06 December 2023 , 18:44
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Carol Vorderman has snubbed a bizarre approach from right-wing TV station GB News.
The chief executive Angelos Frangopoulos messaged Carol after she quit her job on the BBC and asked to meet up. She did not reply to his text, and a TV source said: “Carol wouldn’t touch that channel with a barge-pole.”
Carol, 62, had to step down from her presenting job on BBC Radio Wales last month after breaching new social media guidelines by criticising the Government.
The approach from GB News came despite a number of personal on-air attacks on Carol by presenters and guests on the station. A second TV source said: “They seem to have forgotten how vile some of their rhetoric has been about her.”
Last month, GB News host Patrick Christys was forced to interrupt and apologise when a guest on his show made a comment about Carol’s breasts while live on air.
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Mr Frangopoulos’s request for talks comes as bosses at GB News try to detoxify the channel, which is losing money and suffering woeful ratings of around 34,000 a day. Recent accounts showed it lost more than £30million in the year to May 2022.
The channel has been in turmoil since October, when it had to sack Laurence Fox for sexist comments he made about journalist Ava Evans to presenter Dan Wootton, who was suspended. The channel has recently signed Peter Andre.
A GB News source said: “There was no firm offer but we are always open-minded to both left and right voices on the channel.”