An episode of the GB News programme Dan Wootton Tonight has acquired greater than 8,000 complaints, after feedback made on air by actor-turned-activist Laurence Fox.

Media regulator Ofcom, which is formally investigating the incident, stated it had acquired a complete of 8,846 complaints concerning the episode of Wootton‘s present on 26 September.

Fox has confronted a disciplinary listening to with the channel after making a collection of private remarks about political correspondent Ava Evans, a journalist for the web site PoliticsJOE, which have been described as “unacceptable, unjustifiable and indefensible”.

One of his feedback included asking: “Who would want to shag that?”

Both Fox and Wootton, who could possibly be heard laughing in the course of the episode, have been suspended by GB News within the face of an inner inquiry.

Wootton apologised after the present, with Fox additionally eventually saying sorry for the offence triggered.

GB News boss Angelos Frangopoulos stated he was “appalled” by the remarks, including that they weren’t in step with the values of the channel.

A 3rd presenter, Calvin Robinson, was later suspended after showing support for Wootton online.

In an interview with Sky News’s Sophy Ridge following the published, the chief government of Ofcom acknowledged there are “real issues around misogyny” in public discourse.

MailOnline later introduced it had terminated its contract with Wootton, who was a columnist for the web site.

His common column was initially paused in August whereas the publication investigated allegations he used a pseudonym and supplied colleagues cash for sexual materials.

What did Laurence Fox say?

The row began after Fox, talking about Ms Evans, stated on Wootton’s GB News present: “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 want highly effective, sturdy, superb ladies who make nice factors for themselves, we do not want these type of feminist 4.0… they’re pathetic and embarrassing. Who would wish to shag that?”

Fox made the comments to Wootton following Ms Evans’s appearance on the BBC’s Politics Live show, during which she discussed topics including mental health and was critical of a suggestion there should be a minister for men. The discussion was aired live on GB News.

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After the incident, Ms Evans stated she was “really hurt” by Fox’s feedback, which have been about her “body rather than her work”.

She later stated her remarks on the BBC have been “a little rash” and that she was “actually very interested in a brief for a minister on young men’s mental health”.