Overview
- In a 27-second Cameo video, Nigel Farage appears to praise Ian Watkins as a “good man” and echoes the phrase “Mad Lolz.”
- The clip was commissioned by a prankster identified as John Smith, who said he aimed to test whether Farage would record the message without checks.
- Farage told Metro, “Thank him for the money… Tell him to send more. I did alter his request,” after the video circulated online.
- Metro reports the clip cost £98 to commission, and Farage has previously been duped on Cameo into saying the slogan “Up the ’Ra.”
- Ian Watkins, the disgraced Lostprophets singer, was killed in HMP Wakefield in October 2025, with two inmates charged and a case management hearing set for February 2 at Leeds Crown Court.