Katie Hopkins apologises after Twitter fury over Glasgow helicopter crash joke
 

The Apprentice star and Sun columnist Katie Hopkins has apologised after offending social media users with an apparent joke following the Glasgow helicopter crash.

Several Facebook groups were formed in protest and more than 38,000 people signed an online petition calling for Hopkins to be banned from TV after she tweeted on Saturday: "Life expectancy in Scotland based 07/08 birth is 59.5. Goodness me. That lot will do anything to avoid working until retirement."

The petition said: "On the 30th of November 2013, Scotland was still in shock and trying to come to terms with a horrible crash that took the lives of innocent people. Within 24 hours of this happening Katie Hopkins posted vile remarks on Twitter about how long the people of Scotland live for.

"This is unacceptable and distressing to those who lost friends and family.

"We the undersigned are sick and tired of ITV and Channel 5 giving her airtime and want her banned from all TV shows on your channels such as This Morning and The Wright Stuff.

"This woman is nothing more than an attention seeker who does not deserve to be a celebrity."

Consultant Julie Hendry tweeted: "@leicspolice I'd like to report this racist and insensitive comment from supposed media professional @KTHopkins."

Hopkins, who has almost 82,000 Twitter followers, appeared to make matters worse by retweeting criticism of her, tweeting the following day: "Am told I am the Biggest Bitch in Britain. Following Independence I will only be the Biggest Bitch in England. Always a positive if you look." She added: "Yikes, I am being reported to Channel 4 and the BBC. In a moment I will forced to read the Labour manifesto and subscribe to the Guardian."

She later jokingly tweeted: "There appear to be a number of conflicting petitions out there to have me hung and quartered. Please do feel free to sign them all. PC tastic."

However, on Monday she tweeted, linking to a Scottish NHS document: "My tweet on Scotland was directly related to this article: I apologise to those I offended. It was poor timing."

what a silly little lady

I don't even get the joke though...

..she's the most ridiculous woman ever...

She just says any old **** to get noticed

D:

Meh, there's countless comedians who make offensive jokes but don't get banned from TV.

Yes Every little Feck Up helps


Should she do CBB?

She's stupid and ridiculous... but her tasteless joke was really nothing to do with the helicopter crash.

Yes piss take of Scotland

yeah why make that joke when that is going one
silly little girl

she dose not like big ladies but she went to a big ladies award

..she's only really 'the biggest bitch' in her own head, it's what she wants to be to feel she has any place in the public at all, but she doesn't even do that well...she's just so unoriginal...

She hasn't apologised for the content of the joke, only the timing. Prick of a woman. This isn't the only thing she's had to say about the Scots recently.. That's only one if many. Here's another example of her bastardry..

http://i.imgur.com/1qrxPBV.jpg

Sign the petition here..

https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitio...and-interviews

I doubt the petition will remove her from our televisions but I would like her to actually realise how much she is hated.

I bet she's loving this attention.

Don't......give.....her.....the......atten....ah too late.

:laugh: that is the problem isn't it people with too much time on there hands following any old idiot on twitter even when they don't like them and then retweeting their crap, and then they wonder why these people get airtime, give me strength.

Bang On Right

it's not even to do with the crash tho

and the joke was pretty funny and barely even offensive

It was terrible timing but nothing to do with the accident as far as I can see, if Frankie Boyle had said it?....

Frankie Boyle is a comedian, Hopkins is a hateful, snobby, deluded bitch who is (for reasons unknown) is being invited on television to discuss serious political and social issues. Her comments are out of order, regardless of her timing.

That makes it ok then.

Why are people still paying attention to her?

I love her, but I don't agree with this

Yeah I agree

I don't actually think it's that bad, it's clearly nothing to do with the helicopter crash and is no worse than the sort of jokes you'll hear from pretty much every major comedian on shows like Mock the Week, 8 out of 10 cats etc