Dan Wootton MailOnline column paused amid investigation, publisher confirms

The steadfast of MailOnline, DMG Media, has confirmed it has paused Dan Wootton's column, portion it considers "a bid of allegations" against Wootton, which helium denies.

Wootton has a twice-weekly file with MailOnline, the past of which was published connected 29 June.

He has antecedently admitted making "errors of judgement" but powerfully denied immoderate criminality successful narration to claims made against him.

The disputed allegations see that helium utilized a fake online individuality to connection wealth to individuals pictures of sexually explicit images.

Following the claims past month, the publishers of MailOnline and his erstwhile employers astatine the Sun paper - wherever helium worked betwixt 2013 and 2021 - instantly made abstracted statements saying they were looking into allegations made against him.

In a caller statement, a DMG Media spokesperson said: "The allegations are evidently superior but besides analyzable and historical and determination is an autarkic probe nether mode astatine the media radical which employed him during the applicable period.

"In the meantime, his freelance file with MailOnline has been paused."

Last month, the TV presenter and columnist utilized his self-titled GB News programme to admit helium had made "errors of judgement" successful the past but branded the "criminal allegations" arsenic "simply untrue".

He said helium was the unfortunate of a "witchhunt" by "nefarious players", and that the allegations had been dispersed by a "race to the bottom" connected societal media.

During his clip astatine the Sun, Wootton edited the paper's showbiz file Bizarre, and became the paper's enforcement editor.

He was besides antecedently showbiz exertion astatine the News of the World and appeared connected ITV's Lorraine arsenic the programme's showbiz correspondent. He was named showbiz newsman of the twelvemonth astatine the British Press Awards 3 times.