The woman who was kicked out of Peter Kay’s show and compared to Lisa Riley today branded the comedian a ‘bully’ and accused him of singling her out because of her weight.
Myar Curran, 25, shouted ‘we love you, Peter’ during his gig at the AO Arena in Manchester on Saturday – only to be ejected by security.
As she was escorted out, the 51-year-old shouted back at her from the stage: ‘Go on, off you go Lisa Riley.’
Myar, a care worker, has now said she was left in tears after being laughed at by the crowd at the 23,000-capacity venue.
Her comments come after Kay broke his silence on the incident earlier today. He claimed three hecklers were thrown out of the gig as they were spoiling the show for the rest of the audience.
A long-term fan of the Bolton-born comedian, Myar – wearing a zebra-print top – had travelled down from Scotland to see Kay live for the first time along with her dad, an aunt, her best friend and boyfriend.
‘I lost my mum a couple of years ago and she was supposed to come to the show so it was something that was going to be very special to us,’ she told the Manchester Evening News.
The first two hecklers, Philip Peters, 54, and his son, 26, were abruptly evicted from the arena after he shouted ‘garlic bread’.
Myar – who was sitting in the same area but unconnected to Mr Peters – said she was ‘disgusted’ at being thrown out for shouting ‘we love you Peter’, and thought the ‘Lisa Riley’ quip was a jibe about her weight.
Myar Curran, 25, (pictured) was kicked out of Peter Kay’s show in Manchester where he compared her to Lisa Riley
Pictured: Emmerdale actress Lisa Riley who Kay compared Ms Curran to as she was removed from his gig
Peter Kay broke his silence today after kicking three hecklers out of his Manchester gig on Saturday (pictured 2017)
‘I do feel he was on about my weight,’ the mother-of-one told the Manchester Evening News.
‘I know Lisa Riley has lost a lot of weight and looks great but she used to be a bit bigger.
‘I didn’t used to be this big, I have put a bit of weight on, I’ve had a child.
‘I’m self-conscious about that so to go to a show and feel like you’re having the mick taken out of you because of your weight, I was just a bit shocked.
‘I’m annoyed and upset about it. The whole arena was laughing, I think they thought it was part of the show but there was a nastiness to his voice.
‘It was like he was trying to get the crowd against me – it just wasn’t nice, to be honest.’
Myar said she had ‘a cry about it’ when she got back to her hotel room.
‘It was just a very rubbish situation. My whole family was disgusted by it.’
This morning Kay claimed the hecklers were spoiling the show for the rest of the audience.
Myar (pictured), 25, shouted ‘we love you, Peter’ during his gig at the AO Arena on Saturday – only to be ejected by security
Myar was compared to Emmerdale actress Lisa Riley (pictured in 2024) as she was escorted out of the show
Myar (pictured) was kicked out of Peter Kay’s show in Manchester on Saturday
Mr Kay pictured at the O2 Arena in January ahead of a gig
Myar was at the show with her father, auntie, her best friend and boyfriend
He also defended comparing Myar to Emmerdale actress Lisa Riley before evicting her from the AO arena, reports GMB.
In a statement given to the ITV show, he said: ‘I didn’t realise it was an insult. She did look remarkably like Lisa Riley, I didn’t realise that was an insult.’
In response, Myar believes that Kay ‘knew exactly what he was doing’.
‘If I was a bit skinnier, he wouldn’t have made the comparison.
‘There was no pussyfooting about it, it was definitely about my weight and how I looked.
‘You don’t need to take the mick out of somebody for their weight, it’s just out of order really.
‘He used to be a bigger man. It was like he was being a bully – there was a lot of anger and nastiness to it.’
She said she wouldn’t want Riley to feel she was ‘offended by being compared to her’ – but insisted she would never watch Kay again.
‘It’s just really gutting,’ she explained.
‘I might have understood it if I was shouting an insult but I wasn’t. He didn’t need to make it personal’
