Laurence Fox's vile rant about journalist Ava Evans on GB News in full
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Laurence Fox has sparked outrage after making vile comments about a female journalist on GB News.
The broadcaster is investigating the ‘totally unacceptable’ comments made by the 45-year-old, who was formerly an actor before being dropped by his agent over comments about racism.
During the awful rant, made on Dan Wootton’s Tonight show on Tuesday (September 26), Fox described Joe political correspondent Ava Evans as a ‘little woman’ and added: ‘Who would want to shag that?’
Evans shared a clip of the comments on social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, with the caption: ‘Laurence Fox just did a whole speech on GB News on why men apparently won’t shag me?’ which has been viewed more than five million times as of Wednesday morning.
In a follow-up tweet to her nearly 100 000 followers she added that the footage made her feel ‘physically sick.’
Fox’s vile rant can be read in full below.
Laurence Fox’s vile rant
‘We’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’t an Incel?
‘That little woman has been fed, spoon-fed oppression day after day after day… starting with the lie of the gender wage gap, and she’s sat there and I’m going, if I met you in a bar and that was like sentence three, chances of me just walking away are just huge.
‘We need powerful strong amazing women who make great points for themselves, we don’t need these sort of feminist 4.0… they’re pathetic and embarrassing. Who would want to shag that?’
In response to Fox’s ugly comments, Wootton, laughing, said: ‘Well, look, she, I’m just going to provide a touch of balance from her because she did actually respond to this earlier today, saying that she regretted her comments but she didn’t apologise.’
He added: ‘And she’s a very beautiful woman, Laurence, very beautiful woman.’
The discussion came after Evans appeared on BBC’s Politics Live on Monday about male mental health.
In a statement posted to X, GB News said: ‘Comments made tonight on GB News by Laurence Fox were totally unacceptable.
‘What he said does not reflect our values and we apologise unreservedly for the comments and the offence they have caused.
‘We have launched an investigation and will be apologising to the individual involved.’
‘We seek to tackle the issue and not the person, which I intend to stress again on air tonight.’
In an earlier message, he had said: ‘I apologise for what was said during the course of my show and should have done this immediately on air. This is not what our channel is about.’
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