Sir Grayson Perry ‘freaked out’ by EDF bill as £2,500 taken from bank account

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Artist and broadcaster Sir Grayson Perry has described being “freaked out” by his electricity bill from energy firm EDF and revealed the firm took £2,500 from his bank account. Sir Grayson told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Tuesday: “I just suddenly out of the blue got a whole sheet of about 15 bills which added up to £39,000, and they said they were going to deduct the money by direct debit for all those bills on the same day, which was yesterday. “I just thought it was so bizarre and I tried on Friday – I spent about three hours at least – to get some sense out of a call centre, but you know, you’re talking to a computer really.” Sir Grayson said the bills varied between a few hundred pounds and £6,000 and described the incident as an “interesting fable of the technological age”. “So they never had a record of how much I was using, and then when the bill comes, it’s just an estimation by a computer.” Sir Grayson then revealed EDF had taken around £2,500 out of his bank account on Monday.