{"id":185256,"date":"2023-10-03T10:10:36","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T10:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansapidnews.com\/?p=185256"},"modified":"2023-10-03T10:10:36","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T10:10:36","slug":"dan-wootton-might-have-to-crawl-back-to-new-zealand-after-his-gb-news-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansapidnews.com\/celebrity\/dan-wootton-might-have-to-crawl-back-to-new-zealand-after-his-gb-news-mess\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Wootton might have to crawl back to New Zealand after his GB News mess"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last week, Laurence Fox went on Dan Wootton\u2019s GB News show and Fox went on a misogynistic tirade against a white female journalist. Dan Wootton laughed and smirked the whole time, even though (reportedly) his staff and producers tried to shut down Fox and force Wootton to apologize on air just minutes later. Within 24 hours, Wootton was suspended from the British (fake) news channel. Hilariously, the Mail piled on: they officially fired Wootton following a month-long suspension of his column. While GB News hasn\u2019t officially fired Wootton, Byline Times now reports that Wootton has been informed that his services will no longer be necessary. Not only that, Wootton is now such a pariah in the British media that he\u2019s considering a move back to New Zealand. <\/p>\n
\nDan Wootton needs a \u201cmiracle\u201d to save his \u00a3600,000-a-year job as GB News\u2019 star presenter as owner Sir Paul Marshall seeks to \u201cdetoxify\u201d the brand as he bids for the Daily Telegraph, Byline Times can exclusively report. GB News is also cutting ties with a third broadcaster \u2013 Calvin Robinson, who was a regular face on Wootton\u2019s show \u2013 and is reviewing the employment of a number of other employees ahead of a further Byline Times investigation to be published tomorrow.<\/p>\n
And last night a GB News editorial source told this newspaper: \u201cDan Wootton has left the building and a lot of people are relieved. There has been anger and disappointment about all the negative attention. Good journalists have been questioning their futures at the channel. Dan\u2019s face was left off a big promotion last week. It will be a miracle if he\u2019s seen here again.\u201d<\/p>\n
The absence of 40-year-old Wootton has rocked the network he joined as a founding host two years and three months ago, and which Robinson on Friday credited him as being \u201csignificant\u201d to the \u201cbuilding\u201d of through his influence on recruitment both \u201cbehind the cameras as well as on-screen talent\u201d.<\/p>\n
While Wootton smiled through a public appearance on Friday night at Westminster\u2019s Central Hall, this newspaper can reveal that he is privately considering, following the loss on Thursday of his \u00a3250,000-a-year column for MailOnline, quitting the UK to return to his native New Zealand. A source close to the situation told Byline Times: \u201cIt has been made clear to Dan that he will not be broadcasting again on GB News any time soon, just as he will not be writing for MailOnline. Right now, he feels as if he might prefer just to go back to Wellington to be near family.\u201d<\/p>\n
Although the crunch for Wootton at GB News may have seemed to come swiftly following the Ava Evans incident \u2013 in which he smirked as Fox branded Evans a \u201clittle woman\u201d and asked \u201cwho\u2019d want to shag that?\u201d \u2013 Byline Times can reveal that GB News\u2019 founding stakeholder Sir Paul Marshall has been losing patience with the journalist for at least two months.<\/p>\n
Not only did [Wootton\u2019s on-air denials of catfishing and blackmail] place Wootton in breach of his employer\u2019s own Editorial Charter, which outlaws ad hominem attacks on individuals, it highlighted a tabloid presenting style known to be disliked by 64-year-old Sir Paul, who despite having no control over GB News\u2019 output, holds the purse strings on an asset that lost around \u00a328.3 million in the last accounting period, according to new analysis by Byline Times.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
[From Byline Times]<\/p>\n
Basically, Sir Paul Marshall wants to buy the Telegraph and become the Tory kingmaker, and while he\u2019s getting his house in order for the purchase, he\u2019s cleaning house at broke-ass GB News. While Wootton was some kind of \u201cget\u201d for GB News at the time, Marshall has always been queasy about \u201cWootton\u2019s extreme tabloid style.\u201d <\/em> Wootton and Fox\u2019s on-air mess was the final nail in the coffin. There has been a lot of conversation about \u201cwhy this time and not all of hours of hate devoted to the Duchess of Sussex?\u201d<\/em> I\u2019ve seen some of the clips too – there was clearly some corporate policy at GB News that they could say whatever they wanted about Meghan, the more insulting and nasty the better. So I don\u2019t know, I guess GB News is letting the world know that their line in the sand is \u201cbeing misogynistic about white women.\u201d As for Wootton crawling back to New Zealand\u2026 it makes me feel sorry for New Zealand. You know he\u2019ll find some media job there and make everyone\u2019s life miserable.<\/p>\n
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Photos courtesy of GB News & Avalon Red.<\/small><\/p>\n