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Dan Wootton

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    #32
    raynehell
    Registered Users Posts: 26 ✭raynehell


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120864916#Comment_120864916

    I watch it daily; it's more fun than most News channels, and Dan regular Ben puts him in his place



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    #33
    johannmall
    Registered Users Posts: 91 ✭✭johannmall


    Reminds me of a prominent unionist MLA wife who was screwing the staff ! These things always surface , and especially for the self righteous, there's nothing better than their hypocrisises exposed ! Always enjoyed watching Angus Deayton squirm on HIGNFY Before he was axed , how he demolished good folk , anyway !



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    #34
    cj maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,366 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120849669#Comment_120849669

    As a Monaghan man I have to say I do love your sig about Tyrone 😬😬



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    #35
    johannmall
    Registered Users Posts: 91 ✭✭johannmall


    As a dub , easy to see why you made semis , hats off to mcmanus , final score unreflective of a great game !



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    #36
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 37,177 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120864988#Comment_120864988

    Glad you liked it.

    More on Mr. Wootton:

    https://twitter.com/AdamBienkov/status/1681032959770476544


    We sat again for an hour and a half discussing maps and figures and always getting back to that most damnable creation of the perverted ingenuity of man - the County of Tyrone.

    H. H. Asquith



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    #37
    pjohnson
    Registered Users Posts: 23,166 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    I remember when some (one) people were desperately trying to claim GBNews was going to dominate the airwaves and change news in Britain.

    When in reality it was just grift central with various stooges "hosting".



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    #38
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 37,177 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120865230#Comment_120865230

    They still do it from time to time.

    I'd be surprised if this is the last scandal from the "talent" of GB News.

    We sat again for an hour and a half discussing maps and figures and always getting back to that most damnable creation of the perverted ingenuity of man - the County of Tyrone.

    H. H. Asquith



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    #39
    raynehell
    Registered Users Posts: 26 ✭raynehell


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120865214#Comment_120865214

    Bytline Times?! This blinkered, lefty-biased site castigates The Sun for daring to even suggest the slightest negative suspicion of his holiness Huw, even anonymously; but when it comes to Dan, they hurl all manner of anonymous allegations against him. Yet how different really are the allegations? Both are basically alleged to have paid for sex-pics. Career cancellation for Dan, compassion for Huw?



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    #40
    raynehell
    Registered Users Posts: 26 ✭raynehell


    Wootton is right now live on air dissing the allegations and claiming his main accusers are malevolent liars



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    #41
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users Posts: 85,045 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Yahoo News

    The publishers behind the Sun and MailOnline are looking into allegations that Dan Wootton inappropriately offered colleagues tens of thousands of pounds in return for sexual material.

    Wootton’s ex-boyfriend claimed last week that Wootton, who is now a presenter on GB News, used the pseudonym “Martin Branning” and offered individuals large sums of money in return for filming themselves carrying out sex acts.

    Alex Truby alleged he made the discovery after accessing Wootton’s hard drive in 2013 and seeing emails mentioning the pseudonym.

    On Monday, the website Byline Times went further and published a story claiming that an anonymous “trusted former colleague” of the GB News anchor had come forward to say Wootton used the Branning name. The Guardian has not been able to independently establish the link between Branning and Wootton.

    Many of the allegations relate to the time when Wootton was employed by the Sun, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News UK. The Guardian understands the organisation has no record of internal complaints relating to a Martin Branning, although it is urging anyone who wishes to make fresh allegations to approach the company.

    A spokesperson for News UK said: “We are looking into the allegations made in recent days. We are not able to make any further comment at this stage.”

    Wootton currently writes a regular column for MailOnline. A spokesperson for DMG Media, the site’s parent company, said: “We are aware of the allegations and are looking into them.”

    The Guardian has over the last three years talked to multiple individuals working in the media who say they have been approached online by a person using the name Martin Branning.

    The individuals, usually with links to the Sun, described being offered tens of thousands of pounds by Branning, usually in return for performing sexual acts on camera. The messages appeared to be personalised and were targeted at individuals, usually straight men, including employees of News UK.

    Wootton has denied that any illegal behaviour took place and has not commented further on the allegations. His employers at GB News did not respond to a request for comment.

    https://forumofgames.com/




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    #42
    raynehell
    Registered Users Posts: 26 ✭raynehell


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120868767#Comment_120868767

    Update:

    Wootton has taken control of his own story becoming the first MSM presenter to publish anything about it. He began his show tonight with an adamant denial, defacto daring anyone to say otherwise. Impressive move, whether guilty or innocent



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    #43
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 27,895 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120868556#Comment_120868556

    I hope the legal teams of said accusers are paying attention.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #44
    raynehell
    Registered Users Posts: 26 ✭raynehell


    If other MSM outlets follow up on this and continue attacks on Dan, then yeah.

    But after the Huw debacle, most may be too timid to risk it, in which case Dan will have little need to take legal action. He says the cops are well aware, and as at least one of the accuers is a felon, that guy'll have to watch himself



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    #45
    cloudhopper19
    Registered Users Posts: 242 ✭✭cloudhopper19


    I'd be surprised if this is the last scandal from the "talent" of GB News.



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    #46
    HalloweenJack
    Registered Users Posts: 7,056 ✭✭✭HalloweenJack


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120865230#Comment_120865230

    Lost £30m in its first year and had an audience share of 0.25% in April 2023 according to BARB and 0.3% for its radion channel in March.

    A roaring success.



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    #47
    sligeach
    Registered Users Posts: 16,007 ✭✭✭✭sligeach


    GB News Star Dan Wootton Unmasked in Cash-for-Sexual Images Catfishing Scandal

    https://bylinetimes.com/2023/07/17/gb-news-star-dan-wootton-unmasked-in-cash-for-sexual-images-catfishing-scandal/

    I will do a little jig if he is guilty. Dan Wootton is a $©##8@#! The site will be publishing more today and through the week.



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    #48
    JP Liz V1
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120868556#Comment_120868556

    His employers should suspend him while investigations are carried out like he demanded for Philip Schofield and others during allegations investigations

    https://forumofgames.com/




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    #49
    razorblunt
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    Lorraine Kelly will be devastated by the news. That's Lorraine Kelly the TV presenter, a character played by a person named Lorraine Kelly. For tax avoidance reasons naturally.



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    #50
    raynehell
    Registered Users Posts: 26 ✭raynehell


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120871785#Comment_120871785

    Innocvcent until proven guilty. They'd be fools to take their most popular presenter off air 'cos a bunch of compulsive liars allege years old wrong doing that he admantly denies



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    #51
    kippy
    Registered Users Posts: 18,394 ✭✭✭✭kippy


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120872831#Comment_120872831

    Interesting to see some of his statement yesterday. He was adamant the 'establishment' wast trying to take down GBNews with these types of stories.

    Maybe I am wrong here but isn't Jacob Rees Mogg a presenter on GBNews also? Surely you can't get more establishment than JRM?

    JRM also under some scrutiny I noticed by some commons select committees around this gig also.



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    #52
    DAngelo Bailey
    Registered Users Posts: 237 ✭✭DAngelo Bailey


    Wootton is a massive creep.



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    #53
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 37,177 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120872849#Comment_120872849

    GB News is the cultural dumping ground for establishment deplorables.

    We sat again for an hour and a half discussing maps and figures and always getting back to that most damnable creation of the perverted ingenuity of man - the County of Tyrone.

    H. H. Asquith



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    #54
    raynehell
    Registered Users Posts: 26 ✭raynehell



    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120872849#Comment_120872849

    'The establishment' has become a vacuous term of abuse, meaning f-all. Maybe he thinks he's talking about the BBC and its political and business backers? Mogg is seen, and seems to see himself as, under attack from a supposedly 'woke' new 'leftist' establishment. The same 'establishment' that did for his old boss Boris. Mogg harks back to a fantasy Britain 'fair' and 'decent' people ruled.

    The Standards Committee held Mogg and several other MPs accountable for attacking their credibility whille denouncing it as biased against Boris. The House of Common debated this but declined to punish Mogg et al



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    #55
    sligeach
    Registered Users Posts: 16,007 ✭✭✭✭sligeach


    Dan Wootton was a ‘Serial Bully’ at the Sun – But Bosses Promoted Him as Complaints were Silenced

    https://bylinetimes.com/2023/07/20/dan-wootton-was-a-serial-bully-at-the-sun-but-bosses-promoted-him-as-complaints-were-silenced/




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    #56
    raynehell
    Registered Users Posts: 26 ✭raynehell


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120877126#Comment_120877126

    If these guys really think this stuff's so bad, they're naive and sheltered. The Sun in recent decades and especially since the hacking takedowns, is a timid place comapred to it's 20th Century heyday. A day under Kelvin Mackenzie would make anyone long for a lifetime of relative luxury with dalring Dan doing his worse. Back then, 'bullying' was something you suffered at and learned to deal with at school. As an adult, you were either immune or heading for the scrap heap. To imagine a world where written speech-slights on screens would be seen as potential crimes and career cancelling, would've been beyond belief



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    #57
    Grayson
    Registered Users Posts: 16,126 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120877620#Comment_120877620

    I'm always amazed when someone is arguing that people in a job should expect to be bullied and harassed just for turning up to the office.



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    #58
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 37,177 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120878374#Comment_120878374

    I'm not. The right really seems to love cruelty for some reason.

    We sat again for an hour and a half discussing maps and figures and always getting back to that most damnable creation of the perverted ingenuity of man - the County of Tyrone.

    H. H. Asquith



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    #59
    Flaneur OBrien
    Registered Users Posts: 3,081 ✭✭✭Flaneur OBrien


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120878400#Comment_120878400

    They see bullying and cruelty as a show of strength.



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    #60
    Grayson
    Registered Users Posts: 16,126 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    It reminds me of working in call centre. there were people who would ring up and be incredibly abusive to the agents. And women always got it worse than men. In my time there I saw girls finish calls and have to take a break because they were crying. I had to listen to some of the calls for QA purposes. The people calling were just nasty. They were viscous and abusive. Thing is that I never got the abuse when I took calls. I think it was mainly women or guys with non English/Irish accents who got it.

    The idea that people should put up with abuse just because of their job is horrible to me. If someone can't interact without being abusive then they shouldn't be in the workplace.They're the problem, not the people they're abusing



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    #61
    sligeach
    Registered Users Posts: 16,007 ✭✭✭✭sligeach


    https://twitter.com/BylineTimes/status/1682421686354706433

    SLAPP stands for Strategic lawsuits against public participation, or strategic litigation against public participation, and are lawsuits intended to censor, intimidate, and silence critics by burdening them with the cost of a legal defense until they abandon their criticism or opposition. 

    https://twitter.com/BylineTimes/status/1682427200711147520




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