Who is Ava Evans? The political reporter targeted
by Laurence Fox’s ‘incel’ comments
Stella
Akinwumi
Thursday 28
Sep 2023 9:06 am
Ava Evans
known as Ava Santina on X, formerly Twitter, is the political journalist at the
centre of Laurence Fox’s ‘sick’ rant on Tuesday’s GB News.
The
broadcaster is investigating the ‘totally unacceptable’ comments made by the
45-year-old, who was formerly an actor before being dropped by his agent over
comments about racism.
During the
awful rant, made on Dan Wootton’s Tonight show on Tuesday (September 26), Fox
described Joe political correspondent Ava Evans as a ‘little woman’ and added:
‘Who would want to shag that?’
Ava shared
a clip of the comments on social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, with
the caption: ‘Laurence Fox just did a whole speech on GB News on why men
apparently won’t shag me?’
Here’s all
you need to know about the female journalist.
Who is Ava
Evans?
Ava Evans
Ava Evans
is a political correspondent (Picture: Ava Evans)
Ava is a
political correspondent for the online news site Joe and usually covers
Westminster and trade unions for the publisher.
She was
also a former producer at LBC.
The GB News
clip she shared has been viewed more than five million times as of Wednesday
morning.
In a
follow-up tweet to her nearly 100,000 followers she added that the footage made
her feel ‘physically sick.’
During a
recent sit down on Politics Live, Ava discussed male mental health.
She said:
‘I feel like it feeds into the culture a little bit, this “minister for men”
argument.
Dan Wootton
suspended and investigated by GB News over Laurence Fox's misogynistic remarks
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Laurence
Fox's vile rant about journalist Ava Evans on GB News in full
‘In my mind
there should be a minister for mental health which should be all encompassing.
I mean you’ve got 7million children waiting for prescriptions for mental
health.
‘It’s a
crisis that’s syndemic throughout the country not specific to men and I think a
lot of ministers come and bandi this about to sort of make an enemy out of
women.
Carol
Vorderman, Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid have thrown their support behind Ava,
with the Uncensored frontman sharing: ‘What he said does not reflect our values
and we apologise unreservedly for the comments and the offence they have
caused.
We’re past
the watershed so I can say this: show me a single self-respecting man that
would like to climb into bed with that woman, ever, ever, who wasn’t an Incel?
‘That
little woman has been fed, spoon-fed oppression day after day after day…
starting with the lie of the gender wage gap, and she’s sat there and I’m
going, if I met you in a bar and that was like sentence three, chances of me
just walking away are just huge.
‘We need
powerful strong amazing women who make great points for themselves, we don’t
need these sort of feminist 4.0… they’re pathetic and embarrassing. Who would
want to shag that?’
On Good
Morning Britain, Susanna also said that any MP’s who appeared on GB News should
‘come off’ if the channel ‘entertained that sort of talk’.
‘No woman’s
body should be spoken about in that way,’ she added.
In their
latest statement, on Wednesday morning, GB News announced it had taken further
measures against Fox and suspended the former actor with immediate effect while
their probe continues.
The
statement, posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, reads: ‘GB News has formally
suspended Laurence Fox while we continue our investigation into comments he
made on the channel last night.
‘Mr Fox’s
suspension is effective immediately and he has been taken off air.
‘We will be
apologising formally to Ms Evans today.’
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