Róisín Gorman: Laurence Fox has fallen prey to his own misogyny
“If you can’t trust a conspiracy-loving, anti-vaxx, anti-feminist troll, then who can you really trust?”
Indirect apology: Laurence Fox said sorry for his remarks on Ava Evans on social media first. Photo by Mark Kerrison/ via Getty
Laurence Fox has claimed he speaks for the “silent majority” after finally cranking out an apology. The silent majority has now blocked his number.
Following days of controversy over his ‘who’d shag that?’ discussion with Dan Wootton on GB News about a young female journalist, Fox says he actually loves, honours and respects women.
Apart from when they say something he doesn’t like and then the 48-year-old father-of-two turns into some laddish parody who gives misogyny a bad name.
Ava Evans was reduced to a ‘that’ and rated for her sexual pull because Fox didn’t like her views on how to tackle male suicide.
As a result of his on-air rant, she’s now been subjected to death threats with messages like ‘watch your back’, but he’s complained he’s the real victim here.
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Lozza’s professions about loving women fall a bit flat when Alliance leader Naomi Long revealed this week that his previous remarks about her appearance led to a ‘troll-fest’, while his X profile describes himself as a ‘trans lesbian of colour’. Why offend just one minority when you can offend several?
Fox has claimed that GB News knew exactly what he was going to say as he and presenter Dan had a good old giggle, reducing a woman to her basic desirability and then rejecting her.
It was like watching the Muppet Show remade by Andrew Tate.
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Wootton, supposedly the professional here, thought it would make things better if he declared it was all OK because Ava was actually “very beautiful”. The GB News free speech agenda appears to have stalled somewhere in the 1950s.
Dan was quick out of the blocks with an apology, then an apology for his poor attempt at an apology, before Fox outed him with his private text messages about how much fun the whole lark had been.
If you can’t trust a conspiracy-loving, anti-vaxx, anti-feminist troll, then who can you really trust?
The warning signs about Fox’s direction of travel were clear when he slagged off black and working-class actors who got famous and then complained about their lack of opportunity.
They were possibly complaining before they got famous, but no one, especially RADA-educated, well-connected Laurence, was listening.
The former actor, and leader of the Reclaim party, with a membership made up of one L Fox, says he’ll now have to rebuild his life and reputation after being cancelled for the second time.
However, unless he’s planning to come back as a David Icke tribute act, I don’t fancy his chances.
