{"id":778592,"date":"2026-09-22T06:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T06:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/778592\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T06:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T06:08:11","slug":"andy-burnham-swipes-back-at-danny-dyer-as-row-erupts-with-star-actor-who-is-he","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/778592\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Burnham swipes back at Danny Dyer as row erupts with star actor: &#8216;Who is he?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Burnham has fired back at Danny Dyer by saying that he does not know who the cockney actor is.<\/p>\n<p>Remarks by Mr Dyer, who played Mick Carter on BBC soap EastEnders for a decade, went viral this week after he said that he did not who the Prime Minister was.<\/p>\n<p>And now, speaking to reporters en route to the annual meeting of the UN General Assembly, the Prime Minister has hit back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not sure I know who he is,&#8221; Mr Burnham jabbed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is he the father-in-law of a West Ham player?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ex-EastEnders man is, in fact, father-in-law of England and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbnews.com\/celebrity\/dani-dyer-bbc-strictly-jarrod-bowen-mum-mother-in-law-exclusive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">West Ham forward Jarrod Bowen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bowen, now 29, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbnews.com\/celebrity\/danny-dyer-true-feelings-jared-bowen-marriage-dani-dyer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">married Mr Dyer&#8217;s daughter<\/a> Dani, 30, last May.<\/p>\n<p>The Rivals star&#8217;s brutal swipe at the Prime Minister came as he was hauled over for an interview with a BBC reporter at a demonstration in Kent earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"7814b\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"6225a1c664c4f56d67be220a2c016afc\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%205000%203335'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790057290_953_andy-burnham.jpg\" width=\"5000\" height=\"3335\" alt=\"Andy Burnham\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Is he the father-in-law of a West Ham player?&#8217; the Prime Minister jabbed<\/p>\n<p> |  PA<\/p>\n<p>Mr Dyer had been attending a Surfers Against Sewage rally for state ownership of the water industry in Leysdown-on-Sea in Kent on Sunday alongside his daughter and singer Becky Hill.<\/p>\n<p>He was asked to talk through his &#8220;message for the Prime Minister&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But Mr Dyer replied: &#8220;I don\u2019t know who the Prime Minister is, mate. Do you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When reminded that it had been Mr Burnham since July 20, he said: &#8220;Yeah, but who is he? I don\u2019t understand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"77a83\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"79d4e7645bad6f6aa98d4914232406d2\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%202000%201405'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/danny-dyer.png\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1405\" alt=\"Danny Dyer\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I don\u2019t know who the Prime Minister is, mate. Do you?&#8217; Mr Dyer swiped at a protest in Kent<\/p>\n<p> | <\/p>\n<p>BBC<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;Did anyone vote for him?. Because I didn\u2019t vote for him. So I think we\u2019ve had successive prime ministers that are c***s. End of.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Put that on the f***ing BBC,&#8221; he added before walking off.<\/p>\n<p>Reporter Michael Keohan then shared the too-hot-for-TV moment on social media in a post he has since deleted.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote alongside the video: &#8220;I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;ll use this clip of Danny Dyer on the news tonight.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andy Burnham has fired back at Danny Dyer by saying that he does not know who the cockney&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[19306,830,59,57,58,50,229,56,44208,54,55],"class_list":["post-778592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-andy-burnham","tag-celebrity","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-uk","tag-uk-politics","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}