Lorraine Kelly calls for a ban on Katie Hopkins
The TV host on the one person she wouldn't host on her show
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Your support makes all the difference.If anyone is going to take on Katie Hopkins and win, it’s Lorraine Kelly.
The beaming face of daytime TV has said she wouldn’t entertain the prospect of hosting The Sun columnist on her eponymous show, because while she is resolutely professional, she couldn’t guarantee she’d be able to contain her outrage.
“People are usually there to promote something, so they're always OK,” a British tabloid quoted Kelly as saying.
“Certainly with me, I've never had any nonsense.
“But with Katie Hopkins, now there is someone I'm not sure I could be nice to. I think that's I'd draw the line there.
“When people come on my show I treat them with the respect I would expect in return. But there are always exceptions. I don't want to ask her on.”
Her comments follow news that complaints had been made to the police, urging them to investigate a column she wrote for The Sun for incitement to racial hatred.
The piece was published by the tabloid on 17 April. In it, she described migrants desperate to reach Britain following humanitarian disasters in their own countries as “cockroaches” and suggested the government deploy “gunships” to stop them landing on shore.
The complaint follows a similar report made about Hopkins to Greater Manchester Police by Labour MP Simon Danczuk in March.
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