Abuser called Eddie Izzard a ‘f***ing poofter’

Comedian Eddie Izzard told a court he stood up to a man who abused for the ‘hundreds of thousands of years of transgender people being aggressively attacked.’ Jamie Penny, 24, threatened to ‘do’ the 54-year-old celebrity’s house after Izzard turned his request to give him and a friend a lift in his classic 1958 Volkswagen Beetle outside a pub in central London. A month later Penny saw the stand-up again and branded him a ‘f***ing poofter’, Hammersmith Magistrates Court heard….