Ofcom Set To Receive 60,000 Complaints Over Gb News Pedophile Joke
A British advocacy group has said it will present more than 60,000 complaints to Ofcom about a Gb News presenter’s suggestion that the LGBTQ+ community includes pedophiles.
Ofcom is already “carefully assessing” more than 1,000 complaints about the Gb News Headliners show during which, discussing Mariann Budde’s sermon in which she quietly implored Donald Trump to have mercy on LGBTQ+ people, comedian Josh Howie said the community included pedophiles, “if you’re doing the full inclusion there.”
The Good Law Project has since posted an online petition that has attracted more than 60,000 complaints and says it will send the complaints to Ofcom on Monday – the last working day it has left to complain before the 20-day window elapses. Ofcom is under no obligation to probe any incident regardless of the number of complaints.
“Gb News is no stranger to spouting hatred and toxic lies,” the petition reads. “They take pride in it,...
Ofcom is already “carefully assessing” more than 1,000 complaints about the Gb News Headliners show during which, discussing Mariann Budde’s sermon in which she quietly implored Donald Trump to have mercy on LGBTQ+ people, comedian Josh Howie said the community included pedophiles, “if you’re doing the full inclusion there.”
The Good Law Project has since posted an online petition that has attracted more than 60,000 complaints and says it will send the complaints to Ofcom on Monday – the last working day it has left to complain before the 20-day window elapses. Ofcom is under no obligation to probe any incident regardless of the number of complaints.
“Gb News is no stranger to spouting hatred and toxic lies,” the petition reads. “They take pride in it,...
- 2/12/2025
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
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