COMEDIAN Joe Lycett has called on former England midfield sensation David Beckham to drop his ambassadorial role for the upcoming Fifa World Cup in Qatar.

In a video posted to Twitter on Sunday, the comic and activist delivered an ultimatum to Beckham: end his reported £10-million deal with Qatar or Lycett will shred £10,000 of his own money.

Lycett, who once changed his name to Hugo Boss in protest against the fashion company's threats to sue small businesses that used the words ‘Hugo’ or ‘Boss’, said he considered Beckham to be a gay icon.

“You were the first premiership footballer to do [photo] shoots with gay magazines like Attitude, to speak openly about your gay fans, and you married a Spice Girl which is the gayest thing a human being can do,” Lycett says in the video.

“But now it’s 2022 and you’ve signed a reported £10 million deal with Qatar to be their ambassador during the Fifa World Cup. Qatar was voted as the one of the worst places in the world to be gay — homosexuality is illegal, punishable by imprisonment, and if you’re Muslim, possibly even death.

“You have always talked about the power of football as a force for good. Which suggests to me, you have never seen West Brom. But generally I agree.

“So with that in mind, I’m giving you a choice. If you end your relationship with Qatar, I will donate ten grand of my own money (that’s a grand for every million you’re reportedly getting) to charities that support queer people in football.

“However, if you do not, I will throw the money into a shredder at midday next Sunday, just before the opening ceremony of the World Cup and stream it live on a website I’ve registered called benderslikebeckham.com.

“Not just the money, but also your status as a gay icon will be shredded.

“Also, you’ll be forcing me to commit what might be a crime. Although even then, I reckon I’ll get off more lightly than I would if I got caught whacking off a lad in Doha.

“The choice is yours. I look forward to hearing from you.”

Beckham has not yet responded to Lycett’s demands.

Fellow former Manchester United legend Eric Cantona, on the other hand, said earlier this year that he will not watch the tournament.

“To be honest, I don’t really care about the next World Cup, which is not a real World Cup for me,” Cantona told the Daily Mail in January.

“In the last decades, you had a lot of events like the Olympic Games or World Cups in countries that are emerging — like in Russia or China. 

“But Qatar — it’s not the country of football. I’m not against the idea of hosting a World Cup in a country where there is a possibility to develop and promote football, like in South Africa or the United States in the ’90s. 

“It’s only about money and the way they treated the people who built the stadiums, it’s horrible. And thousands of people died. And yet, we will celebrate this World Cup.”

Both Fifa and Qatar have faced an avalanche of criticism over the oil-soaked nation’s dreadful human rights record.