Katie Hopkins axed from Australiaâs Big Brother VIP
Controversial commentator reportedly deliberately disobeyed quarantine rules
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Katie Hopkins (Image: Getty Images)
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Katie Hopkins has been axed from the upcoming season of Australiaâs Big Brother VIP after reportedly admitting to deliberately disobeying strict hotel quarantine rules.
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Hopkins, who recently flew to Sydney ahead of her appearance on Seven s all-star season of Big Brother, caused public backlash over the weekend after claiming she was planning to deliberately flout restrictions while staying in hotel quarantine.
At 5am on Saturday, Hopkins took to Instagram live to post a speech where she called out the lockdowns in Sydney and Melbourne.
During the video, Hopkins openly mocked the 14-day hotel quarantine rules revealing she planned to deliberately break them by opening her door completely naked and mask-free to workers who deliver her food. The police officer who checked me in told me, when they knock on my door I have to wait 30 seconds until I can open the door, she says while breaking out into hysterics. I can open the door but I can only do it in a face mask.
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Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews has directed Border Force to urgently review the visa of British right-wing commentator Katie Hopkins, who boasted in elaborate detail about breaking hotel quarantine rules on social media.
The media personality is quarantining in a Sydney hotel ahead of a now-axed role in the upcoming season of Big Brother, broadcast by the Seven Network.
On Saturday morning, she told Instagram followers that she had been trying to flout restrictions in her hotel by answering her door naked and without a face mask.
Ms Hopkins speaks on instagram from what purports to be a Sydney Hotel Quarantine room.
First published on Sat 17 Jul 2021 23.53 EDT
British far-right figure Katie Hopkins has been dumped as a cast member of Seven’s Big Brother VIP and will leave the country after breaching her contract, Guardian Australia can reveal.
Hopkins, 46, broadcast a live video from what she claimed was a Sydney hotel room on Saturday morning, describing Covid-19 lockdowns as “the greatest hoax in human history” while joking about elaborate plans to breach quarantine rules.
On Saturday home affairs minister, Karen Andrews, ordered an urgent review of whether Hopkins has breached her visa conditions by publicly flouting quarantine rules.
But the review has been superseded by a decision to terminate her contract, Guardian Australia understands.
Katie Hopkins axed from Australiaâs Big Brother VIP
Here comments were branded irresponsible and reckless by Seven Network TV
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Katie Hopkins (Image: Getty Images)
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