Controversial comedian Dapper Laughs accused of ‘triggering’ thousands after mocking his heavily pregnant wife’s walk
HE’S no stranger to causing controversy with his jokes.
But comedian Dapper Laughs may have taken it too far this time – after mocking his heavily pregnant wife’s walk.
The funnyman, real name Daniel O’Reilly, took to TikTok to share a video of wife Shelley in Sainsbury’s, as he poked fun at her gait.
“Why is it that pregnant women walk like they’re about to start a scrap?” he began his video.
As he turned the camera round and Shelley walked back into shot, he added: “You want some fruit with that bowl?
Shelley looked entirely unimpressed with her husband’s antics, frowning and saying “What?”
He then filmed Shelley as she walked ahead of him, continuing: “She looks like she’s just come out of Wetherspoons, 10 Stellas deep on the pub grub.”
As they approached a customer and supermarket employee, he said Shelley looked as though she was going to “start on these two” now.
Clearly annoyed, Shelley then told her other half to “shut up”.
And lots of people in the comments section slammed the former Celebrity Big Brother star.
“Triggered a lot of expecting mums with this one,” one wrote.
“Because we’re in pain baby is heavy & pushing down!” another added.
To which Dapper replied: “It’s a joke!”
“Because there is literally a bowling ball between my legs,” a third commented.
“It’s a level of discomfort you can’t understand unless you’ve lived it,” someone else insisted.
“The head. The pressure, the swollenness,” another sighed.
“It honestly feels like the head is right at the entrance so you have to walk like that to make it more comfortable,” someone else wrote.
“The last few weeks are a living hell.”
“Ah leave her alone, bless her,” another urged.
“Comedians’ wives must be stressed 24/7,” someone else said.
But others insisted they found the joke funny.
“It’s funny cause it’s true,” one wrote.
” Poor Shelley, she looks so uncomfortable, bless her!”
“Oh my god I was about to get defensive, being a heavily pregnant woman but I’m crying,” another admitted.
“She just needs a tracksuit and some airmax 95’s,” a third laughed.
“This had me in stitches, go on Shelley!” someone else said.
“As a pregnant woman I AM HOWLING,” another commented.
Dapper first came onto the scene back in 2014, when he released single Proper Moist.
He went on to land an ITV2 show Dapper Laughs: On the Pull, but the show was axed after a petition from thousands of viewers following a live show in which he’d said a female member of the audience was “gagging for a rape”.
In November 2014, Daniel announced that he was retiring the Dapper Laughs character, but resurrected him the following March.
He entered the Celebrity Big Brother house in 2018 and was the eighth housemate to be evicted.
He proposed to Shelley during his eviction interview.
Daniel and Shelley – who married in 2022 – are already parents to two daughters, and will be welcoming their third child into the world in the very near future.