an Wootton and Laurence Fox have been suspended from GB News because the community tries to quell the backlash following misogynistic remarks aired on Wootton’s broadcast.
The information channel mentioned yesterday: “GB Information has suspended Dan Wootton following feedback made on his programme by Laurence Fox final evening. This follows our determination earlier as we speak to formally droop Mr Fox. We’re conducting a full investigation.”
The latest controversy began on Tuesday evening (September 26), when Fox went on the Dan Wootton Tonight programme on GB Information to debate remarks made about males’s psychological well being by political journalist Ava Evans.
Fox demeaned the journalist personally and mentioned he would ignore her in a bar fairly than listening to her argument.
After calling Evans a “little girl”, he continued by saying, “Present me a single self-respecting man that want to climb into mattress with that girl ever, ever, who wasn’t an incel.
“We’d like highly effective, sturdy wonderful girls who make nice factors for themselves. We don’t want these type of feminist 4.0. They’re pathetic and embarrassing. Who’d wish to shag that?”
Fox continued, laughing together with Wootton, “Sorry, it is true, although.”
Wootton has since issued an apology on X, previously generally known as Twitter, admitting his response was ‘unacceptable’ after viewers famous he gave the impression to be smirking.He mentioned: “I wish to reiterate my remorse over final evening’s alternate with Laurence on GB Information. Having regarded on the footage, I can see how inappropriate my response to his completely unacceptable remarks seems to be and wish to be clear that I used to be on no account amused by the feedback. I reacted as I did out of shock and shock in an off guard second whereas figuring out the way to reply as he continued to talk by trying to find tweets @AvaSantina had despatched earlier within the day whereas having them learn out in my ear on the identical time.
“Nevertheless, I ought to have intervened instantly to problem offensive and misogynistic remarks. I apologise unreservedly for what was a really unlucky lapse in judgement on my half below the extreme stress of a weird alternate. I do know I ought to have finished higher. I am devastated that I let down the workforce and our supportive GBN household. We search to sort out the problem and never the individual, which I intend to emphasize once more on air tonight.”
Wootton is already below investigation for historic misconduct allegations by each his former employers at Information UK and MailOnline, which has suspended him. Consequently, three completely different media organisations are at the moment investigating him for a lot of causes.
However who’s the 40-year-old presenter?
Who’s Dan Wootton?
Wootton has made a reputation for himself within the media as a outstanding voice at tabloid newspapers and TV channels like GB Information.
The presenter and columnist is going through allegations that he used a pseudonym and supplied colleagues cash for sexual materials, claims he has branded as “merely unfaithful”.
The publishers of MailOnline, the place he writes a column, and his earlier employers at The Sun newspaper mentioned they’re wanting into allegations in opposition to the New Zealand-born journalist.
Throughout his time at The Solar, Wootton was finest identified for breaking tales, together with the withdrawal of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex from royal duties.
In January 2020, the newspaper printed a front-page article together with his byline which revealed that Harry and Meghan have been reviewing their roles.
The couple later introduced they supposed to step again as “senior” members of the Royal Household, change into financially unbiased, however nonetheless supporting the Queen whereas splitting their time between the UK and North America.
Wootton additionally grew to become embroiled in a authorized battle with Johnny Depp over an article printed in April 2018, whereas he was the newspaper’s govt editor, which referred to Depp as a “wife-beater” within the headline.
The actor filed a libel declare in opposition to Information Group Newspapers (NGN) — the proprietor of The Solar — which resulted in a 16-day trial wherein the choose dominated that the content material of the article was confirmed to be “considerably true”.
In January 2021, Wootton introduced he can be leaving his job as govt editor at The Solar, the place he had beforehand edited the paper’s Weird column.
He then change into a columnist for MailOnline, owned by DMG Media, which additionally publishes the Each day Mail and Metro newspapers.
He additionally hosts his personal present on GB Information, titled Dan Wootton Tonight, which explores every day information tales and hosts interviews.
Beforehand, he was showbiz editor on the now-defunct Information of the World and appeared on ITV’s Lorraine because the showbiz correspondent.
In a MailOnline column printed in Could, Wootton claimed former This Morning presenter Phillip Schofield tried “a number of occasions” to have him fired as a contributor on Lorraine.
He has additionally beforehand urged The Solar knew about Schofield’s relationship with a youthful ITV colleague however mentioned all he might “legally” write in 2019 whereas working for the newspaper was {that a} workers member moved from This Morning to Free Girls “regardless of a earlier shut friendship” with Schofield.
In an interview with the BBC, Schofield dismissed the claims that he tried to have Wootton dismissed from ITV, saying the accusations had come from Wootton’s “utter, whole hatred” for him.
“You’ll be able to’t do it. There is no such thing as a method that any presenter on one present can get a contributor fired from one other as a result of they don’t like the very fact they’re within the constructing,” Schofield mentioned to the BBC.
“I don’t know the place this got here from, that I’ve extra energy than anyone else. Bless Dan, there’s a whole lot of issues that I feel he mentioned out of hatred for me.”
