Laurence Fox has been ordered to pay £180,000 ($220,000) in damages to a former RuPaul’s Drag Race UK star and charity trustee he referred to as “paedophiles” on social media.
The previous GB Information host misplaced his libel case in opposition to Crystal, whose actual title is Colin Seymour, and Simon Blake, a trustee of UK charity Stonewall, a number of months in the past.
In accordance with PA, he has been ordered to pay £180,000 in damages, cut up evenly between Crystal and Blake.
“By calling Mr Blake and Mr Seymour paedophiles, Mr Fox subjected them to an entirely undeserved public ordeal,” the choose was reported to have stated by PA. “It was a gross, groundless and indefensible libel, with distressing and dangerous real-world penalties for them.”
Each Crystal and Blake have beforehand stated they confronted abuse after the previous Lewis star’s tweet and posted on X after the trial that “an enormous weight” had been lifted. Crystal competed within the first season of Drag Race within the UK.
Fox, who left GB Information final 12 months after making extremely misogynistic remarks a few feminine journalist, had counter-sued the pair over tweets accusing him of racism, however the choose didn’t make a ruling on whether or not this was “considerably true.” Fox had vowed to enchantment that ruling.
