 23 and talking to a puppet dressed as William Shakespeare’s wife, you sometimes think, ‘This isn’t it’.
“I wish I had stopped worrying about being on Live at the Apollo or writing some incredible show that would change people’s lives. I was a textbook millennial.”
Love Island airs nightly on ITV2 at 9pm
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
