Former actor’s comments about who would want to ‘shag’ female reporter ‘unambiguously misogynistic’, says watchdog

An episode of Dan Wootton Tonight on GB News in which the former actor Laurence Fox questioned who would want to “shag” a female journalist broke broadcasting rules, the media watchdog has ruled.

The remarks made by Fox, the leader of the rightwing Reclaim party, in which he asked, “Who would want to shag that?” about JOE Media’s political correspondent Ava Evans received 8,867 complaints.

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