Dan Wootton: GB News host admits 'errors of judgement'

Broadcaster Dan Wootton has admitted making "errors of judgement successful the past" but denied immoderate criminality arsenic helium responded to claims made against him.

Reports person included claims helium offered media colleagues thousands of pounds for explicit worldly of themselves.

Wootton said connected his GB News amusement helium was the unfortunate of a "witch hunt" by "nefarious players".

The publishers of the Sun and MailOnline accidental they are looking into allegations against him.

Wootton was antecedently enforcement exertion astatine the Sun, and its steadfast News UK told the BBC: "We are looking into the allegations made successful caller days. We are not capable to marque immoderate further remark astatine this stage."

He aboriginal became a columnist for MailOnline, owned by DMG Media, a spokesperson for which said: "We are alert of the allegations and are looking into them."

The claims - made connected societal media and successful immoderate publications - see that helium utilized fake online identities and offered wealth to individuals successful instrumentality for filming themselves carrying retired enactment acts.

Wootton said the allegations had been dispersed by a "race to the bottom" connected societal media, and claimed that "dark forces" were trying to bring down GB News.

He said: "These past fewer days I person been the people of a smear run by nefarious players with an axe to grind.

"I, similar each fallible quality beings, person made errors of judgement successful the past. But the transgression allegations being made against maine are simply untrue.

"I would similar thing much than to code those spurious claims. I could really walk the adjacent 2 hours doing so, but connected the proposal of my lawyers I cannot remark further."

GB News said it had nary remark astatine this time.