Dan Wootton Leaves GB News to Start ‘Free Speech Platform’ Amid Sexism Row

Dan Wootton on Tuesday announced that he has left GB News to launch his “own independent platform” after a British media regulator ruled that his show broke broadcasting rules by allowing a guest to make “unambiguously misogynistic” comments on air.

Wootton had been suspended from the right-wing U.K. TV channel along with contributor Laurence Fox following the offending broadcast in September in which Fox made a series of derogatory remarks about a female journalist while Wootton laughed. Despite making multiple apologies for the incident at the time, Wootton now says he needs supporters’ help starting his new platform “that will NOT be regulated by the Ofcommunist censors.”

Ofcom on Monday ruled that Fox had made “degrading and demeaning” comments on Wootton’s show last year, in which he said of journalist Ava Evans: “Who would want to shag that?” The actor-turned-political activist also called Evans a “little woman” and said: “Show me a single self-respecting man that would like to climb into bed with that woman ever, ever, who wasn’t an incel.”

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