‘Sick’ Shannon Matthews musical boss names present’s greatest tune – and why it isn’t offensive

A singer called K**t revealed his favourite song from his upcoming musical movie about the Shannon Matthews case – and he insists it is not offensive.

The Essex bloke, whose band is called K**t and the Gang, has already been criticised for releasing a film version of his 2022 Edinburgh Fringe musical, but he told critics to stick to Ed Sheeran.

And during a completely normal conversation with your beloved Daily Star, we asked him what his favourite tune was from the production that pokes fun about the bizarre disappearance.

Giving his answer, he said: “My personal favourite is Shannon Ain’t Dead (She’s Under My Bed). It is surely too ridiculous to be offensive.

“And it is as irritatingly catchy as the Shake n Vac advert.”

To give our esteemed readers some insight into the track, some of the lyrics are: “It got out of hand when the old bill got involved and when the papers said they’d give a reward if it were solved.

“And I can’t explain what were going through my head but if I’d have known you were coming I’d have kept her up me shed.”

A huge manhunt was sparked in Dewsesbury, West Yorks, when Shannon supposedly disappeared in 2008.

But the little girl was found alive three weeks later in the home of Michael Donovan, the uncle of Karen Matthew’s then boyfriend. It was revealed that the pair hatched the evil plot to pocket the £50,000 reward money.

Now, 16 years on, the K**t and the Gang film description reads: “West Yorkshire’s worst case of absolute stupidity is brought to the silver screen for the very first time. You can now split your sides at a comedy, about a drama, that once split the population of Dewsbury.”

Whether the film is in good taste or not has already been debated on Loose Women and Dewsbury West councillor Amma Anwar previously said it was “sick and bang out of order”.

But addressing naysayers, the independent artist, who has rapped about the Tories and the royals, said: “This country has always had large swathes of the population who seem to be just waiting for something to get offended about.

“I don’t know what it is about setting something to music that gets people’s backs up, but I guess it’s good for them to have something to focus on now and then, otherwise they’d only be sat around playing Candy Crush.”

He added: “Having seen some of the reactions from people who haven’t seen it, I am dreading what they would say if they actually did.

“But then if, like a lot of people, you’ve been spoonfed a diet of tepid diarrhoea like Mrs. Brown’s Boys and Ed Sheeran, anything a bit different or challenging will be hard to digest.”