Outspoken media personality Katie Hopkins is bringing her one-woman show to Swansea.
The controversial columnist will be taking to the stage of Cinema & Co next month as part of her "Live Laugh Love" tour, which promises the "perfect night out if you want to laugh at the insanity of our lefty world".
Hopkins initially rose to prominence when she appeared in the 2007 series of the BBC programme The Apprentice, and has since carved out a career as a far-right commentator and outspoken media personality who often sparks outrage with comments on race, religion and immigration.
The 48-year-old used to write for MailOnline and The Sun newspaper, which dubbed her "Britain's most controversial columnist", and she had than a million followers on Twitter when she was banned from the site in 2020 for breaking rules on hate speech. Last year she was deported from Australia after boasting on social media she planned to breach the country’s quarantine rules.
Hopkins' "Live Laugh Love" tour is playing at venues across England and Wales from Buxton to Blackpool and Bournemouth. On the tour website she is described as offering "the perfect night out if you want to laugh at ‘the insanity of our lefty world . . . while we still can. She’s not PC but totally LOL." The show promo continues: "Watch her mercilessly ridicule everyone from politicians to celebrities in a show dripping with one-liners and acerbic put-downs of the ‘so-called great and good’. If you’re expecting a night of ‘hate speech’ you’ll be disappointed; this is about loving, about living and, most of all, about laughing."
The Swansea venue Hopkins is due to appear at is itself no stranger to controversy. In December 2021 the cinema's owner, Anna Redfern, was fined £15,000 for opening the business despite being ordered to close for Covid public health reasons. She subsequently launched an appeal against the level of her fines but abandoned it after a judge at Swansea Crown Court ordered a detailed disclosure of her finances including the whereabouts of tens of thousands of pounds in cash from an online crowdfunding campaign.
Hopkins' show is not promoted on the Cinema & Co website alongside its other ticketed events such as screenings of films Oh Jeremy Corbyn! The Big Lie, Kung Fu Panda, and Pinocchio, but is simply listed as "Food & Drinks pre-order for 3/5/23" - click on the link and you are given the chance to buy tickets for "Katie's stand up comedy show". Hopkins' surname is not mentioned.
Cinema & Co declined to comment.
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