I’d never heard of her. Nor had most of us down here. I’m not sure if her brief infamy was intended to drum up interest in a planned Big Brother thing but it hasn’t worked.
I feel confident in saying that I speak for Australia when I say she can fuck right off and when she has fucked off she can fuck right off again.
Who the hell is Katie Hopkins?
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I just read the same thing in The Guardian. Never heard of her either. Mind you I’ve never heard of 99% of the ‘celebrities’ on these shows.
Barney Rubble’s response wasn’t exactly hard-hitting. “Pack your bongo and get out”. I don’t even know what that means. Did he mean to say soapbox?
Some research suggests it is Aussie military slang.
Bongos – In general, equipment; often refers to field equipment, webbing and/or packs carried on the person. Pack up your bongos and get on that truck.
They issue bongos to the Australian military?
Crikey, that’s hitting the enemy pretty hard. Add a few kazoos and it’s pretty much WMD time.
They’re all electric warriors.
Haven’t the enemy suffered enough?
Bongo from the film Expresso Bongo. Cliff plays a character who is renamed Bongo Herbert, which became rhyming slang meaning nonexpert.
“We’ve had enough of texperts’ – J. Lennon, 2016
Bongo can also refer to the moment Eric Morecambe called Ringo, Bongo.
Bongo therefore is slang for Ringo Starr meaning ‘gone too far.
Insignificant person, made a career being as foul and hateful as possible, in order to generate a public profile here in the UK. Sacked as talk show host when her rancid bloviating made even execs at talk radio station LBC blench when after an Islamist terror attack in Manchester, she called for a “final solution”. Many many more examples of her various excretions abound online. She’s not worth a kilobyte of anyones attention
But she does have a point … no, hang on. Waste of oxygen contrarian spouting hate and bollocks to get noticed. Not even sure if he views are real or designed to create shock and headlines.
The correct question is “Who the hell was Katie Hopkins?” She hasn’t been heard from ever since she got kicked off Twitter. She was even too extreme for the Daily Mail, and that takes some doing. Also mildly famous for being photographed shagging (sorry, “romping with”) somebody else’s husband in a field. She’s a skid mark on the national underpants.
The other question is just what were Ch 7 thinking?
Any idiot could have seen this comingt
I had certainly never heard of her but that doesn’t mean much. I suspect an appearance on shows like that is more for people who aspire to be celebrities rather than anyone you ever heard of.
I remember watching an episode of the Aussie version of “I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here” and the only people I had ever heard of were the two girls from Googlebox Australia. Now that’s low grade star power.
Some disconnect here surely?
Thought the idea of the UK banishing its criminal undesirables and other lumpenproletariat neer-do-wells to Oz was that they couldn’t come back?
I don’t think you’re speaking for the Australians who issued her a visa in the first place JW. Apparently awarded, according to the Home Affairs Minister, on the basis of “potential benefit to the community”.
Almost like they didn’t know (or care) that Hopkins is and always has been a self promoting racist.
@garyjohn and ironically the only sensible thing she said was to lambast those who gave her a seat on a plane ahead of those trying to get home.
I read that it was “potential benefit to the economy“, not to the community.
The only conceivable ‘benefit’ to the economy would be a run on buying masks and small arms ahead of a coup attempt by libertarian retards.
She was presented with a Campaign to Unify the Nation Trophy last year.
FWIIW, I see Hopkins as a paid contraversalist who says unpleasant things for money.
I would not be the least bit surprised to see her on GB news in the near future, possibly doing a double act with Farage as a Poundland Thatcher & Reagan tribute act.
Appeared on The Apprentice where her USP was nastiness, which she then kept doubling down on to hew out a media career. She got kicked of Twitter, so if you mute her name on there too it’s as if she never existed and has been erased from time, which I seem to remember was a punishment available to the courts of Gallifrey in Doctor Who. You can safely forget all about her again now.
She’s all for foreigners being deported. I can’t imagine that she will have any issues with this decision.
She did give us the best ever apology from the press for getting their facts wrong….
She’s the worst kind of shameless media whore – someone who’s up for saying absolutely anything for money – the more unpleasant the better (paying).
I’d be amazed if Sir Brillo of Pad would erase what little is left of his credibility by sticking around at GB News if his backers sign her up for some kind of presenting gig there.
She doesn’t even have the common courtesy to please the press in Belgium
Well she just hasn’t earned it yet baby
Who the hell is Channel 7?
It’s Australian. They have at least seven channels down there. It’s literally the future. No coal in the bath for them.
Not as good as Channel 9
Eth eth eth Chris Waddle etc
Hopkins is a lamentable, calculating piece of shit but please tell me I am right (or wrong) that Waddle once said on TV “I never not said that”, or similar?
@attackdog
Are you sure you’re not thinking of Graham Taylor’s “Do I not like that” and “Can we not knock it?” from the ill-advised documentary he let them shoot of his term as England manager.
The poker-faced man to GT’s left is Phil Neal who was last heard of working as a head on Easter Island.
While a decent man and a good manager at First Div/Premier League level, GT was totally out of his depth as the ashen-faced supremo of the national team.,
The full doc is well worth watching and up on YouTube if you’ve never seen it
Yes, by all accounts a generous, gracious and principled man ( I seem to recall him calling out a ‘fan’ who was directing abuse at an England player) who achieved a great deal in club football, but extremely illustrative of how limited England managers were in a tactical sense.
A commercial tv station with the current big brother rights. She was a secret surprise VIP for the show. However it never got to that due to her Instagram rants before there was any marketing around her imminent appearance on the show.
Small mercies I guess.
Possibly just an alien life form sent to check out the human race.
I am massively disappointed. I was hoping when she went to Aus that it would be a permanent move. Instead she opens her gob and we get her back lickity split.
Vile evil piece of shite.
Leave it to The Shovel…
https://www.theshovel.com.au/2021/07/18/australian-couple-stranded-overseas-told-theyre-not-racist-enough-to-gain-entry-to-country/?fbclid=IwAR1DtXG0eFKSTFTkpX1Gu9KKccfTYbY46GP9KDzuc9L-ZR7-shb2dS6tRT0
The woman is a vile publicity seeking professional agitator of the very worst kind. That British media outlets have courted her, and given her the oxygen of oxygen is to their eternal shame.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Hopkins
I agree she is the scum of the earth.
I expect she’s loving being talked about again, even here.
Doesn’t matter how insulting you are towards her, as long as she gets mentioned it’s all fine to her.
I really fear for her children, being exposed to that level of toxic hatred, and the consequences at school etc.
I would expect they are well schooled in this kind of shit and are the apple of mummy’s eyes.
Tomorrow belongs to them.
Sadly, this is probably true.
I did wonder about that. She lost them the family home back in 2018 after losing the libel case with Jack Monroe.
She will have 10 minutes to gloat in the spotlight but she’s managed to make herself too repugnant to most media outlets. Her media appearances – even if you include the wing nut hard right US shows have mostly been in single digits since 2015.
I recall she wouldn’t let them mix with the commoners at school – those kids with chavvy names like Kylie and Jack. Adolf and Marine were acceptable, presumably.
I recall the big kerfuffle on This Morning (don’t judge me) when she was sneering at parents who had named their children after place names, before it was helpfully pointed out that her daughter is called India.
Yebbut, according to her Wikipedia page she is quoted as saying that ‘India is not related to a place’. Obvious really, innit?
She thinks highly of them.
‘My son is good-looking, my daughters are not’
There’s a reason for that, Katie 🤔
Hopkins used to live in Exeter where I live. I even saw her in our local butchers and, to my continuing regret, I didn’t give her a piece of my mind. Appalling person.
Ignoring her is best! She would probably love to get into a public argument with someone: it’s just not worth it.