Comedian Joe Lycett unveils hilarious Harry Styles portrait he wishes he hadn’t agreed to

Brummie comedian Joe Lycett, who is also an artist, revealed today (August 5) that he was contacted by Harry Styles’ team to create his portrait but things didn’t go according to plan.

Lycett shared a photo of Harry Styles posing for him while he paints a portrait of the singer and actor. The hilarious comic added that when he was contacted by Styles’ management a few months ago he didn’t “really know of his celebrity at the time” and said yes but wishes he had not “cause the whole thing has been a disaster.”

The comedian added that Styles visited his “holiday home in Padstow and sat for two days” but Lycett only spent about 20 minutes on the picture in the end. The reason for it was an issue with his russell hobbs fridge/freezer which he had to defrost - which is when he realised that some diced goat was “going off” and so made Massaman curry.

He added: “Anyway I thought I’d done a good job of the pic but his management were quite cross and one of them said ‘it’s Harry Styles not Jeremy Beadle’s face on a fucking egg’ and Harry just awkwardly kept saying it was an honour to meet me whilst not eating his curry.

“They didn’t take the painting so I spoke to the National Portrait Gallery on the phone and they said they don’t take unsolicited submissions and it was hard to make a judgement on a call so I went in in person and the girl on the desk was really nice but said she wasn’t sure I was what they were looking for and she also said she didn’t want any goat massaman curry because she’s a vegetarian.”