Katie Hopkins

About

Katie Hopkins is a British television personality and a columnist for The Sun newspaper. She is known for holding controversial opinions, which have received wide-spread criticism.

History

Katie Hopkins' first appearance was on the third UK series of The Apprentice in 2007. She gained a negative reception for her views which she expressed on the show, including comments on overweight people and maternity leave.

After a 6 year break from television, Katie Hopkins returned as a guest on This Morning, where she said she judges children on their names and will not let her children play with other children with "lower-class names." The comments sparked outrage from viewers.^[1]

Criticism

Hopkins has incited a number of controversies due to her inflammatory opinions.

In 2013, Katie Hopkins made a comment on Scottish life expectancy based on an NHS report from 2011, after a helicopter had crashed in a pub in Glasgow, killing and injuring several people. She apologized for this comment, stating it was "just bad timing"^[2]

After a Scottish aid worker was diagnosed with Ebola after visiting West Africa, Katie Hopkins tweeted "Little sweaty jocks, sending us Ebola bombs in the form of sweaty Glaswegians just isn't cricket. Scottish NHS sucks."

Katie Hopkins expressed her opinions that all overweight people are lazy and that they need to stop making excuses. After expressing these opinions, Katie Hopkins decided to gain 42 pounds and then lose it all again in order to show that overweight people have no excuses. She filmed the experiment for a television documentary entitled My Fat Story in 2014 (clip below).

Katie Hopkins has made several tweets that ADHD is caused by bad parenting. These were met with negative reception from several support groups and the public.^[3]

YouTuber Prank

On January 30th, 2020, YouTuber Josh Pieters published a video entitled "I Flew Katie Hopkins to Prague to Win a Fake Award." In the video, he awards Hopkins with a Campaign to Unify the Nation Trophy, which is presented as the acronym "C.U.N.T." Within 24 hours, the video received more than 2.7 million views.

In the video, Pieters accused Hopkins of racism, sexism, transphobia, homophobia and other forms of bigotry. He explains that he created a fake website to lure Hopkins to an award ceremony, where she would be presented with the award.

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