{"id":78803,"date":"2023-09-25T13:15:16","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T13:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/?p=78803"},"modified":"2023-09-25T13:15:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T13:15:16","slug":"melanie-sykes-cried-all-night-after-keith-lemon-humiliated-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/world-news\/melanie-sykes-cried-all-night-after-keith-lemon-humiliated-her\/","title":{"rendered":"Melanie Sykes &apos;cried all night after Keith Lemon humiliated her&apos;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Melanie Sykes claims she &#8216;cried all night&#8217; after Keith Lemon humiliated her in front of a live audience &#8211; before being told she was the &#8216;first person to ever complain about him&#8217; by production company boss<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ms Sykes\u00a0claims TV producers failed to act after she complained about the comic<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Melanie Sykes\u00a0claims she &#8216;cried all night&#8217; after Keith Lemon humiliated her in front of a live audience\u00a0while they filmed\u00a0ITV&#8217;s Through The Keyhole &#8211; before allegedly being told by a company boss that she was the first person to ever complain about him.<\/p>\n<p>She claims TV producers failed to act after she complained that comic Leigh Francis &#8211; best known as his alter ego Keith Lemon \u2013 made jokes about her.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Sykes said Francis, 50, made explicit sexual gags about her for three hours, including: &#8216;I bet your a*****e smells of flowers.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She said he &#8216;used&#8217; her to entertain the audience.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The radio and television presenter also said the TV production company Talkback, founded by the comedy duo Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones, ignored her when she complained.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on fashion PR Lynne Franks&#8217;s podcast, Frankly Speaking, Ms Sykes, 53, said: &#8216;I went into the studio and I didn&#8217;t think Keith was going to be like he was on the other show he does [Celebrity Juice] where it&#8217;s all sex and blowjobs and talking about people&#8217;s a*******s.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/23\/21\/75767703-12553303-image-a-19_1695502069563.jpg\" height=\"375\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Melanie Sykes claims TV producers failed to act after she complained that comic Leigh Francis made humiliating jokes about her\u00a0while they filmed ITV &#8216;s Through The Keyhole. Pictured L-R: Jonathan Ross, Melanie Skyes, Keith Lemon and\u00a0Ashley Banjo<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/23\/21\/75767701-12553303-image-m-22_1695502212212.jpg\" height=\"980\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Ms Sykes said Francis, 50 \u2013 best known as his alter ego Keith Lemon \u2013 made explicit sexual gags about her<\/p>\n<p>But she added, in the podcast which aired in 2019: &#8216;I sat there for a three-hour record and he did all that stuff to me verbally to entertain the live audience &#8211; because it was never going to make the edit of the show \u2013 so he used me to entertain the audience.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;So for three hours I struggled through that. I got home that night and I cried all night and I rang my agent in the morning and told him about my experience and I said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;m going to do about it&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;So I rang the head of the production company, and said &#8220;can you make sure in the edit I don&#8217;t look out of my depth, angry or upset, because I don&#8217;t have a poker face, because it&#8217;s detrimental to me&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;And she agreed for me to see part of the edit and I would approve of it, and I said, &#8220;it was a terrible experience&#8221;. She said, &#8220;you&#8217;re the first person that has ever complained about him&#8221; and I said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t care&#8221; and this was before MeToo, so it wasn&#8217;t like I felt strongly because of it. I said &#8220;you and I know that there are loads of women who don&#8217;t say anything, it doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s not happening&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Sun, Ms Sykes added: &#8216;So all of these things can hit the cutting room floor but my experience still lives and breathes, it still lives and breathes now.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Comedian Katherine Ryan, who has accused Russell Brand of being a sex predator, labelled Francis an &#8216;obvious creep&#8217; at the 2019 TV Choice Awards.<\/p>\n<p>She told the audience that Lemon was &#8216;proof for perverts everywhere that an obvious creep is cute. It&#8217;s way less threatening than a stealth one&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Francis hosted Celebrity Juice for 25 seasons before it was axed last year. It drew complaints and was the subject of an investigation by Ofcom, which ruled that a trailer for the show breached guidelines in 2013 by featuring what the watchdog said was a sex toy.<\/p>\n<p>Talkback said looking after its TV guests was &#8216;a top priority&#8217;. Francis has been contacted for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12557353\/melanie-sykes-cried-keith-lemon-humiliated-live-audience-complaint.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melanie Sykes claims she &#8216;cried all night&#8217; after Keith Lemon humiliated her in front of a live audience &#8211; before being told she was the &#8216;first person to ever complain about him&#8217; by production company boss Ms Sykes\u00a0claims TV producers failed to act after she complained about the comic Melanie Sykes\u00a0claims she &#8216;cried all night&#8217;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Melanie Sykes &amp;apos;cried all night after Keith Lemon humiliated her&amp;apos; 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