A Newport venue is set to welcome controversial media personality Katie Hopkins this month. The outspoken columnist and media commentator is set to appear at The Neon in Newport on July 28 as part of the Comecast live comedy tour.
Hopkins initially rose to prominence on the third series of BBC's The Apprentice in 2007 and has since achieved notoriety as a far-right commentator and outspoken media personality with inflammatory comments on race, migration and feminism.
The 48-year-old used to write for MailOnline and The Sun, the latter of which dubbed her "Britain's most controversial columnist." In 2020 Hopkins was permanently suspended from Twitter, where she had over a million followers, for violating its hateful conduct policy. A year later she was deported from Australia after boasting on Instagram that she planned to breach the country’s quarantine rules.
