​​Rumbled: Dan Wootton ‘Comeback Planned’ on ‘Free Speech’ Platform Used by Russell Brand

Suspended GB News presenter Dan Wootton is preparing a return to screens on Rumble – the ‘free speech’ platform hosting former comedian Russell Brand since his YouTube earnings ban following rape allegations.

It comes as Michael Cass – the ‘official moderator’ for the ‘Dan Wootton Tonight Club’ – told its 7,400-strong X (formerly Twitter) followers that GB News had yet to announce its “intentions” around Wootton’s future and hit out at “weak and pathetic management” at the controversial channel.

Wootton is expected to return to the UK this week after a trip to his native New Zealand, from where he posted a video over the Christmas holiday in which he addressed unspecified “rumours”, claimed to have been “silenced” and called for a “media revolution”.

He offered a possible foretaste of any future Rumble content in his piece to camera in which promised to “be back” in 2024, telling followers: “You will be such an important part of that for me.”

He said: “Fishy Rishi [Sunak] is destroying the Conservative Party from the inside out. Slippery [Keir] Starmer is planning a communist takeover of the UK. The corporate media is deriding patriots as far-right yobs, and Sly [Sky] News and the British Bashing Corporation [the BBC] have hit a new low with their coverage of the conflict in Israel.”

Since mid-November GB News has – “until further notice” – filled Wootton’s week-nightly slot with appearances from colleague Patrick Christys. It is not clear whether the former Murdoch executive is continuing to collect his £600,000 annual salary, having been suspended over an on-air misogynistic rant by actor-turned-activist Laurence Fox, during which Wootton smirked as Fox made disparaging sexual remarks about political journalist Ava Evans.

That followed months of speculation about Wootton’s future on GB News after a three-year deep investigation by this newspaper into his personal and professional conduct, in which he was exposed as a serial catfish targeting friends and colleagues with attempts to obtain sexual imagery by deception.