The Inbetweeners star James Buckley has boasted that the show would be “nothing without me” as he let rip.
The 32-year-old, who played Jay Cartwright in the BAFTA-winning E4 sitcom, has been busy talking to his fans on the online gaming platform Twitch.
During the coronavirus lockdown, he let rip at his co-stars Simon Bird (Will McKenzie), Joe Thomas (Simon Cooper) and Blake Harrison (Neil Sutherland).
In the live chat with his followers, he boasted: “I am the f*****g Inbetweeners.
“Take a second and try and imagine that TV show without me in it? You can’t, can you?
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“People call me Jay. It doesn’t really bother me, it isn’t a billion miles away from my actual name.”
Adding more fuel to the fire, James revealed that he has never ever watched anything that his co-stars have been in since the Inbetweeners.
He said: “I don’t watch Friday Night Dinner, I didn’t watch Fresh Meat. Blake’s got a new show (Kate & Koji) out at the minute on ITV as well, which actually looks really good, it looks really fun.
“But I probably won’t watch it.
“I love those guys and they’re my best friends pretty much.
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“But if I sit there and watch Blake in a TV show, I’ll just be going, ‘Oh, there’s Blake’.
“It’s like Simon Bird in Friday Night Dinner or Joe in Fresh Meat or something. I wouldn’t be able to enjoy what I was watching, because I’d just be distracted because there’s some person that I know on the TV. I’m still not used to that.”
Softening the blow, James pointed out how he does adore his co-stars and described them as, “My best friends, pretty much”.
Ouch, he certainly hasn’t held back, has he?
