Laurence Fox – latest: GB News suspends presenter Calvin Robinson as Ava Evans issues new response

Fox has said he’s completed a ‘disciplinary hearing’ but cannot ‘speak freely’ about it

Laurence Fox says he expects to be fired issuing half-apology for GB News sexist rant

GB News presenter Calvin Robinson has said the broadcaster has suspended him after he shared his support for Dan Wootton over Laurence Fox’s comments on his show.

Robinson, who hosts a religious current affairs programme on the channel, said in a social media post on Friday that he would not appear on Dan Wootton Tonight without the suspended presenter, claiming “if he falls, we all fall”.

Wootton and Fox, an actor-turned-politician, was suspended from the channel after Fox made a series of remarks about political correspondent Ava Evans, which included asking “who would want to shag that?” during Wootton’s show on Tuesday.

On Friday, Fox said he had completed a “disciplinary hearing” ahead of his rumoured sacking from GB News.

Meanwhile, Ms Evans spoke out about the comments, describing them as “unforgiveable”.

Key Points

• GB News chief ‘horrified' by sexist comments
• MailOnline sacks already suspended Dan Wootton
• GB News programme prompts 7,300 Ofcom complaints
• Channel suspends Wootton pending investigation
• Laurence Fox has disciplinary hearing at GB News but cannot ‘speak freely’ about it

[30 September 2023 03:00 · Eleanor Noyce]

MPs who host shows on GB News accused of ‘accepting’ Laurence Fox’s ‘vile’ comments about journalist Ava Evans

Journalist Ava Evans has claimed that MPs who present GB News and have not spoken out against Laurence Fox’s “vile” comments about her are “accepting” of them.

Good Morning Britain’s Susanna Reid asked Ms Evans if it is appropriate for Conservative MPs to appear on a channel that has broadcast “this content”.

Ms Evans said the fact that some MPs who present on GB News have not spoken out against what was said by Fox and fellow presenter Dan Wootton implies “they have accepted it”.

[30 September 2023 04:00 · Eleanor Noyce]

Laurence Fox: Journeyman from acting dynasty who became resident ranting sexist on Right wing TV

“I say quite a lot of unfortunate things,” Laurence Fox admitted during an appearance on Good Morning Britain back in 2020. “But I think it’s really important for one to express one’s opinion, and for that opinion to be attacked or taken down with bad ideas or better ideas.” Since then, the actor has banged the free-speech drum repeatedly, stressing his right to “express one’s opinion”.

And he has also said a lot more “unfortunate things” in his new capacity as the hard right’s resident contrarian, culminating in his appearance on Dan Wootton’s GB News show on Tuesday night, when he made offensive and misogynistic comments about the political journalist Ava Evans. “Show me a single self-respecting man that would like to climb into bed with that woman ever, ever, who wasn’t an incel,” he said. “We don’t need those sorts of feminist 4.0. They’re pathetic and embarrassing, Who’d want to shag that?”

A member of the Fox acting clan once best known for his cosy role as a TV detective, Laurence Fox has swapped ITV for GB News and become an ‘anti-woke’ outrage merchant. How did he get here, asks Katie Rosseinsky?:

[30 September 2023 05:00 · Eleanor Noyce]

ICYMI: Piers Morgan shares his verdict on Laurence Fox’s GB News rant

Piers Morgan has called Laurence Fox a “disgusting piece of misogynist trash” over his on-air remarks about journalist Ava Evans.

Fox, 45, has been suspended by GB News after he made a series of derogatory comments about Evans, a political correspondent for the online news site Joe, during a live interview with Dan Wootton on the right-leaning channel.

“Show me a single self-respecting man that would like to climb into bed with that woman ever, ever, who wasn’t an incel,” Fox declared of Evans on Tuesday night (26 September).

[30 September 2023 06:00 · Eleanor Noyce]

GB News boss apologises for ‘appalling’ Laurence Fox comments

On-air comments by Laurence Fox about a female journalist went “way past the limits of acceptance”, the boss of GB News has said.

Angelos Frangopoulos said he was “appalled” by Fox’s remarks, which were broadcast on an episode of the channel’s Dan Wootton Tonight show on Tuesday.

Actor-turned-politician Fox has undergone a disciplinary hearing with the channel after he made a series of comments about political correspondent Ava Evans, including asking “who would want to shag that?”.

More here:

[30 September 2023 06:06 · Anuj Pant]

Ava Evans says Laurence Fox’s comments about her were ‘unforgivable’

Ava Evans has described on-air comments made about her by Laurence Fox on GB News as “unforgivable”.

“It would have been horrible for a woman to hear she was being discussed in those terms in the pub,” Ms Evans said.

“It was demeaning. It was dehumanising.”

[30 September 2023 07:23 · Matt Mathers]

ICYMI - Laurence Fox: Journeyman from acting dynasty who became resident ranting sexist on right wing TV

A member of the Fox acting clan once best known for his cosy role as a TV detective, Laurence Fox has swapped ITV for GB News and become an ‘anti-woke’ outrage merchant. How did he get here, asks Katie Rosseinsky?

Read Katie’s full piece here:

[30 September 2023 09:10 · Matt Mathers]

‘Alarming’ to see calls for GB News to be shut down - MP

A senior Conservative MP has said it is “alarming” to see calls for GB News to be shut down because of the Laurence Fox scandal.

The broadcaster has come under fire after Mr Fox made widely condemned sexual comments about journalist Eva Evan on presenter Dan Wooton’s show.

Some have called for the broadcaster to be taken off air amid the ongoing row over the incident, but David Davis, the former Brexit secretary, disagrees.

“It is alarming to see calls for @GBNEWS to be shut down in the wake of Laurence Fox’s comments,” he wrote on X. “Those pushing for it clearly lack any comprehension of free speech.”