There was more. “Fox hosted a weekly show on the channel and made the comments while appearing as a contributor on Dan Wootton's show … Fellow host Calvin Robinson, who was suspended after voicing support for Fox and Wootton, has also been fired”. God has once again moved in mysterious ways, and has not intervened on behalf of the Poundshop Pontiff.
Do go on. “In a video last Thursday, Fox apologised for the language he used and predicted his sacking, which he said would open GB News up to ‘complete destruction’ … ‘GB News had one opportunity and that opportunity was to stand up and defend free speech, which they haven't done,’ he said”. The kind of language designed to leave GB News no alternative to sacking.
And just to show that Dear Dear Larry’s campaign had developed not necessarily to his advantage, the Beeb has also told today that “Actor Laurence Fox has been arrested on suspicion of conspiring to commit criminal damage to Ulez cameras … The Metropolitan Police did not name him but said a 45-year-old man was also accused of encouraging or assisting offences to be committed”. Why would the Met’s finest be doing that?
Ah well. Larry had used some most unfortunate language in an interview yesterday. As one Tweeter put it, “It comes off the back of yesterday’s Rumble interview with Maajid Nawaz, where on ULEZ, he said he’d be ‘out there with my angle grinder’ and would be ‘happy to be arrested’”.
Sacked? Oh SHIT!
But what of the third actor in all of this, the singularly repellant Dan Wootton? Haven’t GB News sacked him too? He was, after all, the presenter who, after Fox sneered “Who'd want to shag that?” laughed openly. He tried to do a little contrition, but Dear Dear Larry undermined him by releasing an exchange of messages showing that Desperate Dan really did think it was all a hoot.
Dear Larry. Dear dear Larry. Dear sacked and arrested Larry
While Calvin Robinson begins his campaign to monetise his dismissal as an alleged “Crusade Against Cancel Culture”, Wootton remains silent on Twitter, X, or whatever we’re supposed to call it this week. His bio still claims “Executive Editor and Presenter of Dan Wootton Tonight”, but then also claims he’s a columnist for Mail Online, even thought they’ve sacked him.
His producer, Ben Leo, has taken the reference to The Desperate Dan Show off his own bio. And what we know of Wootton’s conduct during that exchange with the already sacked Fox is that he disregarded more than one instruction from management, which on its own is textbook Gross Misconduct. So they could bin him on that alone. Maybe his lawyers are playing a blinder.
Or, more likely, there is negotiation going on between the parties, which will involve a sum of money, and a form of words which will enable Wootton to escape total and abject humiliation. That would show the world that Mr Angel Cake Frangipane, or whatever the big boss at GB News calls himself, may not be quite as tough and uncompromising as he’d like us all to think.
Still, as the song goes, two out of three ain’t bad. Just rejoice at that news.
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18 comments:
HIGNGY should be interesting on Friday. Richard Ayowade is the host, and he is Foxie's brother in law. Or similar
Angelo Frangipani is having a clean up at GB News as required in order to acquire The Telegraph.
The Three Mouseketeers.
Squeak up, rodents.
Slowly eating popcorn moment.
We may allow ourselves a brief period of rejoicing.
The ever ridiculous Calvin Robinson has taken to Twitter (aka X) grifting for pennies to keep him in the lifestyle he has become accustomed to.
Apparently the investigation into Desperate Dan is “ongoing”. Presumably they’re still trying to find Martin Branning in the phone book*.
* Young people: ask your grandparents.
Sorry calv … god wants his cassock back
Actually, it’s Vicky Coren Mitchell
First they came for the tossers.
Er............
Then they came for some more tossers..........
Dan Wooton probably have a few more dick picks in the bag...
@gillette
It’s actually Victoria Coren-Mitchell hosting HIGNFY tomorrow
Yes, and worse than being some other tosser's brother-in-law, poor Victoria is arch tosser Giles Coren's *actual* brother.
*sister
Oops. Don't know where I got that idea from. Probably an old reference and a senior moment. Lol
Thanks, Anonymous 22.53.
But, hey, it's a modern world........
I'm not sure casual transphobia is quite cricket Bertie
I'm sure it's not, Mark. And if you can find us some examples you can depend on us all roundly condemning them.
Since you raise the matter, can we confidently aver that even *cricket* is actually 'quite cricket' in this modern relativist world? Last time I looked chaps were playing in all kinds of funny clothes, with balls of varying hues, under spotlights, only a score of overs and bashing the ball all over the place. Bloody game seemed to be transitioning into baseball.
Neither fish nor fowl if you ask me.
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