{"id":661718,"date":"2026-10-22T04:48:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T04:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/661718\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T04:48:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T04:48:22","slug":"irish-comedian-vittorio-angelone-apologises-for-rape-joke-about-content-creator-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/661718\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish comedian Vittorio Angelone apologises for rape joke about content creator \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Irish comedian Vittorio Angelone has apologised for a rape joke he made about a woman who says her sexual-assault case is being heard in court in the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Rebecca Goodwin, an OnlyFans model and influencer from England, posted a video on her TikTok account earlier this week in which she cried about Angelone\u2019s remark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In a statement posted to his social-media accounts, Angelone said he \u201cmade a joke I shouldn\u2019t have made and I\u2019d like to say sorry\u201d. He also said he had contacted Goodwin privately to apologise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Belfast comedian made the rape remark on one of the Have a Word podcast\u2019s roast episodes, which invite guests to mock, tease and insult a particular person. For this programme it was his fellow comedian Freddy Quinne.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The roast was published on the podcast\u2019s subscriber-only Patreon page. Angelone then shared a screenshot of himself making the joke to his 498,000 followers on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He faced a swift backlash for his joke online, and his comments were condemned by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drcc.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.drcc.ie\/\">Dublin Rape Crisis Centre<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Rachel Morrogh, the centre\u2019s chief executive, said in a statement: \u201cFor survivors, hearing rape treated as a punchline can be deeply hurtful, and it reinforces the attitudes that discourage people from coming forward. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cReporting sexual violence and going through the courts takes enormous courage, and survivors deserve to know that the process will be treated with seriousness and respect. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cAnyone with a public platform, including performers, promoters and venues, has a responsibility to consider who is listening and the harm this kind of material can do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In a video Goodwin posted to TikTok addressing the joke, she said: \u201cI am currently going through a rape trial at the minute. It is active. It is in court. I am really disappointed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cI just can\u2019t believe that it was not only okayed by the Have a Word pod, but it was also allowed to be aired in front of millions of people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Goodwin, who had appeared on a previous roast episode of the podcast, said she was not approached before the episode was released and found out about it from her followers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drcc.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.drcc.ie\/\">Dublin Rape Crisis Centre<\/a>\u2019s national 24-hour helpline is at 1800-778888<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Irish comedian Vittorio Angelone has apologised for a rape joke he made about a woman who says&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[124976,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-661718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-dublin-rape-crisis-centre","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}