CAREER flagging? Why not get yourself in the headlines by being cancelled, like I did? Try these ways:
Flagrant hypocrisy
News presenter spending all day channelling righteous fury at anyone who ignores lockdown rules? Simply organise a party for yourself and ten friends, get caught, and you’re suspended from work for six months on full pay. Half a year’s holiday for being an arsehole? Nice one, Kay.
Say something vile on social media
Ideally Twitter: a hive of lefties scrolling all day, fingers twitching, in the mere hope of going viral for righteously calling someone out. The quick route? Simply compare something to Nazi Germany. Wearing masks in shops? Nazi Germany. Vaccine passports? Nazi Germany. Lost your cushy Star Wars job for comparing everything to Nazi Germany? Nazi Germany.
Double down
A week ago you were an undistinguished actor. Now you’re on GMTV, Newsnight, LBC and The One Show, you’ve gained 440,000 Instagram followers in a week, and the Daily Mail loves you. Time to consolidate your audience by going in hard on another vulnerable group in society. Has anyone suggested compulsory euthanasia yet?
Non-apologise
Your new fans love a fig-leaf of respectability to wave in everyone’s faces, so perform the traditional non-apology after getting three front pages for your over-80s extermination idea. “I’m sorry people took offence,” you announce, “and I was only trying to free society from its Covid shackles. Also, war veterans are exempt from my suicide booths so I really don’t see what I did wrong.”
Choose your path
You’ve got two routes out from your newfound notoriety: either the learning journey, where you sincerely regret your actions and get to front a BBC3 documentary about them, or carry on making vile remarks on social media to shock your increasingly jaded audience until you’re banned. I’m going the latter route obvs, but either way, what a ride.
