MailOnline has suspended Dan Wootton’s column while allegations he used a pseudonym and offered colleagues money for sexual images are investigated.
The GB News presenter, who has written a regular column for MailOnline since 2021, claims to be the victim of a “witch hunt” after being accused of using fake online identities to trick men into sending him explicit images for tens of thousands of pounds.
Wootton has denied any criminal wrongdoing, although he has admitted to “errors of judgment in the past”.
The broadcaster, who hosted the Dan Wootton Tonight programme on GB News as scheduled on Thursday night without reference to the suspension, dismissed the allegations on his show last month as “simply untrue” and a “campaign to destroy my life”.
In a new statement, a DMG Media spokesperson said: "The allegations are obviously serious but also complex and historic and there is an independent investigation under way at the media group which employed him during the relevant period.
"In the meantime, his freelance column with MailOnline has been paused."
Last month, the TV presenter and columnist used his self-titled GB News programme to admit he had made "errors of judgement" in the past but branded the "criminal allegations" as "simply untrue".
He said he was the victim of a "witchhunt" by "nefarious players", and that the allegations had been spread by a "race to the bottom" on social media.
A spokesperson for DMG media, the parent company of MailOnline, confirmed Wootton would not be working for them for the foreseeable future. They said: “We are continuing to consider a series of allegations which Dan Wootton – who has written columns for MailOnline since 2021 as one of several outside freelance contributors – has strenuously denied.
“The allegations are obviously serious but also complex and historic and there is an independent investigation under way at the media group which employed him during the relevant period. In the meantime, his freelance column with MailOnline has been paused.”
“There are dark forces out to try and take this brilliant channel down,” he added.
Wootton, who was The Sun’s star showbiz reporter and rose to become its Executive Editor, had not addressed DMG’s move on his social channels at press time. Instead, he retweeted excerpts from his show, which broadly attacks left-wing politics and perceived ‘wokeism.’
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