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Michael Sheen has called for Prince Andrew to be taken out of the Royal Family and for Tom Jones to be brought in as he launched an attack against royal 'wrong 'uns' during a BBC interview.
Mr Sheen made the comments during his appearance on the BBC One show The Assembly where he was interviewed by a group of 35 autistic, neurodivergent and learning disabled people.
He also went into detail about why he controversially chose to hand back his OBE and why he has a problem with the title of Prince and Princess of Wales.
It was billed as the show where no subjects are out of bounds and no questions are off the table and The Assembly lived up to its word as Mr Sheen was asked a wide variety of questions which he answered candidly.
One area Mr Sheen was grilled on was his opinion of the Royals - as one of the most vocal critics of the monarchy - and, as a Welshman, their role in Wales.
Welsh actor Michael Sheen appeared on BBC One Show The Assembly where he was interviewed by a group of 35 autistic, neurodivergent and learning disabled people. During the show he was grilled about his opinion on the monarchy
Mr Sheen as Prince Andrew. He is set to play the Prince in the upcoming Amazon Prime series 'A Very Royal Scandal'. He said during the show if he would like to replace Prince Andrew with comedian Joe Lycett
During the interview Mr Sheen said he found the title of Prince and Princess of Wales 'problematic'
One interviewer asked Mr Sheen if he could replace two members of the Royal family who would he replace and with who.
To which he replied: 'I'd get rid of Andrew and replace him with Joe Lycett and maybe bring David Attenborough instead of Camilla. And I'd make Tom Jones the Prince of Wales.
Mr Sheen is set to play Prince Andrew in the upcoming Amazon Prime series 'A Very Royal Scandal' which follows the Prince after his disastrous 2019 interview with journalist Emily Maitlis.
Another interviewer, named Efan, asked Mr Sheen why he decided to give back his OBE. The award winning actor received his OBE in 2009 for service to drama before handing it back in 2017.
Mr Sheen said: 'I was given the OBE which is a great honour. But a few years later I was asked if I would do something called the Raymond Williams Lecture - a history of Wales.
'As I was researching for that I realised that if I was to give this lecture and say the things I was discovering I would be very hypocritical to have something calling me an Officer of the British Empire.'
He added that he has no problem with the honour system but felt he couldn't give the lecture without handing back his OBE.
