Katie Hopkins

  • 20 December 2005

Occupation

TV Presenter

Katie Hopkins Fired From LBC Radio Role

By Ed Biggs in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 26 May 2017

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Hopkins was axed from her Sunday LBC Radio slot this week, a few days after a controversial tweet calling for a "final solution" after the Manchester bombing.

Controversial rent-a-gob Katie Hopkins has taken things too far, with a recent tweet concerning the Manchester terror attack calling for a “final solution” leading to LBC sacking her from her radio show.

The radio station announced on Friday morning (May 26th) that the divisive media personality and Daily Mail columnist, 42, will walk away from LBC by mutual consent. Tweeting the news, the station confirmed: “LBC and Katie Hopkins have agreed that Katie will leave LBC effective immediately.”

In the wake of the suicide bombing that claimed the lives of 22 people and injuring 119 others at the MEN Arena in Manchester this week, Hopkins sparked a new peak of backlash, even by her standards, after calling for a “final solution” regarding Islamic terrorism.

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Sir Alan Sugar Branded 'Out Of Touch' After Claiming People Are Not Really Poor In The U.K.

By Ed Biggs in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 04 October 2015

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'The Apprentice' star claimed that because people owned televisions and microwave ovens, they couldn't be poor.

Businessman and reality TV star Sir Alan Sugar has been branded as an ‘idiot’ and ‘out of touch’ after he suggested in a new interview that poverty doesn’t exist in Britain because poor people own microwaves and televisions.

The 68 year old knight of the realm, who is conservatively estimated to have a personal wealth of around £900 million, was speaking to The Times Magazine in an article that was published on Sunday (October 4th) when he went on an extraordinary rant, claiming that people should travel back in time 60 years to know what poverty is really like.

Image caption Sir Alan Sugar claimed that people aren't really poor in the UK because they own microwaves

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Sir Alan Sugar Tells Katie Hopkins To "Shut Up" After Her Cilla Black Comments

By Ed Biggs in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 03 August 2015

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Hopkins' calling out of celebrity mourners on Twitter upset many, including her former 'Apprentice' boss.

Sir Alan Sugar has told his former protégé Katie Hopkins to “shut up” and called her an idiot, criticising her poorly-timed tweets mocking celebrities who have been mourning the death of Cilla Black over the last 24 hours.

The oft-controversial former ‘Apprentice’ and ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ star Hopkins, now a columnist for The Sun, sparked outrage on Sunday (August 2nd) when she took aim at the amount of tributes that were pouring in for the 72 year old on Twitter. She wrote “If there are any celebrities who haven't yet tweeted their sadness over Cilla, please report to Sincerity Services immediately #rushtogush.”

Image caption Sir Alan Sugar slammed former 'Apprentice' contestant Katie Hopkins for her comments over Cilla Black's death

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Katie Hopkins Reveals Death Fears Over Brain Surgery

By Ed Biggs in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 02 August 2015

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The divisive columnist revealed there's a slim chance of paralysis or even death when she undergoes an operation to cure her epilepsy.

Controversial media pundit Katie Hopkins has revealed that she’s terrified that she may “end up paralysed” and may not even survive the brain surgery she’s due to undergo in an attempt to cure her epilepsy.

In an interview with The Sun newspaper, for whom she writes a regular column that she uses as a platform for her notoriously divisive opinions, the 40 year old former ‘Apprentice’ contestant revealed concerns that the surgery, which carries a 1% of death, might leave her three children (India, Poppy and Maximilian) without a mother.

Image caption Katie Hopkins is undergoing brain surgery to try to cure her nocturnal epilepsy

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Katie Hopkins Slams Rita Ora's 'X Factor' Appointment

By Ed Biggs in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 20 June 2015

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Rita Ora was confirmed as the fourth judge on 'The X Factor's panel for its upcoming 12th series, and the reaction has been mixed to say the least.

Katie Hopkins has become the latest celebrity to launch a criticism of Rita Ora’s accession to ‘The X Factor’s panel, predicting that the pop star will be “hopeless” on the ITV show when it returns in September.

“If her time on ‘The Voice’ is anything to go by, she will be hopeless at telling the truth, congratulate everyone no matter how poorly they perform and fail to get a single act through to the final,” the acid-tongued Hopkins wrote in her regular column in The Sun on Friday (June 19th).

Image caption Katie Hopkins has also piled in on Rita Ora's accession to 'The X Factor'

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Katie Hopkins Reported To Social Services Over Twitter

By Ed Biggs in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 14 May 2015

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The controversial Sun columnist says she got a call from social services concerning the welfare of her children, based on a complaint about her Twitter feed.

Katie Hopkins has revealed that she recently received a telephone call from social services concerned about the welfare of her child, apparently based on what she writes on social media.

The 40 year old former contestant on ‘The Apprentice’ was speaking to Management Today and claimed: “I did have a call the other day from part of social services that they were concerned about the welfare of my child based on my Twitter feed, which someone thought might be damaging them. They said they had to call to follow up.”

Image caption Katie Hopkins apparently got reported to social services

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Katie Hopkins - British LGBT Awards at the Landmark Hotel, London at Landmark Hotel - London, United Kingdom - Friday 24th April 2015

Katie Hopkins Petition Grows After Migrant "Cockroach" Comments

By Michael West in Movies / TV / Theatre on 20 April 2015

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Katie Hopkins said stupid things.

Over 150,000 people have signed a petition calling on Katie Hopkins to be sacked by tabloid newspaper The Sun after she described migrants as "cockroaches". Writing in her column, Hopkins said those desperate to reach Britain after humanitarian disasters in their own countries were "feral humans" - calling on the government to deploy "gunships" to stop them landing on shore.

Image caption Katie Hopkins faced a huge backlash for her comments on migrants looking to escape disasters in their own country

Hopkins, who's made a career of her shocking opinions, was criticized heavily on Twitter.

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Pink Replies To Body Shamers On Twitter

By Ed Biggs in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 13 April 2015

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The 'Just Give Me A Reason' singer became the latest star to take the battle to the trolls after a picture taken of her at the weekend attracted a ton of negative comments about her body shape.

Pink has become the latest celebrity to speak out against social media body-shaming. The 35 year old singer took to Twitter after receiving some barbed criticisms about her physique, having attended a cancer benefit evening on Saturday (April 11th).

“I can see that some of you are concerned about me from your comments about my weight,” she tweeted on Sunday evening, via a short statement she had prepared and then screen-grabbed.

Image caption Pink responded to the body-shamers on Sunday

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Katie Hopkins' Opinion On Dementia Attracts Criticism

By Charlotte Court in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 07 April 2015

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The outspoken commentator has ruffled feathers once again

Katie Hopkins can be accused of many things but no one can claim that she is not doing her job. As a woman whose employment depends on her ability to say the most inappropriate thing she can think of to maintain constant public attention, she remains top of her game.

Image caption Katie Hopkins has been busy tweeting controversy again

The outlandish columnist has posted yet another series of tweets that have appalled the nation, this time apparently annoyed about dementia patients.

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Fox News Anchor Chris Wallace Apologises For Kelly Clarkson Weight Comments

By Ed Biggs in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 07 April 2015

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Since giving birth to her daughter last year, the singer has been forced to endure comments about her post-baby figure, and Fox News anchor Chris Wallace has apologised for his remarks.

The Fox News anchor at the centre of the Kelly Clarkson “fat-shaming” controversy this weekend has publicly apologised to the singer at to those offended by his comments. Chris Wallace had made the remarks during an interview with conservative radio pundit Mike Gallagher on the latter’s show.

In a statement issued to Mediaite on Sunday night, the 67 year old anchor said: “I sincerely apologize to Kelly Clarkson for my offensive comment. I admire her remarkable talent and that should have been the focus of any discussion about her.”

Image caption Kelly Clarkson was the subject of yet another jibe about her figure

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