Funny lady Katherine Ryan took a swing at Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl and Love Island star Tommy Fury after both stars were accused of cheating on their partners, with rocker Dave admitting to fathering a secret love child
Katherine Ryan pulled no punches as she returned to the stage for her first comedy set since revealing her cancer diagnosis. The comedienne joined a star-studded line-up at The Royal Albert Hall for the Teenage Cancer Trust.
This week a host of huge names from The Who to The Corrs will take to the stage for a week of shows in support of the charity. Katherine joined the likes of Romesh Ranganathan, Zoe Lyons, Josh Widdicombe and host Micky Flanagan for A Night of Comedy on Tuesday.
“Celebrity men have antagonised me lately,” fumed Katherine at the start of her set. “How is Dave Grohl having a secret baby when he looks like he sleeps in his car? He looks like a pirate with gout.”
The outspoken star blasted the Foo Fighters frontman who revealed he had fathered a child with a woman outside of his 22 year marriage to Jordyn Blum. “The standard needs to be higher ladies you don’t need to f**k him just because he plays an instrument,” advised Katherine.
Canadian-born Katherine then took a swing at Love Island’s Tommy Fury, who denied cheating on fiancee Molly-Mae when they split up last year. “I felt personally offended when Molly-Mae and Tommy Fury broke up,” she scathed. “I feel it was his fault, I know it was his fault.
“I was irrationally cross with my husband for three weeks when that happened,” she added. before branding Tommy a ‘walking airbag.’
“We were on a quiz show together for charity and he was asked to name a country beginning with the letter H. He said, ‘Hamsterdam’. And he didn’t immediately know it was wrong,” she quipped.
Katherine told the crowd that now she’s over 40 a lot of her friends are going through divorces, “I believe men are one stupid mistake away from imploding their whole life,” she scathed.
It comes after Katherine took a swipe at McFly’s Danny Jones for ‘forgetting his family’ when he kissed Maura Higgins at the BRIT Awards this month. “They leave the house for three minutes to get milk and forget they have a whole family! They do that!” she fumed.
Katherine’s storming set comes just days after she revealed she has been diagnosed with cancer for a second time after she felt suspicious of a mole on her arm.
The 41-year-old said she initially had her suspicions of melanoma given the all-clear by a doctor who had worked in the NHS, before going on to a private clinic, which also dismissed her claims, before a test revealed the mole was cancerous. Katherine was previously diagnosed with stage two melanoma in her 20s, after finding an irregular mole on her leg, which was removed.
“The mole kept changing, and I know a lot about melanoma. I just felt like this mole wasn’t right, it’s on my arm, I showed pictures of it on my social media. I went in and I wanted the doctor to remove a bigger piece of it and stitch it up in a straight line, but even when he looked at it, he was like, ‘not melanoma, totally fine, I will do the shave and send it away for histology, and then if it comes back with anything, if there’s any borders that we missed, then we’ll do the deeper cut’.”
Katherine said the doctor called her and said she had early melanoma. The star later confirmed she had the mole removed in a post on TikTok, in which she showed pictures of it and urged others to get their moles checked.
Last night Katherine joined the huge names supporting the Teenage Cancer Trust with a string of special concerts at the Royal Albert Hall. This year’s series runs from March 24-30, including The Who; The Corrs; James Arthur; a night of comedy hosted by Micky Flanagan; a special night by Erased Tapes featuring Penguin Cafe; and Frank Carter and Paul Cook, Steve Jones, Glen Matlock of the Sex Pistols.
To mark the 25th anniversary of Teenage Cancer Trust at the Royal Albert Hall, the British artist and Gorillaz co-creator, Jamie Hewlett – a long-time supporter of Teenage Cancer Trust – has re-designed his iconic Teenage Cancer Trust logo for 2025.
Royal Albert Hall 2025 Show Dates:
Monday, March 24: Frank Carter and Paul Cook, Steve Jones, Glen Matlock of the Sex Pistols plus special guests Kid Kapichi and The Molotovs
Tuesday, March 25: A night of comedy hosted by Micky Flanagan with Scott Bennett, Finlay Christie, Romesh Ranganathan, Katherine Ryan, Jack Skipper + Josh Widdicombe
Wednesday, March 26: James Arthur plus special guests Venus Grrrls
Thursday, March 27: The Who plus special guests Level 42
Friday, March 28: The Corrs plus special guests Dea Matrona
Saturday, March 29: Erased Tapes featuring Penguin Cafe, Daniel Brandt, Douglas Dare and Hatis Noit
Sunday, March 30: The Who plus special guests Level 42
Tickets:
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