BBC create SFW version of Kanye West's 'Famous' featuring Justin Bieber, Cheryl and Carly Rae Jepsen

Ant & Dec also feature

Kanye West, being the attention-loving celebrity/producer/rapper/game-designer that he is, courted controversy earlier this year with the release of his now infamous video for the song ‘Famous’ off of his album, The Life of Pablo.

In the video, the likes of Kanye, Kim Kardashian, Taylor Swift, Donald Trump, Rihanna, and George Bush lay naked in bed together, naked. The 10-minute clip was praised as being strangely artistic while also being - to quote the BBC - “weird as hell”.

Instead of allowing the NSFW piece to run rampant online, the British broadcaster decided to make its own, squeaky-clean version of the video, featuring a similarly all-star cast, including Craig David, Justin Bieber, Carly Rae Jepsen, Nick Jonas, Cheryl, and Ant & Dec. Oh, and Nick Grimshaw (whose radio show it was made for). Watch the SFW version below.

As with the original, Kanye’s track plays in the background, yet, this time, the celebrities are fully clothed, talking nonsense and looking happy to be there.

Recently, the painter who inspired the original video - Vincent Desiderio - 'lambasted' Lena Dunham's critique that it “feels informed and inspired by the aspects of our culture that make women feel unsafe even in their own beds, in their own bodies”.

He said: “Artists are not saints. They’re not people whose first obligation is moral correctness.” Read the full response here.