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FILE - In this July 5, 2007, file photo, Katie Hopkins arrives at the film premiere of Hairspray in London. Australian officials said Monday, July 19, 2021, the far-right British commentator will be deported after she boasted on social media that she planned to breach quarantine rules. (AP Photo/Nathan Strange, File) July 19, 2021 - 12:24 AM
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) â Far-right British commentator Katie Hopkins was deported from Australia on Monday after she boasted on social media that she planned to breach the country s quarantine rules.
Hopkins traveled to Australia to appear in a reality television program and was in a 14-day mandatory hotel quarantine in Sydney before filming was to start.
Katie Hopkins to leave Australia âimminentlyâ after joking about lockdown breach
Katie Hopkins will be forced to leave Australia âimminentlyâ after her visa was cancelled following on from comments she made while in quarantine about the countryâs lockdown laws
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Katie Hopkins to be deported from Australia for flouting quarantine rules
Updated: 19/07/2021, 7:19 am
Katie Hopkins is to be deported from Australia after boasting of flouting quarantine rules (Ian West/PA)
Katie Hopkins is to be deported from Australia after what a senior minister called her “shameful” boast about flouting quarantine rules while in the country to appear on Big Brother VIP.
The former Apprentice star turned far-right commentator arrived in Australia last week and was immediately placed under two weeks of quarantine in a government-mandated hotel, as per the country’s pandemic regulations.
On Saturday, the 46-year-old reportedly said in a since-deleted Instagram live video that she was deliberately disobeying quarantine rules by taunting guards and opening her hotel room door without a mask.
She will also be deported from the country. - by Chanelle Mansour 19 Jul 2021
Big Brother VIP, after making controversial comments about Australia s hotel quarantine rules.
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Katie, who had been reportedly brought to Australia by Channel Seven to join
Big Brother VIP, was dropped from the program after receiving backlash from a video she uploaded to Instagram.
In the video, she described COVID-19 lockdowns as the greatest hoax in human history and joked about breaching restrictions.
She also said that she planned to deliberately break the rules by opening her door completely naked and mask-free to workers who deliver her food.
Katie Hopkins flew to Australia last week for an appearance on Big Brother
The commentator joked about flouting quarantine rules from hotel in Sydney
She also called Covid lockdowns the greatest hoax in human history
Channel Seven dropped her and the Federal Government cancelled her visa
She was also fined $1,000 (£536) for not wearing a mask in public
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