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…Wootton, who is the highest-paid host on £600,000 a year on GB News…
GB News’ chief executive Angelos Frangopoulos wrote to staff this afternoon announcing the suspension and promising to “investigate the comments made on air by Laurence Fox last night”.
Byline Times understands that it was the threat of “staff insurrection” over how Wootton, the show’s executive editor, handled the segment – and the apparent mocking of production staff (per Fox’s tweets) – which led to Wootton’s suspension.
One senior host told this newspaper it had been “inevitable”.
Other GB News sources suggest Fox and Wootton will never again appear on the channel. Senior newsroom sources have said Frangopoulos ignored warnings from staff members that the continual employment of Fox and Wootton was “an accident waiting to happen”. One senior presenter said: “It’s about time. But why only suspend Wootton? They should get rid of him for good.”
Employees have painted a picture of a “rudderless” organisation that has lost hundreds of experienced journalists in the past two years, driven out by “presenter power” and a management team which refuses to listen to their warnings about potential breaches of the Ofcom code, and which now has a staff heavy with “uni leavers and ideologues”.
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Laurence Fox has apologised to journalist Ava Evans over his comments on GB News.
In a 15-minute mea culpa, the actor-turned-political-activist said his comments were "demeaning" and "not representative of who I am".
However, he said he maintained "the sentiment" of his comments, saying he was angry about what he said was Ms Evans "demeaning" male suicide.
During those comments about Ms Evans - a journalist for the website PoliticsJOE - he asked host Dan Wootton: "Who would want to shag that?"
In the video, posted on his account on X, formerly known as Twitter, he said: "I could have and should have expressed it better.
"It's not right, it's demeaning to Ava, so I'm sorry for demeaning you in that way, however angry I am with you still for doing that, and it demeans me because it's not representative of who I am.
"I'm not saying any of this stuff because I know I'm going to get sacked tomorrow. I'm saying it to clear my own conscience."
He added: "I express my apology to Ava for the language used, but I maintain the sentiment."
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