{"id":222777,"date":"2023-09-27T23:07:35","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T23:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allworldreport.com\/?p=222777"},"modified":"2023-09-27T23:07:35","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T23:07:35","slug":"ex-lewis-star-laurence-fox-is-suspended-for-sexist-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allworldreport.com\/world-news\/ex-lewis-star-laurence-fox-is-suspended-for-sexist-rant\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Lewis star Laurence Fox is suspended for sexist rant"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Ofcom probes GB News after ex-Lewis star Laurence Fox is suspended for vile sexist rant: TV station in crisis after presenter says live on air of woman journalist &#8216;Who would want to s**g that?&#8217;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>GB News said the presenter of the show, Dan Wootton, had also been suspended<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Ofcom confirmed it had received a &#8216;number of complaints&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Media regulator Ofcom last night launched a probe into GB News after actor Laurence Fox made highly offensive comments about a female political journalist on air.<\/p>\n<p>The vulgar sexual remarks made by the 45-year-old activist sparked anger across the political divide yesterday, with the channel suspending Fox.<\/p>\n<p>Ofcom confirmed it had received a &#8216;number of complaints&#8217; and was &#8216;assessing these complaints against our broadcast rules&#8217;. It added it would &#8216;publish the outcome as quickly as possible&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>GB News, backed by hedge-fund tycoon Paul Marshall, apologised after Fox attacked Ava Evans, political correspondent for news website JOE. He sparked fury after he said &#8216;who would want to s**g that? and asked &#8216;what self-respecting man&#8217; would &#8216;climb into bed&#8217; with &#8216;that woman&#8217;. He also described her as a &#8216;little woman&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Evans responded on social media, saying Fox&#8217;s comments made her feel &#8216;physically sick&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/27\/22\/75912071-12568581-image-a-69_1695851836338.jpg\" height=\"280\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Laurence Fox\u00a0sparked fury after he said &#8216;who would want to s**g that? and asked &#8216;what self-respecting man&#8217; would &#8216;climb into bed&#8217; with &#8216;that woman&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/27\/22\/75912139-12568581-image-a-70_1695851953558.jpg\" height=\"427\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Political correspondent for news website JOE, Ava Evans (pictured), said the exchange made her feel &#8216;disgusting&#8217; and &#8216;vile&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Later yesterday afternoon, GB News revealed that the presenter of the show, Dan Wootton, had also been suspended. Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer branded Fox&#8217;s comments &#8216;inappropriate and unacceptable&#8217; while Tory backbencher, Philip Davies, who co-presents a show on the channel, said the &#8216;disgraceful&#8217; remarks were &#8216;completely unacceptable, unjustifiable and indefensible&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Labour shadow culture secretary Thangam Debbonaire wrote on X, formerly Twitter: &#8216;Last night&#8217;s woman hating on air has hit a new low. Should we (women) have to tell a broadcaster that on-air woman-hate is not OK?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>And fellow Labour frontbencher Matthew Pennycook said: &#8216;Ofcom must act to end this kind of odious behaviour whenever and wherever it takes place.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Fox&#8217;s outburst came during a discussion on GB News on Tuesday night, which came in response to Ms Evans&#8217; comments earlier this week that the idea of a minister for men would &#8216;feed into the culture war&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on BBC2&#8217;s Politics Live on Monday, Ms Evans was accused of being dismissive about men&#8217;s mental health issues. She subsequently admitted on social media she had been &#8216;a little rash on my anti-minister for men comments which I do regret&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Fox, who founded the Reclaim Party in 2020, told the Dan Wootton Tonight show: &#8216;We&#8217;re past the watershed so I can say this: show me a single self-respecting man that would like to climb into bed with that woman, ever, ever, who wasn&#8217;t an incel [involuntary celibate who hates women]?<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We need powerful strong amazing women who make great points for themselves, we don&#8217;t need these sort of feminist 4.0&#8230; they&#8217;re pathetic and embarrassing. Who would want to s**g that?&#8217; Wootton had seemed to laugh at Fox&#8217;s comments before apologising yesterday. But Fox later revealed text messages between the pair making light of it, saying: &#8216;Honesty is the best policy.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Ms Evans said the exchange made her feel &#8216;disgusting&#8217; and &#8216;vile&#8217;. She revealed last night she had received a &#8216;gracious&#8217; apology from GB News but had yet to decide if she would accept it.<\/p>\n<p>Among the messages of support from the public were also &#8216;threats that have come into my inbox&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/27\/22\/75911803-12568581-image-a-67_1695851602096.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>GB News apologised after Fox attacked Ava Evans (pictured)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/27\/22\/75911983-12568581-image-a-68_1695851688629.jpg\" height=\"351\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>GB News revealed that the presenter of the show, Dan Wootton, had also been suspended\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the BBC Newscast podcast, the journalist said: &#8216;There is a following that he has that is quite fanatical. I think that&#8217;s possibly the most polite way I can say it and I&#8217;ve already been looking at a few threats that have come into my inbox, and I&#8217;m like, over the evening, is this going to really ramp up and maybe I&#8217;m going to have to watch over my shoulder before I go to my house.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Just before we came in here, there was a tweet that said &#8216;watch your back&#8217;.&#8217; But Fox, whose acting credits include Morse spin-off Lewis and Gosford Park, refused to back down, saying he &#8216;won&#8217;t ever apologise to the mob&#8217; and declaring: &#8216;I stand by every word of what I said.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>GB News, which has previously broken broadcasting rules three times, responded to the controversy not long after the programme aired, to say the remarks were &#8216;totally unacceptable&#8217; and did not &#8216;reflect our values&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>It added it had launched an investigation. The broadcaster put out a further statement revealing it had &#8216;formally suspended&#8217; Fox, who presents shows for the channel, while it carried out its probe.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear at this stage if Fox will ever return to the channel. Staff are said to be calling for him to be permanently exiled.<\/p>\n<p>There have been three breaches of broadcasting rules by GB News since it launched in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The first saw the channel fall foul of the rules by presenting a &#8216;misleading interpretation&#8217; of data around the Covid vaccine &#8216;risking harm to viewers&#8217;. Author Naomi Wolf separately claimed, unchallenged, that the vaccine was comparable to the &#8216;actions of doctors in pre-Nazi Germany&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/27\/23\/75912145-12568581-image-a-71_1695852050490.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Fox, who founded the Reclaim Party in 2020, said: &#8216;We&#8217;re past the watershed so I can say this: show me a single self-respecting man that would like to climb into bed with that woman&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/27\/22\/75911795-0-image-a-66_1695851428283.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Laurence Fox made highly offensive comments about a female political journalist whilst on GB News<\/p>\n<p>The channel has also been reprimanded for breaking impartiality rules when two Tory MPs interviewed Chancellor Jeremy Hunt. It is being investigated over a further six cases involving impartiality and politicians as presenters.<\/p>\n<p>The scandal comes at a time when Mr Marshall, who reportedly owns nearly half of GB News, is said to be putting together a bid for the Telegraph Media group, which includes the Daily Telegraph.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday afternoon the channel said: &#8216;GB News has suspended Dan Wootton following comments made on his programme by Laurence Fox last night. This follows our decision earlier today to formally suspend Mr Fox. We are conducting a full investigation.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Last month the publishers of MailOnline said that they had paused Wootton&#8217;s freelance column for the website following historical allegations that he had used a pseudonym and offered money for sexual material to colleagues while working for another media group \u2013 claims he has strongly denied.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12568581\/Ofcom-probes-GB-News-Laurence-Fox-sexist-rant-Ava-Evans.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ofcom probes GB News after ex-Lewis star Laurence Fox is suspended for vile sexist rant: TV station&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222776,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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