Joe’s poo podcast Turdcast has been cancelled – but fans think something fishy is going on (Picture: Joe Lycett/Instagram)

Joe Lycett fans were gassed when he announced the launching of his new poo podcast, Turdcast – but it wasn’t meant to pee, we mean be.

The 35-year-old comedian appeared all set to interview celebrities about their best poo stories – something that I think we can all agree was a serious gap in the market.

If we didn’t already think podcasts were about chatting s**t, this one would have confirmed it, literally. The poo story-curious out there could hardly contain their excitement, like one’s bowels might after a spicy curry.

But Joe’s launching of his Turdis – a mobile loo, which was set to tour the country for fans to use – to poo-mote the pooed-cast on Liverpool’s Royal Albert Dock yesterday didn’t go to plan with some, fittingly, pretty strong wind.

Fans were left disappointed when the whole day was cancelled after a ‘mechanical fault’ saw a ‘spillage occur’ into the water of the iconic Liverpool site.

A spokesperson said: ‘During an event at Liverpool Docks today, a mechanical fault occurred with a portable toilet which saw a small spillage occur.

Gary Lineker was supposed to be Joe’s first guest on Turdcast (Picture: My Options Were Limited/Joe Lycett)

‘This was immediately dealt with by the support team on hand to ensure there was no impact on the water into which the spillage occurred.

‘However, the event was cancelled with immediate effect as it was not possible for members of the public to use the toilet as planned. We apologise to disappointed fans hoping to attend.’

Adding another layer to the smelly saga, Joe announced on his Instagram that in light of the excrement spillage, the whole podcast – which was supposed to debut today with none other than Gary Lineker talking about that world famous on-pitch poo story – has been ‘cancelled indefinitely’.

‘Following the incident yesterday at Liverpool Albert Docks and an ongoing investigation into the sewage spilled into the waters, it has been concluded that it would be inappropriate to launch the podcast today, and we’ve therefore made the decision to cancel the podcast indefinitely,’ Joe shared with fans.

‘I’m very sorry to disappoint and hope that we can launch soon. I’d like to reiterate that it was entirely safe and managed by the team very swiftly. I’ll be releasing more information in due course.’

While Joe’s post seemed entirely earnest, fans think it is almost suspiciously so…

Some commented on the news with a critical eye, suspecting this could be a big old stunt as part of some elaborate campaign by the ever-mischievous comic.

‘I love how we can’t tell whether this is real or not. The Lycett Lore is strong,’ commented one fan.

His Turdcast launch happened in Liverpool yesterday – but it was cancelled (Photo by Richard Martin-Roberts/Getty Images)

A leakage meant the promotional day was called off (Picture: @LouiseKempUK)

‘I smell a campaign coming on 💩’ wrote another.

Fans grew more suspicious when Gary posted an equally grave response to Joe’s cancellation announcement.

‘As Joe’s first guest on the podcast, this is all extremely disappointing,’ he said. ‘I agreed to it in good faith, but can’t help but feel somewhat let down. S**t happens, I guess.’

Another fan did some political brainstorming, as they commented: ‘I wonder if this is part of something bigger! If Joe can sort out potential sewerage pollution into water ways faster than the government.. don’t want to spoil it but that would be brilliant.’

In recent years the extent to which water companies have been – excuse the pun – dumping sewage into UK seas and rivers has slowly come to light.

Wessex, Thames and Southern Water released sewage on 388 occasions – for a total of 3,500 hours – throughout 2022, according to a report by the BBC.

Water companies are only supposed to spill after heavy rain to dilute it and prevent flooding areas with raw sewage.

The government have come under fire over failing to prosecute water companies for dumping on dry days, and allowing them to continue to flout rules set to prevent high levels of poo entering waterways.

Joe has been known for his poo-litically-motivated stunts in the past.

Last year, he posted a fake leaked Sue Gray report, which included his thought-up findings of the Goverment’s Partygate scandal like, you know, when the cabinet minsters performed a rendition Hear’Say’s Pure and Simple on a table.

On Tweeting this – motivated by anger after a close friend died during lockdown – Joe apparently caused chaos and ‘mass panic’ in the Government.

Could he be any more brilliant?

In 2021, Joe staged a tantrum on an episode of Steph’s Packed Lunch after the presenter made a joke about a yoghurt bottle.

Knowing this would hit headlines, Joe pretended to have a hissy fit and storm out in order to raise awareness about Yop drinking yoghurt’s use of hard-to-recycle white plastic.

Get this: the stunt actually worked as Yop commited themselves to changing their plastic bottles.

Joe, Joe, Joe… What are you up poo this time?

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The new podcast was due to plop today.