I’m Sure This Woman Is Wired Up Wrong

[Bobbisox1]

https://news.sky.com/story/katie-hopkins-australia-orders-far-right-british-commentator-to-be-deported-after-appalling-behaviour-while-in-quarantine-12358885

Does she think she’s above everything and anything?

[youngmafbog]

//This is the link he sent me//

The Guardian. No bias there whatsoever then!!

[burlyshirley]

Here we go - I like her, but then again I've always liked 'feisty' !

[Bobbisox1]

Ymb please don’t look into something I didn’t imply, yes there’s people with a similar vein of thought on here as she has, and I may disagree with that but it’s not my place to look down on anyone as everyone has a right to an opinion

[jno]

the Aussies are keen on deporting people, so it's hard to see why the government let her in in the first place, with Covid all round - it's not just that they're letting in idiots, they're also banning sane people.

[jno]

ymb, the facts are the same in the Sky report Bobbi linked to, and in The Sun

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/15627268/katie-hopkins-axed-australias-big-brother/

[Canary42]

I think she started off at an appropriate level but then became severely addicted to seeking publicity at every opportunity - so it's basically immature attention-seeking behaviour. Like a whining child who eventually morphs into a raging meltdown tantrum.

[sunny-dave]

'feisty' - my harris

She's a relentless self-publicist and self-opinionated wind-up merchant, with utter contempt for the lower class (her words) who trail along in her wake.

She has no actual beliefs, beyond a series of deliberately contrarian statements designed to generate column inches.

I suppose you could (at a pinch) have respect for her as a carefully cultivated "pantomime villain", but feisty - no way.

[sunny-dave]

Read this scholarly paper about her and the 'damage' that CBB did to her image and how she needed to go over the top with nastiness to repair said image.

https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/27875/1/KH_and_CBB-BLEAKLEY.pdf

This is not a woman with a shred of principle or any firmly held beliefs - just a very nasty piece of work determined on self-promotion no matter what the damage to anyone else.

[Ellipsis]

I think she has mental health issues, albeit different ones to most celebs that are desperate to be in the spotlight ...

[jno]

dave, you may be missing a wider point here, about whether "firmly held beliefs" means anything. There was a book back in the 60s called Society of the Spectacle or something like that, which predicted that with the spread of mass media the "public face" that people show to the wider world would be more significant than the "private face" - "the sunny-dave nobody knows", that sort of thing - that people are assumed to have away behind closed doors.

I think that's proving prophetic. There are already Bafta awards for "constructed reality" programmes, a phrase that would have been meaningless 50 years ago

http://awards.bafta.org/award/2021/television/reality-constructed-factual

and now (thank you!) I learn that there's a university thesis on Katie Hopkins. Moreover, mainstream media are happy to hire her on the basis of this "public face", though Australia's government it seems are not.

(Did you know their PM Morrison believes he is doing God's work?

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/apr/26/scott-morrison-tells-christian-conference-he-was-called-to-do-gods-work-as-prime-minister )

Anyway, Hopkins is a prime example of someone who's succeeded in life as a purely public figure, validated by popular votes on reality TV and by academic study. God-botherers like Morrison may disapprove, but why should she change her ways? Her life so far has been extremely successful.

[Mozz71]

Jno- //God-botherers like Morrison may disapprove, but why should she change her ways? Her life so far has been extremely successful.//

In this particular case that's totally irrelevant, both Hopkins' persona and Morrison's religious beliefs. She went to a foreign country, flouted their lockdown laws and boasted about it online. What did she think would happen? A friendly warning? Most countries would have acted exactly the same way. Deporting her was the correct, no, the only, response.

[Gromit]

It is ironic that Hopkins, Farage and one or two ABers are fans of the Australian Immigration System.
Their ability to kick out foreign nut jobs is enviable.

[ichkeria]

It probably serves them right for signing her up in the first place.

[naomi24]

For the ‘crimes’ committed, the sentence seems a bit drastic. However, she is one of those people whose reputation precedes them - and we all know what happens when the baying, holier-than-thou get their hooks into them. They leave no stone unturned - and if they don’t find what they’re looking for under any particular stone, they sneak a product of their own fevered imagination in there anyway. Such is life.

[jno]

Mozz, I was answering the OP about "wired up wrong". My broader answer was to suggest that she's wired up dead right for the way society is going.

As it happens, I may have missed something, but none of the reports I've read had said she's flouted lockdown laws, but rather that she claimed to have done so. If in fact she didn't then she's being deported for annoying people, which is doubtless legal in Australia but not necessarily admirable.

[Gromit]

I like this quote from the Australian Immigration Minister…
// “I‘m the one who wanted to send home Johnny Depp’s dogs so I have no problem sending home someone who wants to flout our laws,” Joyce told the ABC. “If you want to do that, pack your bongo and get out of our country.” //

[naomi24]

Just out of interest I wonder how many foreign criminals are languishing in prison there?

[tiggerblue10]

Having watched her on CBB a few years back she comes across as a bully.

[choux]

Is it the people or the programme though?

How can we forget this:


(Going for a lie down now ;) )

[MWG14]

Who exactly is Katie Hopkins? I had never heard of her until I saw her name & photo in today's newspaper.