The story is one of many in recent times to show Nigel Farage saying apparently inappropriate messages for pay on the personalised video platform Cameo, including calling for ‘Diddy’ to be ‘Free’
Footage from Cameo has shown that Nigel Farage was paid to call for release of rapper Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs. The Reform UK leader was paid to make the remarks on Cameo, on which he has also praised dead rock paedo Ian Watkins as a “good guy”.
He also commended the efforts to free a former Honduran president jailed in the US for drug trafficking. The latest videos unearthed were recorded in early 2025, after he was elected as an MP.
The Reform UK leader received payment to make the remarks on the personalised video site Cameo, which allows users to commission celebrities and public figures to record scripted video clips. One user paid more than £80, asking for a birthday message for somebody called “Kieron”, and asked Farage say “Free Diddy, eat Shankly”.
The user then asked the Farage to use the anti-immigration phrase, “if in doubt kick ‘em out”. Farage said: “I’ve got to roast Newcastle and say Free Diddy, eat Shankly.” He added: “And if in doubt, let’s control our borders.”
Farage’s Cameo appearances have already received heavy scrutiny, with an investigation by the Guardian revealing that the former UKIP and Brexit Party leader had recorded clips where he endorsed a neo-Nazi event. Farage’s spokesperson said his Cameo videos should “not be treated as political statements or campaign activity”.
In the past he has also paid tribute to notorious paedophile and former Lost Prophet frontman Ian Watkins, calling him “a good man, a good guy, who loved his children”.
In the brief clip, which was also requested from a punter on Cameo, Farage said: “This message is to pay tribute to Ian Watkins, a good man, a really good guy, who was very much in contact with me, who loved his children and will be sorely, sorely missed by them forever.
“And he’ll always have a very special place in everybody’s heart. And remember what he always said: ‘Mad lolz’, well I tell you what, that does just about sum up the world, doesn’t it? Sorry for your grief, but please try and keep some happy memories.”
The video was shared on Reddit, where a poster said he was fuming at seeing Farage “giggling at PMQ’s with regards to Groks obscene images”.
“I asked myself: ‘Is there anything Farage would not do for money?’ So I asked him to do a tribute to the former Lostprophets singer and nonce Ian Watkins!”, wrote the user.
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