'Anti-woke' comedian and presenter mysteriously vanishes from GB News | J4VE91B | 2024-04-10 21:08:01
An 'anti-woke' comic who steadily seems on GB News has apparently vanished from the controversial channel in current days.
Leo Kearse, a stand-up comedian from Scotland, has gained a popularity through the years for his right-wing comedy, which challenges phenomena related to cancel culture and supposed left-wing bias on the BBC.
Kearse, 47, commonly seems on GB News as a part of its Headliners programme, and in addition presents his personal show, Saturday Night time Showdown.
But in current days viewers have noticed that Kearse has been missing from his traditional slots, with studies indicating that his absence could possibly be related to an investigation into him by advocacy group Hope Not Hate.
The organisation, which was founded in 2004, has spent 20 years campaigning towards racism and fascism in the UK and abroad, describing itself as 'non-partisan'.
In line with studies in The Times, the group have claimed Kearse is utilizing an nameless account to publish 'hate-filled' rants on social media – Kearse has not been seen on GB News since these claims have been made.
Hope Not Hate is claimed to have linked Kearse to a personal account on the cloud-based messaging web site Telegram which has used phrases considered racist slurs towards individuals from south Asia.
The account can also be stated to have referred to poor, working-class British individuals as 'peasants' while describing Scotland as a 's**thole' that was 'filled with fats female socialist g***s'.
Now deleted, the account posted beneath the identify Neo Glaive and was seen interacting with Buhanka Watch, a channel focusing on the present conflict in Ukraine which Kearse had endorsed up to now.
Homophobic and misogynistic insults have been additionally recorded coming from the account by Hope Not Hate, who additionally famous that the account had supported pseudo-scientific theories, claiming that white individuals 'genetically development in the direction of increased intelligence'.
They stated: 'His endorsement of race science, abuse of ethnic teams and working-class Brits and celebration of the Moscow assault must be a pink line for GB News and the advertisers who pay their payments.'
Kearse didn't present his standard Saturday night time present over the weekend, sparking suspicion that GB News have suspended him from internet hosting duties until the allegations are cleared up.
Up to now, the comedian has not acknowledged the allegations and his GB Information exhibits are still referred to in his Twitter bio. GB Information are additionally yet to touch upon the investigation by Hope Not Hate.
If Leo Kearse has made his last look on the divisive information channel, it'll be the newest case of a number leaving the station after on-line controversies.
Laurence Fox, 45, was sacked by GB News in October 2023 following a string of remarks about Ava Evans, a political correspondent, together with asking, 'Who would need to shag that?'
Fox was initially suspended before being arrested and sacked on the same day – he was arrested 'on suspicion of conspiring to commit felony injury to ULEZ cameras and encouraging or aiding offences to be committed'.
Metro.co.uk have contacted GB Information for extra info.
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