By Sammie Jones-
Davis, who was paid an estimated £150,000 for the show has continued to face heavily criticism over his behavior and sexist attitude
The spat with bar staff at the pier was sparked following after a ban imposed on Davidson after he had a drink on stage. Several complains about the spat were made to the manger of the bar, and talk of his rude behaviour has continued into today amongst locals.
The 64 year old made matters worse for his image when he referred to the bar attendant in question as ”woman staff member”, as though to say she was less a staff member because she is a woman.
He commented on facebook after the show, saying: “Well thats it. Gail force 8 on Cromer pier. Theatre freezing and a bad attitude barman. Do I need this? “Welcome to hell.
“Bar woman wouldn’t let me take my glass onstage. You sort of know when you are not wanted. Why do staff have agendas?”
He later added: “Great little gig. Well meaning stage crew. Good audience ruined by bad attitude woman staff member.”
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His comments will not fetch him many invites to future shows after that attitude. Davidson was eventually criticised for sexism on social media by Terri Gammon, who wrote: “Did it make you feel big to speak to her the way you did?
“Manners cost nothing, 21st century women are just as equal to men, even if that equal is a disgusting sexist pig like you.”
Many present at the bar were disappointed with the former comedian’s attitude as they discussed critically about Davidson when he left. Marcus with one claiming he asked to speak to a male manager because “women don’t like me”.
The comedian had lost his cool after the manageress told him he could not take his drink on the stage so his first part of the show involved making fun of her and bar staff.
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Christian Swift, 44, of Cromer, said the comedian arrived with a bad attitude, and added: “He encouraged people in the audience to ask for their drinks at half-time to be served in glasses and was egging everybody to bring a glass back to the theatre.
“After half-time all the customers came out and started having a go at the bar staff because Jim Davidson had egged them on to do it.”
Davidson’s journey to stardom was accelerated by his father after his pals were impressed with his son’s impressions of celebrities. Young Jim Davidson at the time was subsequently chosen to appear in Ralph Reader’s Gang Show at the Golders Green Hippodrome. He was 12 at the time ,and appeared on television in the Billy Cotton Band Show.
Following his departure from school, he became a drummer for pub bands,and worked as a supermarket shelf stacker, a messenger, air ticket clerk for a travel agency, a cashier for Wall’s ice cream, for Rank Xerox
His venture into show business took off properly when as a regular in a pub in Woolwich, he undertook an act in the place of a regular comedian who hadn’t turned up. He then became a regular on the London comedy circuit, first auditioning Opportunity Knocks in 1975, and then successfully won an audition for New Faces, after winning the show by one point.
Davidson eventually appeared in over 10 television programmes or series in a career spanning 41 years between 1977 and 2008; Hell Kitchen, and Comedy Map of Britain, being his last two. In 2013, he joined the eleventh series of Celebrity Big Brother, but was arrested in 2014 by Operation Yewtree- the police operation investigating child abuses. He was eventually released without charge before joining the 14 series of Big Brother, which he won.
Once a very loved television personality in the UK, Davidson has lost the respect of many who once admired him. His failure to understand the important of respecting women and treating them as equals to men, reduces him to just a clown who had a lucky break on television, and did well out of it. It might be funny standing up on a stage cracking jokes, but its not funny when a grown man doesn’t know how to respect authority and behave civilly. Worse of all, the moment we know he is sexist, that individual is no longer a man. He is a male with very little up there!
He declared he would never return to the town, where he used to own the Wellington Pier. But the ex-Big Break star has since returned for performances, including fundraisers in aid of the Caister lifeboat.
And in 2011 he said that he did not play at Norwich’s Theatre Royal because theatre bosses had effectively banned him after claiming he was rude to staff when he appeared seven years before.
Mr Davidson was unavailable for comment.
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