Iain Stirling has caught heat for a remark viewers deemed insensitive while he commentated on Soccer Aid 2024. Soccer Aid is an annual star-studded football match raising money for UNICEF, with the likes of Jill Scott , Bobby Brazier , Sam Thompson, Danny Dyer , and Tom Hiddleston playing for England this year. They face off against World XI, comprising Usain Bolt, Tommy Fury, Roman Kemp, Lee Mack, and Tony Bellew, to name a few, at Stamford Bridge.
Former children’s TV presenter Iain, 36, joined Sam Matterface on co-comms duty for the charity sporting event once again this year. Mid-way through the game, however, while imploring viewers at home to pick up their phones and donate to charity, he made what social media users branded a ‘classless’ quip. ‘£40, what’s that? A takeaway for the whole family?’, Iain asked.
‘Why not cook and give us £40 instead?’, added the Love Island narrator, who is married to Laura Whitmore. The comment came as teachers have been dipping into their own pockets to pay for food for children, energy meter poverty hits record high, and bills rise at an astronomical rate. What Iain said didn’t go unnoticed by viewers, with X user MaxPollard92 asking: ‘Does Iain Stirling know how utterly classless this sounds?’ ‘Ian Stirling saying “what’s 40 quid?” Ian mate there’s a cost of living crisis and people in the uk struggling to live and have to go to food banks to survive.
40 quid may be nothing to you, but it’s a lot for.
