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Controversial columnist Katie Hopkins is understood to have resigned from the Sun to write for rival Mail Online. | Controversial columnist Katie Hopkins is understood to have resigned from the Sun to write for rival Mail Online. |
Hopkins informed the Sun about her decision on Thursday. Her last column will be published on Friday, and she is expected to start working with Mail Online in November. | Hopkins informed the Sun about her decision on Thursday. Her last column will be published on Friday, and she is expected to start working with Mail Online in November. |
The columnist, who most recently sparked outrage by comparing migrants crossing the Mediterranean with cockroaches, is believed to have been attracted by the opportunity to publish her views to a global audience. | The columnist, who most recently sparked outrage by comparing migrants crossing the Mediterranean with cockroaches, is believed to have been attracted by the opportunity to publish her views to a global audience. |
Mail Online has 230 million monthly unique users globally, and 13.7 million average daily visitors. | Mail Online has 230 million monthly unique users globally, and 13.7 million average daily visitors. |
By comparison, the Sun, which has just started to open up its website after two years behind a content paywall, reported just 1.3 million average daily users in August. | By comparison, the Sun, which has just started to open up its website after two years behind a content paywall, reported just 1.3 million average daily users in August. |
Hopkins’ decision to leave the Sun, the largest selling daily UK tabloid in print, will be seen as a blow to News UK chief executive Rebekah Brooks and Sun editor Tony Gallagher, both of whom started their respective roles earlier this month. | Hopkins’ decision to leave the Sun, the largest selling daily UK tabloid in print, will be seen as a blow to News UK chief executive Rebekah Brooks and Sun editor Tony Gallagher, both of whom started their respective roles earlier this month. |
It is not thought that she will write columns for the print edition of the Daily Mail. | It is not thought that she will write columns for the print edition of the Daily Mail. |
Hopkins contract with the Sun was up for renewal at the end of the month, so technically she has resigned, although Friday’s column would have been her last under her current deal. | |
Hopkins is the second big-name editorial hiring by Martin Clarke, publisher and editor-in-chief of Mail Online, following his recruitment of Piers Morgan as editor-at-large at its burgeoning US operation last September. | Hopkins is the second big-name editorial hiring by Martin Clarke, publisher and editor-in-chief of Mail Online, following his recruitment of Piers Morgan as editor-at-large at its burgeoning US operation last September. |
Hopkins has defended her frequently controversial opinions arguing that she “gives a voice to the everyday good British citizen”. | Hopkins has defended her frequently controversial opinions arguing that she “gives a voice to the everyday good British citizen”. |
Hopkins’ “cockroaches” column for the Sun sparked more than 400 complaints to the press regulator IPSO, which rejected them, and more than 300,000 signed a petition calling for her to be sacked. | |
Hopkins also has a TV show on Discovery’s TLC channel in the UK, called If Katie Hopkins Ruled the World, although it has only performed modestly on pay-TV. | Hopkins also has a TV show on Discovery’s TLC channel in the UK, called If Katie Hopkins Ruled the World, although it has only performed modestly on pay-TV. |
Discovery has said that a seven-day consolidation of viewing figures for the show’s first three episodes showed an audience of 300,000. | Discovery has said that a seven-day consolidation of viewing figures for the show’s first three episodes showed an audience of 300,000. |