John Cleese ‘worried’ lack of diversity in women’s football will lead to BBC axing coverage of future matches

John Cleese expressed his fears that the BBC will axe future Lioness matches as a result of group’s lack of range (Image: Getty)

John Cleese is definitely involved the shortage of range in England’s ladies’s soccer group could lead on the BBC to scrap broadcasting their matches altogether. Sure, actually.

After the Lionesses made historical past with their win in opposition to Germany within the Euro 2022 remaining over the weekend, the Monty Python actor said that he's nervous that future video games might be dropped as a result of company’s ‘inflexible quota system’.

‘As the enjoyment following the England Ladies’s beautiful victory subsided, I started to fret concerning the lack of range in our fantastic group,’ Cleese penned.

‘I perceive why there have been no differently-abled ‘ladies’ within the group, however is it proper… that they need to all be blondes?’

In a separate tweet, Cleese continued: ‘The BBC now calls for that entertainers of their exhibits mirror range, underneath a reasonably inflexible quota system.

‘Is there a hazard that the BBC will refuse to broadcast matches starring such a non-inclusive group or are they versatile sufficient to permit exemptions for distinctive expertise?’

Cleese identified that the BBC ‘calls for that entertainers of their exhibits mirror the variety’ (Image: Getty)

As the enjoyment following the England Ladies’s
beautiful victory subsided, I started to fret about
the shortage of range in our fantastic group

I perceive why there have been no differently-abled ‘ladies’ within the group, however is it proper… that they
ought to all be blondes ?

In spite of everything…

— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) August 3, 2022

…the BBC now calls for that entertainers of their exhibits mirror range, underneath a reasonably inflexible quota system

Is there a hazard that the BBC will refuse to broadcast
matches starring such a non inclusive group

Or are they versatile sufficient to permit exemptions for distinctive expertise

— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) August 3, 2022

I believe they are going to stay inflexible, since their mission assertion is now extra involved with social engineering than in producing the absolute best programmes for the British public

It’s fortunate we made Monty Python once we did…

— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) August 3, 2022

‘I believe they are going to stay inflexible, since their mission assertion is now extra involved with social engineering than in producing the absolute best programmes for the British public,’ he added.

‘It’s fortunate we made Monty Python once we did…’

It’s extraordinarily unlikely that the BBC would pull its broadcasting of ladies’s soccer, particularly after the Lionesses’ remaining match smashed scores with over 17million folks tuning in to observe the sport.

The England ladies’s group after successful the Euro 2022 championship (Image: Getty)

The sport received the title of the most-watched second of the 12 months by far, beating the Queen’s Jubilee and the lads’s Wimbledon remaining, which each achieved a peak viewership of seven.5million.

In 2020, the BBC introduced its plans to extend range by investing £100million of its TV price range over a three-year interval to supply ‘numerous and inclusive content material’.

The company additionally set itself a compulsory goal for 20% of off-screen expertise to return from under-represented teams, together with these with disabilities or from a BAME or deprived socio-economic background.

Cleese’s remarks come after he hit again at backlash after making a joke he made about slavery throughout a SXSW discuss.