Dan Wootton, the executive editor and presenter of GB News show ‘Dan Wootton Tonight’, has been suspended by MailOnline amid an ongoing investigation into serious allegations. The investigation centers around claims that Wootton paid for videos of sexual activity during his tenure as former executive editor of The Sun and as a showbiz journalist.
The 40-year-old journalist has been a prominent figure in media, with a twice-weekly column for the MailOnline since 2021. However, his column has not been published since the allegations surfaced last month, after being made public by his ex-partner.
A spokesperson for DMG media, the parent company of MailOnline, confirmed that Wootton will not be working for them during the investigation. The spokesperson stated, “We are continuing to consider a series of allegations which Dan Wootton has strenuously denied. The allegations are obviously serious, but also complex and historic, and there is an independent investigation underway at the media group which employed him during the relevant period. In the meantime, his freelance column with MailOnline has been paused.”
Apart from the MailOnline investigation, Wootton is also under scrutiny by his former employers at Rupert Murdoch’s News UK, where he served as a celebrity journalist for over a decade.
Despite the allegations, Wootton has not directly addressed the situation. In a previous statement on his GB News show, he referred to the claims on social media as a “smear campaign” orchestrated by “nefarious players with an axe to grind.” In a more than six-minute statement to viewers on July 18, Wootton stated, “I, like all fallible humans, have made errors of judgment in the past, but the criminal allegations being made against me are simply untrue.”
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