The channel has formally suspended host Fox for saying, whereas referencing a feminine journalist, “Present me a self-respecting man that wish to climb into mattress with that.”
After Fox’s feedback about Ava Evans, the political reporter for the web site Joe, throughout a Tuesday evening episode of Dan Wootton Tonight, GB News initiated an investigation.
Fox is a fellow GB Information presenter, in a self-titled present the place he “tackles the problems of the day together with his distinctive and outgoing model,” based on the station.
The broadcaster, nevertheless, acknowledged in a submit on X that Fox had been formally suspended whereas they regarded into the remarks he had made on the channel the night before.
“Mr Fox’s suspension is efficient instantly and he has been taken off air.
“We will probably be apologising formally to Ms Evans at this time,” the channel stated.
However who’s Fox and what different controversies has he been concerned in?
Who’s Laurence Fox?
Fox is an actor, politician, and presenter.
The 45-year-old comes from the Fox performing dynasty— Bafta-winning actor James Fox is Laurence’s father, and his aunt and uncle, Edward Fox and Joanna David, are seasoned performers in British theatre and cinema.
Fox went to public boys’ faculty Harrow, however he was expelled simply earlier than his A-Ranges. Following in his father’s footsteps, he then efficiently auditoned for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (Rada) and took to the stage in London.
He made his performing ebut in British horror film The Gap, in 2001, alongside Keira Knightley.
Nevertheless, his break got here with ITV detective sequence Lewis, with 9 seasons broadcast between 2006 and 2015.
On this spin-off of fashionable detective sequence Inspector Morse, Kevin Whately’s character Lewis is partnered with Fox as sidekick Sergeant James Hathaway.
Fox then began a second career as a musician. In 2016, he launched debut album Holding Patterns. However when his first document firm, Pledge Music, failed, he was compelled to discovered his personal enterprise, Fox Cub Records, which reportedly cost him tens of thousands.
Fox dipped into a 3rd career when he made headlines in 2020, after taking part in political dialogue programme Query Time, expressing a number of divisive viewpoints.
He additional incited controversy when he maintained his criticism of the inclusion of a Sikh soldier character in First World Struggle movie 1917, which he thought detracted from the plot to be able to display range.
Fox did apologise to the Sikh community, however insisted that he stood by all of his different statements.
We can also’t neglect his political profession.
Fox ran for mayor of London in Could 2021 however misplaced the election after receiving only one.8 per cent of the vote, forfeiting his £10,000 deposit.
He now serves because the chief of the Reclaim Social gathering, a gaggle that, in his phrases, seeks to fight “the woke orthodoxy of ‘white privilege’ and ‘’systemic racism’” and defend free-speech rights in addition to Britain’s tradition from liberal politicians and the media.
Fox ran as a Reclaim Social gathering candidate within the Uxbridge and South Ruislip by-election in July 2023. He misplaced his deposit as soon as extra after putting fourth, with 2.3 per cent of the vote.
Different controversies
On the top of lockdown and the Black Lives Matter motion, Fox spoke out extra regularly on Twitter.
He stated in a self-portrait on Twitter that, “I’m exempt from carrying a face masking”, whereas sporting the mask-exemption lanyard.
He tweeted: “After an extended interval of session with myself, an prolonged assessment interval and correct due diligence performed with myself, I’ve obtained the badge that I ordered from Amazon. Thanks for being there for me. #anxiousness”.
Others questioned Fox’s exemption, whether or not his declare of tension would stop him from placing on a masks, and why he wouldn’t do extra to safeguard those that have been extra weak.
In one other case, Fox known as soccer gamers’ conduct “a gesture of subservience and submission” in response to Piers Morgan’s tweet attacking Millwall fans who booed throughout a match in opposition to Derby, when gamers from each groups dropped the knee to display solidarity in opposition to racism.
Later, he tweeted the phrase, “It’s occurred earlier than… Appeasement is the inaccurate alternative.” He included an image of the 1938 England soccer team lined up for a Nazi salute.
Private life
Fox was married to singer Billie Piper from 2007 to 2016 and so they share two sons, Winston, 14, and Eugene, 11.
The 45-year-old revealed it was an unpleasant divorce which “crippled him financially”.
