Katie Hopkins banned from This Morning after Glasgow tragedy tweet causes outraged
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This Morning have revealed they have “no plans” to book Katie Hopkins after her outrageous tweet a day after Glasgow’s helicopter tragedy.
On Friday night (29 November) nine people were killed when a police helicopter crashed through the roof of a busy Glasgow pub.
As people were recovering from the tragedy and grieving for their loved ones, Katie took to Twitter to make a jibe about the Scottish life expectancy.
Katie wrote: “Life expectancy in Scotland based 07/08 birth is 59.5.
“Goodness me. That lot will do anything to avoid working until retirement.”
Following an angry backlash and a petition to have her banned from TV, an ITV representative confirmed: “We have no plans for Katie Hopkins to appear on This Morning at this present time.”
Her insensitivities have encouraged more than 70,000 members of the public to sign a petition calling for the former Apprentice contestant to be BANNED from television.
The petition states: “On the 30th of November 2013, Scotland was still in shock and trying to come to terms with a horrible crash that took the lives of innocent people. Within 24 hours Katie Hopkins posted vile remarks on Twitter about how long the people of Scotland live for.
“This is unacceptable and distressing to those who lost friends and family.
“We the undersigned are sick and tired of ITV and Channel 5 giving her airtime and want her banned from all TV shows on your channels such as This Morning and The Wright Stuff.
“This woman is nothing more than an attention seeker who does not deserve to be a celebrity.”
The drama began after Katie wrote: “Life expectancy in Scotland based 07/08 birth is 59.5.
“Goodness me. That lot will do anything to avoid working until retirement.”
Katie initially appeared to make light of the row, saying: “Feel free to sign whatever it is angry people are all aboard the Outrage Bus about today.
“There appear to be a number of conflicting petitions out there to have me hung and quartered. Please do feel free to sign them all. PC tastic.”
But the 38-year-old later backtracked, offering an apology yesterday as she claimed her remarks were in reference to a Scottish NHS document.
Today, she did more grovelling on BBC West Midlands, saying: “It was one of those incidents which was just incredibly poor timing, for which I’ve apologised.
“When we were going out on Saturday morning I heard about a helicopter crash… but I didn’t actually think about it when I sat on the sofa that Saturday evening.”