‘I’m NOT racist!’ Lee Anderson EXCLUSIVE: MP doubles down amid ‘Islamist’ comments row

Lee Anderson defends ‘Islamist’ comments; What’s up with William & Kate? Harry LOSES | The Reaction

In this week’s episode of The Reaction, Sarah Vine and Andrew Pierce are joined by under fire MP Lee Anderson, as the fallout over his comments about Sadiq Khan and the pro-Palestine protests continues. Sarah says Lee claiming the London Mayor was ‘controlled by Islamists’ doesn’t help the debate, while Lee fiercely disagrees and says his comments have started a debate that needed to be had. He says it’s not racist to challenge a religion.

Also in the show, Andrew and Sarah ask why the Royal family won’t explain what is happening with the Prince and Princess of Wales, after Prince William abruptly pulled out of a major royal event over a ‘personal matter’.

Sarah and Andrew also react to Prince Harry losing his latest legal battle in the High Court over his security arrangements. They ask why the Duke of Sussex expects to have access to police services whenever he deigns to visit the UK.

And, showbiz editor Katie Hind reveals the truth about Ellie Goulding’s split from husband Casper Jopling, and why the Brit Awards has lost its sparkle.

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Coming up on the reaction as the Fallout continues over Lee Anderson’s comments about London Merced Khan and pro Palestinian marches does he have a point well he’ll be joining us shortly to give his reaction to the Ferrari that he’s created and as the prince Wales am

Misses a major Royal event due to a personal matter why can’t the Royals tell us the truth about Kate and William and as Prince Harry loses his legal challenge H over his security Arrangements why does he think he can have access to armed police services

When he DS to visit the UK and our Sho Supremo ktie hind has the true story about Eddie goldings split from her husband and it’s not what you’ve read so Far welcome to the reaction with me Sarah Vine and me Andrew Pierce we’re every Wednesday on the M’s YouTube channel so make sure you like And subscribe so that you never miss a single episode so we start this week with the MP who has been dominating all the headlines Lee

Anderson Well there have been alarming scenes in London recent weeks on Saturdays in particular with Pro Palestinian protesters shutting down parts of the capital mobbing MPS and projecting deeply offensive anti-semitic slogans on the iconic big Ben and the Home Secretary James clly has called for the Gaza rallies to stop saying

Demonstrators have made their point which I think is probably Fair yeah I think he’s right and it comes amid an increasing threat against politicians of all sides since those Hammer terrorist attacks on October the 7th meanwhile the National Police Chief’s Council has been forced to ask the treasury for extra

Funding after revealing nearly 30 million pounds of taxpayers money has already been spent patrolling these protests and all of this comes just days after tor m p Lee Anderson was suspended from the Parliamentary party for his comments about the rallies claiming London Merced K was controlled by islamist delighted to say we’re joined

By Lee Anderson himself Lee good afternoon to you Lee you have been not averse to causing controversy in your time as an MP you’ve excelled yourself this time but can I ask you straight away are you about to cross the floor and join reform UK you met Richard TI

The Reform Party leader on Saturday uh nobody knows what went on between the two of you are you about to defect hi guys uh well Andrew I’ll give you the same answer as I’ve given given everybody else uh I’m not prepared to discuss my political Journey but I will

Say this I have not rolled out joining the liberal Democrats either I don’t think they want you Lee what about the well they I know the I know the lib Dems have um drafted an EDM I think there’s about five out of the 15 lib Dems actually sign the EDM to call

Me back to the house to apologize for my comments I’m actually thinking about son in that EDM myself um just so they can listen to what I have to say so um look I’m not going to discuss you know what’s what’s going off in private um I’m not denying anything I’m not admitting

Anything I know you want to you want to hear it but I know you’ve got to ask me that question guys but uh that’s as far as I’m going to go on that subject okay do you you you’ve said that you’re the language you used was clumsy in

Describing um sadik Khan in that interview on GB news where you’re a presenter do you regret what you’ve said no I don’t regret what I’ve said it’s just now some you know I could have been a little bit smarter because people used it to attack me they suggesting that I’m racist and

I’m not you cannot be called racist for criticizing a religion that’s just nonsense I didn’t even criticize a religion I criticized the man I played the man and they say in politics sometimes you shouldn’t play the man you should play the ball you should play the

Team but I played the man uh and some people’s used that for um as a political opportunity to attack me to have a popet Rian government and they’ve it’s cause uh they’ve used it to cause division these are the people that claim they don’t want to see division stoked but

They’re using this to to stoke more division my point I was trying to make Andrew if if if I’m honest is that Sadi KH is not in control of the streets in London we see it week in week out on the streets in on on Parliament Square on

White or where mobs can just turn up and sometimes it’s the same old faces leaping on or hijacking a demonstration they caused Mayhem they tried to influence Parliament which they did last week and so when people say to me what did you mean I’m saying that K and the

Police haven’t got control of the Streets of London it’s the mob that’s outside that’s got control I mean I I you’re I think there’s a lot of Truth in what you say but I I have a problem with what you said for the simple reason that I think that well there’s various

Various things here number one uh yes I think the the process has gone too far but I do think that you have to be very careful not to undermine the sort of positions of politicians your job as a politician is to is not to sort of

Ratchet these things up it’s to have a sensible rational conversation and you’ve given ammunition to critics of the conservative government which is very unhelpful at this stage I mean Andrew asks about reform and I’m interested in in knowing about that but the truth is if you do

Defect reform and if people vote for reform what will happen is that will split the conservative vote and we will be even more likely to get a labor government which you know as you said yourself has a problem with these issues so I just think you know I I I I I I

Understand where you’re coming from I understand that that uh I I I actually agree with ly that these Marchers have probably done their job they’ve we’ve had so much of it and we all know what these people think and I was absolutely Furious that they projected that slogan

On the House of Commons last week but I just think at this stage in a very feverish situation I think if you’re a responsible politician what you try to do is dial this stuff down not dial it up well it’s a fair comment but we’ll

Come back at you um I disagree with the first part of your of your of your conver of the conversation just in that it’s my job as a politician I’m from a place called Ashfield and if you don’t know where Ashfield is that’s in the real world that’s north of Watford

That’s where that’s a place that’s my home it’s a place where I’ve lived all my life so when I go into my pubs and at the weekend they all stand up and clap and say Lee you’ve done it again you said the right thing and you’ve said I’m controversial I’m not controversial it’s

Parliament that’s controversial it’s not me winding my residence up my constituents up it’s not me who gets you know gets chased down the street when I’m back in Ashfield it’s the residents the constituents of Ashfield who are unhappy what’s happening in Parliament and around our great you know around our

Great City so it’s this place that’s being controversial not me I’m in tune I think with the constituents in Ashfield my inbox tells me that my neighbors tell me that the people in the pub tell me that the people in the shopping centers tell me that so when you’re saying I’m

Controversial just step back a little bit and have think about what you’re actually saying it’s not me that’s controversial yet the bubble down here the Westminster bubble the politicians the media whatever that hang around this place might say I’m controversial or the people that hang about in is linon at

Tea parties clinking their little glasses of PCO and you know speaking all night they might think I’m controversial but I’m not it’s them that’s controversial and they need to wake up and realize what the people in this country actually want they want to see peace on our streets they want to see

People living together uh and this diversity thing that they all bang on about down here it’s not working very well at the moment this this diversity this strive for diversity is creating division but how do you think saying something like sadik Khan is controlled by islamists helps how I don’t

Understand how that helps well it doesn’t help and never said it did help but you know sometimes in this life especially in this place I’ve said it before there are 650 MPS that work in this in this uh on this estate if one out of that 650 hasn’t got the gats or

The gumption to call people out let’s remember Sadi Khan is a labor labor politician at the end of the day he’s an awful politician he’s been an awful mayor he’s he’s ruining this country I sit in cabs every single day taxi cabs the L don’t disagree with you on that

That’s well they they they they they know stuff they they they know about London and they are a great education for me since I’ve been working down here and you should hear what they say about about meon and the way that London’s been R they’re absolutely disgusted they

Don’t feel like it’s their own City anymore it’s been taken over by this woke nonsense that’s more interested in stealing money off motorists I’ve read three bloody fines in last month driving down here I should be doing that again so there one good thing he encouraged me

To use public transport let me ask you let me ask you Lee do you think uh if people like you stray into the area of race and Muslims and islamism people cry immediately don’t they you can’t say that it’s racist why is it racist to talk about the fact that some

People in C communities perhaps in Bradford perhaps in East London perhaps even in your constituency no longer feel at ease they feel alienated because there’s been such a rapid massive expansion of immigration in their local community and yet if you anyone dares to raise that on their behalf they’re

They’re shouted down as racists well this is and and this is why one of the reasons Andrew probably said you know what I did last week it’s not racist to criticize a certain section of society and I did I did a piece in the express it was yesterday where at Hal back into

The 1970s my in-laws are from Ireland they’re all Irish Catholics and they lived in Ireland in the 7s and 80s when the troubles were on Now the IRA were doing some Wicked horrible things both in Ireland and in this country the Birmingham bombings as you remember and

The stuff that went off in in the England during the 80s horrible shocking stuff but we didn’t blame the normal hardworking decent Everyday People in Ireland the Irish Catholics for the horrors that were going off in this country it’s totally different so it was right to call the IRA out but you’re not

Having to go at the people living in Ireland it’s like now I’m calling out the islamists who are again a tiny minority who happen to have a Muslim faith the Muslims I’ve been speaking to over the past few days have said to me Lee we know what you’re saying yes your

Language might have been a bit comes but we do not want to be associated with these people that come hanging around parland Square shouting these horrific horrible things and Shining you know from the rivers to the Sea on big big ban Elizabeth to whatever you want to call it the normal decent everyday

Muslim don’t want nothing to do with that and you know it’s it’s again it’s that it’s that loud mob Andrew that um you know this this tiny minority of of a particular group in society who seem to be having influence and we saw it last week when they influenced parliamentary

Procedure I’m sure they did because they were screaming shouting horrible chants and to see that graphic on Big Ben is horrific it’s terrible but they influence and now now they’ve done it once they’re trying to do it again didn’t stop them I mean they openly said one of the organizers of the

March said they openly wanted to shut Parliament down they wanted to make MPS frightened but the problem the thing is I think you have just given these people a lot of fuel that’s the problem because by saying that Sadi Khan is controlled by them I mean there’s is there any

Evidence that he’s controlled by islamist I will give you the evidence right now this happens every Wednesday almost now these these these these mobs turn up you know every time we have a a vote about Gaza they turn up so has he got control no he hasn’t who’s got

That’s not what you saying you were saying he was controlled by islamist I mean for you know let’s not he’s not called it out you know the from the r not once over the past week because it C it out yes but the thing is is that if

If you you know the point is what you if you flip this on this head on the head say sadik KH was Jewish for example and if you had said this man is controlled by a Jewish cabal that would be antisemitic you can understand why people are really taken back by what

You’ve said no this is this is where the media when you say I’m stoking up division this is where you lot come into play stoking Division and creating division it is because I don’t do a religion check on a politician when I ever a go at them if they’ve done

Something wrong or they’re not doing something right I don’t get Wikipedia and decide have a look what religion this person is I want to attack them on their policy not on their faith and not on the color of the skin and not where they were born I will attack them on

What they’re actually doing to this great country if you had simply said Sadi Khan has no control over these people that would be completely acceptable okay and you would be by the way completely right but you didn’t say that you said he’s controlled by islamist which is a different thing and

It is an incendiary thing to say and it doesn’t help the debate and it doesn’t help the well no no but he’s absolutely wrong because it does help the debate because we’re still talking about it a week later okay yeah so if I have said what you suggested it had have been done

And dusted and nobody been talking about it I won’t be talking to you P now so you’re quite wrong let me ask you just a couple of question because we’re conscious of your time um you you’ve refused to apologize and your statement which you put out which I thought was

Admirable actually I agreed I think just about all of it you’re clearly not going to apologize you’ve um you speak the language of ordinary voters you’d be a terrible loss to the Tory party well yeah I think so but um I mean that’s out of my hands now I mean the

The conservative party gave me a home when I was politically homeless they welcomed me on board looked after me protected me um and I owe them a lot for that and sometimes Andrew in Parliament when people say well why did you vote that way well I believe in supporting

The government I believe in in loyalty I believe that sometimes you can actually vote for stuff that you don’t 100% you can’t 100% get behind but you do it because you’re loyal to the party we’re trying to do a job we’re trying to run the country you’re loyalty your mates

I’ve been in the chamber today in pmqs and when I walked in um I went and sat with my mates and my mates just happened to be S sat on the on the left hand side as I walked in and they’re conservatives they my friends yeah uh but at the end

Of the day the decision is up to the up to the isue well let me ask you this as well there was a government Minister doing the interview the broadcast around yesterday he was asked six times if what you said was racist or islamophobic and he didn’t answer the question and the

Deputy Prime Minister Oliver dowen who I’m not a particular fan of it has to be said when he was interviewed a few days ago equally couldn’t say whether what you said was racist or ishoba nobody can well they can Define what islamophobia is but he has three

People people the Lord give you a different answer it’s it’s nonsense I mean if you was to call out Christianity you would be called by some uh who’s religious people you might be called a blasphemer but it’s okay to blaspheme you know we’re allowed to attack a religion we’re allowed to question the

Teachings in the Bible so we are allowed to attack um you know question or challenge teachings in the Quran but if you do that then you you calling it um a racist a racist um so I I I questioned a young man the other day he accused me of

Islamophobia in a meeting and I just said to him what is islamophobia and he just stared at me for 20 seconds with the glazed expression and in the end he just said well it means you’re racist yeah he couldn’t give no an answer so we

Have to Define this this place I work at has to Define actually what islamophobia actually is if it’s just challenging the religion then that should be fine can we ask you next time you come on this this uh this interview with us Sarah and I will you be talking to us as Lee

Anderson conservative MP for Ashfield or Lee Anderson MP for somebody else it’ll be Lee Anderson MP for Ashfield fantastic good so you’re going to keep speaking out I am good Lee Anderson very good don’t go don’t go to reform because that won’t help anything

No we we want stay part be by don’t be enticed by Ty I like that all right love you to talk to you see yeah see you guys bye bye bye so what’s your reaction to all of this do you agree with Lee Anderson or are you on the slightly snowflake

Sarah Sarah Vine side obviously I’m wrong but you know I have to put the put the case you do so let us know by emailing reaction dailymail.co.uk or comment below do you agree with me leanderson or Sarah V please agree with me someone agree with me uh now why

Can’t the Royals tell us the truth about Kate and William it’s this week’s Royal reaction there was massive concern yesterday when Prince William abruptly pulled out of a service of Thanksgiving for his Godfather apparently due to a personal matter so it was exactly 45 minutes before the event at witer Castle but

Kensington Palace stubbornly refused to tell us anymore other than it was a personal matter well I mean tell it the thing is this wasn’t just him not turning up for something he was an integral part of the service wasn’t he he was supposed to be doing a reading he

Really was look this is the exiled king of Greece a very very dear friend of the late Queen and Prince Phillips he was Prince Phillips sailing partner uh very important very important in Royal circles uh and I did the Roy P you know for years on the times years on the

Telegraph it is unprecedented for such a senior member of the royal family to withdraw such short notice order of service printed the Royals already on their way to the castle the Greek royal family Exile Greek family already on their way he had to tell them 45 minutes

Before and because he is de facto King the monar was on his way to be was on actually having treatment for his cancer in central London uh Queen Camila was there of course too it was even more important that he was there which makes it Sarah even more inexplicable that he

Pulled out at such short notice with just that personal reasons well it just makes you think it has to be something really quite serious for him to do that that’s the issue um and it was an odd day yesterday because we also had we all got a sort of notification at about sort

Of 5:30 in the afternoon that a really big Ro announcement about to be made so then everybody sort of got into a panic thinking K it must be something really terrible because Williams not gone to this thing and he was supposed to be there and now we’re getting a big Ro

Announcement and it was and it was it was awful it was the this we assumed it was something to do with we assumed it was something either to do with Katherine or Charles as it happened it was very sad the death of Thomas Kingston who who uh was married to Lady

Gabriella Windsor who is the daughter of the prince prince and Prince Michael prince and princess Michael of Kent yeah who were actually at the service who were actually at the service poor things stoic Royal as they are apparently he was found dead on Sunday night no one

Really knows why so so so it was all a bit of a sort of terrible day for the Royals yesterday but in a sense so because they tipped off broadcasters newspapers like ours in advance it escalated the whole drama it is because we thought must be I think I think both

Journalists and also to an extent the public are quite worried because the signals coming from the palace both about the king and about uh The Prince and Princess of Wales are not great at the moment they’re well they’re saying she’s doing well but what does that mean

And the King they haven’t told us what cancer he’s got we talked about that last week um we knew he had he was going in for check pH enlarge prostate but they haven’t told us and there’s all sorts of rumors about that and I still think they won’t be able to hold the

Line on that but here we go again it it’s just extraordinary that that William wasn’t there he was very fond of his Godfather the exiled king of Greece uh the other thing Sarah then meant all for prince Andrew took control I know and that is a really bad he just sort of

Bustled to the front with Fergus Sarah Ferguson why did she have to be there Al she’s had her own cancer scare bustled to the front loitered with intent outside the door to the chapel um introducing people he almost took over because if you looked in the order of

Succession he was the most senior yeah absolutely but there’s but there’s a there’s a there’s a difficult balance here to be struck I think for the Royals between protecting the privacy of the king and the prince and princess Wales and I do think they are allowed a little

Bit of privacy particularly when it’s sort of personal health matters but also not leaving a vacuum which then gets filled with speculation and conspiracy theory which is what’s happening at the moment so I think they need to understand that in this day and age you know you can’t just not say anything you

Know you have to give an explanation you know William not showing up like that to to something that he was such an integral part of is I’m afraid something that they do need to explain I mean just say he’s fallen downstairs I don’t know but just something and his home

Literally where he he lives with his children and his wife is literally a 5 minute walk from the chapel so all the more inexplicable that he couldn’t be there uh and the service would have been over in an hour exactly uh so it was 65 minutes of his life really 65 minutes of

His life could he not have just popped over there to do it and then some are now saying he just doesn’t have the same ethic of the queen and his father The Show Must Go On yeah but I but I don’t think that’s such a sort

Of big big demand I don’t agree with that any was a serious serious problem I think he is very committed but I just I just think you know the more you think about it the more you think this must have been a really serious problem what is

This very serious problem we’re all very worried about it yeah that’s the other thing genuinely lots of people love the Moni they love Kate Kate and William and they’re very worried about her they’re worried about the king and this is going to make people much more worried I mean

If you my inbox I’m sure you always the same say what’s wrong text messages phone calls from all people saying they assume that we know because the Press we don’t know we do not know what’s wrong with her we know we’ve heard some speculation but and because people

Genuinely are concerned but and as you say they they they’re worried because it’s this it’s not you know if it was just the king yeah or just the or just William and Kate it might be less but it’s because it’s them both and they are such pillars of the royal family this is

Why the problem is you know this is why people want to know they just want to know a bit more anyway we’d love to know your reaction is I have another suggestion we’ve talked about this before the solution to prince Andrew they probably need a new gamekeeper on the Bal moral

Estate probably needs to be a full-time job and we’d never have to see him and it would keep him fit ever again and it looks to me like he needs to be a bit for keep fit and he could always take Sarah Ferguson with him I’m sure she’d

Go yes I’m sure she’d go well I mean I just think Princess Anne should put in charge of everything but I always and she should have been at the front of the crowd Yesterday by the way was she was pretty pretty far to the front way at the front because fabulous KNE

Absolutely brilliant we love her anyway um what do you think is it any of our business what’s going on with r Kate and what do you think about Andrew uh stealing the Limelight comment below or uh email us at reaction dailymail.co.uk well coming up we’re going to discuss

Prince Harry losing his latest High Court legal battle good no gloating good but first your reaction to the reaction we love reading your comments uh and thoughts here on the reaction last week we discussed whether it was wise for Prince William to Wade in on the conflict in Gaza overwhelmingly you

Think he was right which means you don’t agree with either of us because we both thought he wasn’t so Tracy on YouTube is typical of some of the people who called inches say when the King was a prince of Worlds he said things that the queen couldn’t say asking for peace is not

Political it’s humanitarian he just as a bigger platform than the rest of us Jackie on YouTube says I love the late Queen but I do wish people would stop comparing Charles and William to her Fair Point they are their own people and want to do things differently I can’t

See what all the fuss is about all he wants is peace and Ellie on YouTube says this what does the world come to when a call for peace gets people in a Twist this is a simple humanitarian message Prince William didn’t take side such a stupid thing to criticize you were the

Stupid bit I am very stupid not me Tec mom I love that name says on YouTube there was nothing remotely political in Prince Williams statement when did it get so controversial to say you are hoping for peace For Heaven’s Sake find something else to clutch your pearls

Over you have me or you I think I don’t have any pears I do think it was a bit political more than a bit political point you make because there was a Commons vote the very next day which of course then descended into chaos chaos but but no I’m wrong now zendri on

YouTube says I agree with Prince William but I rather think he should stare out of politics I don’t always agree with his impassioned statement or his support of one country against the other such as Ukraine for instance I think these are hot potatoes the royal family should

Just stay out of better to be seen as neutral in a highly polarized world yes I mean I do think that um I’m Fair all those comments very fair but I do think that you know in the context of that parliamentary vote it was just the timing was terrible just the timing was

Quite bad the week after yeah he’ probably got away course I mean he could probably could have made an even bigger speech anyway if you want to message us about any of this week’s talking points you can comment below or email reaction dailymail.co.uk now this week’s allergic reaction is the

Same for both of us and it’s our dear old friend Prince Harry Duke of Sussex who’s Lost His Latest High Court battle over his security arrangements and I’m trying not to look smug and failing yes Prince Harry took the government the home office to court because they said because he’d moved away he’s

Gone to his castle in monteo in California with his uh to live his millionaire lifestyle you’re no longer part of the RO family so you’re not entitled to Armed or Protection cover at public exp when you come to the UK he took the home office to court saying

Okay I don’t expect to the taxpayer to pay for it but I want access to it so click my fingers I’m coming to Britain I want armed protection officers which means the Metropolitan Police have to put some of the most highly trained police officers at his disposal when he

Comes here on a whim like he did a couple of weeks ago to see his father by the way the taxpayer raw protection stepped in on that occasion I think it’s absolutely right what the the court has decided today well the thing is it’s quite a um a scarce resource that

Protect that type of protection main also because they we had this awful uh incident recently where a Firearms officer was prosecuted do you remember for shooting someone so the number of firearms officers that they can actually get a hold of is diminishing quite rapidly which is one issue yeah why

Would you want to be a Firearms officer you can be pred for doing job but also I think that that there are other sort of slightly more pressing security issues and this week we’ve seen um this story about uh MPS now needing close security just sort of ordinary MPS so this this

Sort of body which is called ravc and it’s their job basically to decide who gets protection who doesn’t and they do that on the basis of kind of quite uh complex and uh sort of in-depth assessments of a person security and it will depend on what the threats are and

It should be pointed out that you know there are lots of threats in against MPS at the moment there’s there’s there’s obviously the sort of Fallout from uh the situation in the Middle East there’s there’s a lot of environmentalists who are being very aggressive and who are threaten just a boiler talking about

Getting into people MP’s homes exactly um and you know threatening their children threatening their their families whatever um and then there are of the’re the usual sort of right-wing Nutters so there is quite a lot um that that needs taken care of and you know Harry is really here very rarely quite

You know he really is I mean was he’s come twice in the last year I mean he he he doesn’t really come here at all I suppose you could say he would come here more if he had protection and then maybe the maybe the king would get to see his

Grandchildren but would he really I don’t really know so I think I think they’ve made the right decision I know I know Harry will appeal um but you know if if you’re a sort of standard Hollywood celebrity and you come here you just have a couple of

Goons that you pay for yourself and that’s how it work they’re not going to be obviously what Harry was which is what he’s used to which is you know the full monty the out Riders exactly I’ve had out Riders and out rers as I tell you that honestly outriders is the most

Glamorous thing does make you feel like you really matter you honestly you feel like the most important person when politicians lose the outright it’s a big shock so Mrs ster who I woried she had a house which she bought in dullage on the premier estate Barrett’s homes built it

Uh so when she was ousted by those uh cowardly Tor MPS let not discuss about Mrs sta she then had to after she’d seen the queen to stand down as prime minister she went to Dage where the house was the out Riders had gone and what had taken about 15 minutes before

Took 2 hours traffic jams Dennis me they just traffic jam to the London traffic buag what traffic be like now no I mean you’d probably have to cycle I don’t imagine you’d actually be allowed to drive but so so I think there’s a there’s that you know that I think Harry

You know he just doesn’t he you know he’s chosen to walk away he doesn’t want this lifestyle he doesn’t want to be part of that wants the but Harry likes all of that because it’s body juicy I can remember loves it of course and I can remember when there

Was huge speculation about is Tony Blair going to go to see the queen about general election this is in 2005 and I was on the times with you and I went into The Newsroom with with great triumphant air and said I can tell you we’ll have an announcement about um

General election in about the next two hours how do you know I said I’ve just seen the queen driving past the office with Charles with Will no with with Prince Philip and she looked at me and I smiled she looked away cuz she’d obviously had to come back early from

Winter castle to go see that wretched prime minister to Grant her in general election you could see she was very F Furious we do need a police police force that can actually you know do what they’re supposed to do when you come here pay for your own protection

Officers they just won’t be armed but who does he think want just get a couple of bouncers it’ll be fine yes exactly anyway and anyway um they don’t come anyway as you make that point no they don’t come here anyway good uh we know this will divide opinion let us know

Yours by commenting below or emailing reaction dailymail.co.uk for this week’s chubis reaction we are joined by the B’s brilliant showas supreno Katie hind Katie hello you have some stories than for having me yes you’ve got the Inside Story on Ellie being split from her husband well yes

Well this has taken quite some time actually can I just say can I just stop you for one second Andrew doesn’t know who Ellie G is G Ellie gording is a is a singer right would you sing part of one of her songs but how else will I know

Who she is cu if I sing you won’t be able to understand you must sing a couple no I can’t no you can um how long will I love you no you can’t sing No actually that was better than me iing you no I’m not singing um so that’s

Who she is so so Ellie ging she hases have many boyfriends I think that’s okay to say that um Ellie ging has uh had to come out and confirm she split up with her husband Casper jopling he’s an art dealer she married him in a big um fancy

Star studed wedding at yorkminster back in the summer of 2019 um about a year ago so I I understood that they split up last week she went off to Costa ricao where she was papped in the sea frolicking with a very buff surfing structure now Ellie was horrified to find out that these

Pictures had been taken um and then had to weigh up whether she wanted to continue to say she hadn’t split up with her husband or come clean um to avoid you know accusations of perhaps cheating on her husband so she decided to finally

Admit it is it just a fling or is it a proper relationship with this hunk so my understanding is she met him she went out to Costa Rica at the beginning of January where she met him he works he’s got surfing instructor company on the beach I

Mean there’ll be there’ll be quite a few Ellie Golding lovers with this surfing instruct well I don’t know well maybe I mean yeah every week um so so so so then she do more surfing yeah I mean I see why she’s gone there okay so you

Found well I don’t know I mean I don’t even know if he can speak English I mean I don’t know if they can even sort of maybe they not talking language of were sort of cuddling and he was kissing her head it was all very romantic and loving

Um so so she met him in January and then she returned um this month with some friends and was papped by a local photographer now she wasn’t expecting it to happen um now what I can tell you now is she’s now returned home she’s just came come through Heathrow Airport and

She’s gone back to her family home where I imagine her husband is there oh they’re still living in the same house well he’s they’ve got two houses he was he was slung out um to the smaller one but they’ve got a kid as well they got three-year-old so he was at home looking

After the three-year-old boy Arthur while she was off with the Sur while she was off with the Sur and what I don’t know is whether whether the husband knew that she’ met the the Ser but but it’s been a bit of a Tor time for she’s a big

Star she’s a massive star and she’s going to be at the Brits she’s a big star she’s a very big star and she’s going to be at the Brits on Saturday I was going to ask you about that on Saturday Saturday night where she’s having her big red carpet moment right

Um has she got a new record coming up well apparently she’s got lots of exciting projects coming up so so all this publ I don’t believe given given she’s just arrived back at heo alone without said hunk I don’t believe he’ll be accompanying her on the road carpet I

Think she he’s got another glamous interesting there because I remember I mean I used to go to the Brits well yeah when I was Arts editor at the time do you remember I used to get invited things like that um and it always used

To be quite a laugh it used to be quite a bunfight you know there was always I mean do you remember the famous chumba W moment and then always Keith Flint or someone doing something naughty it’s it’s very stayed these days it’s become very I mean last year Harry Styles was

Of course as a star of the show and we’ve had the controversy over the um getting rid of the gender the gender have they don’t have an award for female anymore they have and it meant that the first time they did that they were all

Male of course they were or M and Harry starles did well be careful what you wish for I’m afraid yeah I mean Har PC Studio Harry starles does very well with the whole sort of gender fluid I don’t think he can quite cover all the no he

He did he did have a pop at the organizes though so that was good but but this year and we’ve got jipa who I believe is going to open the show I’ve been told I’ve heard of J yes she’s lady a sing it’s a very very um woman

Friendly show this we’ve got Kylie man there do you think that self-consciously because of the whole criticism yes and we’ve got this wonderful woman called Ry oh I know Ray her name’s Rachel Rachel Agatha Keen from South London and Rachel a keen um is up for a record breaking

Seven nominations right she was on and the reason I know who she is is because she was on Jules Hollands hoter Nanny which I always watch religiously and she’s had this most fantastic come back because she was signed to a record label um who wouldn’t release her album she

Got very vocal she then spoke about how she was a victim of me too in the music industry and she had to then go to America to get signed so she’s now very much kind of two fingers up to the British music industry so I’m really excited to see whether she’s going to

Come out and and again have a bit of a go I think they should bring back male and female award I agree I completely agree and also do you know what the last big female British act that was signed in Britain was JEA in 2014 that’s a long

Time ago so we haven’t had a big British female star since 2014 think of how many men what about ad that was way before 2014 Adele has been around long long than that she just pulled out she pulled out of some concerts or something yeah

She’s pulled out of her um again last I just say again isn’t that but she hasn’t she hasn’t canceled them she’s postponed them which means her her fans won’t get their money back some of them were already in Las Vegas so so it’s she done this before why she done that she’s

Being a bit fleaky recently isn’t she she’s blaming her voice yeah yeah okay so that’s that’s a bit of a shame but I think back to the Brits you know you mentioned some moments I mean I’ve seen some moments there and of course we’ll all remember the you know the Oasis

Moments and Javis I remember my favorite moment is Madonna falling backwards down stairs after that poor dancer on her Cape she went forgiven him no she oh my goodness can you imagine that man never ever Lo up somewhere absolutely oh yeah firing s my so this year this year it

Does seem it kind of has lost its spark a bit I think this year you know you going I think all award ceremonies have have I’m sorry I know this is not this is your bread and butter but I think they’ve all got quite boring and repetitive to be honest we’ve got the

Oscars coming up soon the Oscars has got boring hasn’t it yeah except from two years ago when we had Will Smith and yes well that was quite a fun moment fun okay well thank you Katie very much you got Ellie ging and I’m going to now I you actually love Ellie she up

Your and I think you’re wasted as a journalist you should be a singer let’s have that again sing that little bit again CU I thought it was rather good come on you it for today join us again sing she sing reac to the stories making the headlights and make sure you like

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