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Daily Mail
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
10 News+ host Denham Hitchcock hits back at viewers criticising his new current affairs show amid low ratings
Denham Hitchcock has hit back at viewers criticising his new program 10News+. The reporter, who was announced as the face of the show alongside Amelia Brace in June, responded to two followers who left brutal comments on his Instagram page. One social media user accused the presenter of sharing 'fake news' via the fresh news platform. However, the 48-year-old didn't hold back, asking: 'Which stories have you seen on this program that have been fake?' Another troll slammed Denham for his vaccine stance, writing: 'How are we supposed to believe you @denhamhitchcock? From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the DailyMail's new showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop. 'You were vaccine injured and decided to take a payout over the truth! At a time when millions of people needed popular voices to tell the truth … you tried … then took off on your yacht,' the person wrote. Denham, who was hospitalised in 2021 after experiencing a rare side effect called pericarditis following his initial two Pfizer jabs, took aim at the accusation in a fiery response. 'What payout you tool? I quit my job and went sailing to spend time with my family.' He went on: 'I am still looking into all this – I just don't believe everything I read like you do. It takes time to prove this stuff. Not just rant. Grow up.' Earlier this month, it was reported that 10 News+ had been savaged in the ratings following its premiere. The current affairs program, slotted in to replace The Project after it was sensationally axed following 16 years on air, was watched by a paltry 291,000 people, according to ratings released by OzTAM. Channel Nine and Channel Seven dominated the time slot, with 7News attracting 1.5million viewers, and 9News following closely with 1.45million viewers. 10News+'s figures only got worse, dropping to 244,000 by the following Tuesday and sliding further still to 205,000 by midweek. Later in the week, ratings kept skidding into oblivion, with just 159,000 national viewers tuning in. By Friday, the situation was decidedly grim, with only 152,000 viewers switching on the in-depth news program. The first night figures shocked industry insiders, after the show heavily promoted its investigation into Australian mother Debbie Voulgaris, who has been jailed for 16 years after smuggling 7kg of drugs into Taiwan. The show's hosts opened the episode by telling the audience what they can expect from the hard-hitting program.
The Sun
4 days ago
- Politics
- The Sun
BBC bosses might as well be replaced with Muppets – they're a national embarrassment and no longer promote honesty
I SPENT decades defending the BBC. In a world of fake news, I used to say it had the best journalists and highest standards. 5 5 I thought it promoted Britain's values of democracy, honesty and fairness around the world. Not any more. It has gone from the world's best broadcaster to a national embarrassment. You might as well replace BBC bosses with the cast of the Muppet Show. This week, it hit a new low. It had to finally admit it had paid the son of a Hamas official to star in a film about Gaza. That broke the BBC's own rules, but Deborah Turness, the chief of BBC News, told staff there is a 'difference' between the terrorist group's political and military wings. All of Hamas is proscribed. You'd expect someone paid £430,000 to know this. The BBC cannot be trusted to report on the war between Israel and Hamas. Instead we get unbalanced coverage. When it rushed to accuse Israel of bombing a hospital in Gaza, international editor Jeremy Bowen said it had been 'destroyed' and 'flattened'. John Torode SACKED from MasterChef after 'racist remark' in another blow for scandal-hit show after Gregg Wallace saga The hospital hadn't been hit at all. This is not a theoretical debate about a conflict thousands of miles away. The BBC's coverage has a terrible impact on people in the UK. Constantly falsely accusing Israel of committing a genocide will fuel hatred towards people who identify with Israel, which is the vast majority of Jewish people. And look what happened at Glastonbury, as the BBC broadcast a group chanting 'Death to the IDF'. It has been three weeks, yet no one has been held responsible. Sack Tim Davie What needs to change? Start by replacing Jeremy Bowen. Close BBC Arabic which squanders taxpayers' money on content that barely differs from Qatar's propaganda channel Al-Jazeera. And sack BBC staff guilty of glorifying terror online. Deborah Turness needs to go and Tim Davie should follow if he can't take swift action to clear up the mess. It seems the only people who get it are Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy and Ofcom boss Dame Melanie Dawes who said the public's trust is being undermined. Nandy has already been in to read the riot act. She was completely right to demand changes at the top because that's the only way this can be sorted out. 5 5 5
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
Donald Trump Jr.'s Denial Of Daddy's Doodles Fails Miserably
Donald Trump Jr. attempted to step up for his dad Friday morning, but ended up stepping in something else instead― metaphorically, that is. After The Wall Street Journal published a story revealing new details about PresidentDonald Trump's relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the president declared the story to be fake news in a post on his Truth Social platform. 'These are not my words, not the way I talk. Also, I don't draw pictures,' the president insisted in the post. Many MAGA fans tried to defend their fearless leader by claiming they can't imagine him using 'enigma,' a word The Wall Street Journal reports he used in a birthday message to Epstein. Trump Jr. defended his father with a post on X, in which he claimed his father 'has a very specific way of speaking' and insisted 'the insanity written in the Wall Street Journal AIN'T IT and everyone knows it.' He added that 'in 47 years, I've never seen him doodle once.' My father has a very specific way of speaking. People all over the world have mimicked it for decades. The insanity written in the Wall Street Journal, AIN'T IT and everyone knows it. Also in 47 years I've never seen him doodle once. Give me a break with the fake 'journalisming' — Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) July 18, 2025 Sadly for Trump Jr., his loyalty wasn't as strong as his ability to self-own in embarrassing, easily preventable ways. You see, many folks on X were able to quickly find 'receipts' that contradicted Trump Jr.'s dubious claims in his attempt to dismiss the Journal's reporting. Donald Trump's drawings span several years, with known pieces created in the late 1990's and early to mid-2000's. Some sketches were produced for charity auctions in 2003, 2004, 2005, and a George Washington Bridge drawing in — Maile (@MaileOnX) July 18, 2025 lol he was a MASTER DOODLER, in fact, it's the one thing in life he was genuinely talented at — Stefanie Iris Weiss 🔥⚡️🇺🇦 (@EcoSexuality) July 18, 2025 'Carson is an enigma to me' — Olga Lautman 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@OlgaNYC1211) July 18, 2025 Interesting what you say that is false. — Ford News (@FordJohnathan5) July 18, 2025 He never doodles — L King (@71Elvis77) July 18, 2025 Here is another… — BerserkerChilla (@2PercentChilla) July 18, 2025 Roflmao. He does doodle and he even uses big words sometimes, but in this case he probably just signed what someone drew for him (maybe ask ghislaine aunty, she probably knows) 😁 — omar ali (@omarali50) July 18, 2025 Have you read your father's books? — Berk (@AwayBerk) July 18, 2025 Aren't these your dads 'doodles' he sold? — Lisa Christine •. (@lisachristinect) July 18, 2025 Related... Trump Once Gave Epstein A Racy Birthday Card With A Strange Note: Report Trump Lashes Out At Rupert Murdoch Over WSJ Epstein Bombshell Fox News Reporter Finally Asks Karoline Leavitt What We're All Thinking About 'Epstein Hoax'
Daily Mail
5 days ago
- Politics
- Daily Mail
Opinion: Trump's Epstein letter is just the start of this crisis
If you believe Donald Trump , the letter published today in the Wall Street Journal, purporting to be from him to Jeffrey Epstein , is 'fake news'. According to the report, the message – prepared for Epstein's 50th birthday – 'featured several lines of typewritten text framed by what appeared to be a hand-drawn outline of a naked woman'. It is also said to include the cryptic comment: 'We have certain things in common Jeffrey.' Trump is threatening to sue. And his allies have already been despatched to angrily defend the President. 'Forgive my language but this story is complete and utter [expletive],' Vice President JD Vance raged. 'Does anyone honestly believe this sounds like Donald Trump?' Frankly, yes. That's part of the problem. We've all heard the clip of Donald Trump boasting about how he likes to 'grab them [women] by the [expletive]. We've also seen the 1992 footage of him partying with Epstein on his Mar-a-Lago estate. At one point in the video, Trump is seen grabbing a woman towards him and patting her behind. So yes, the letter – if it exists – would be very much in character. But whether or not it's real or fake isn't really that important. Because as far as significant sections of his hitherto unbreachable MAGA base are concerned, Trump is already complicit. And on this occasion, he has no one else to blame. In August 2019, soon after Epstein killed himself, Trump reposted a tweet claiming Bill Clinton was implicated in his death. Throughout the 2020 election campaign he continued to peddle conspiracy theories about the 'real' cause of Epstein's death. Then in 2024, when back out on the campaign trail, he returned to the issue. If elected, he would 'declassify' the Epstein files. For his supporters, it became a defining example of their hero's commitment to finally draining the Washington swamp. But then Trump won. And suddenly his commitment to exposing the full, squalid saga began to cool. Pam Bondi, his Attorney General, began dragging her feet on declassification of the files. And the MAGA faithful started to get restless. Then in June, former Trump cheerleader Elon Musk sent his 'bombshell' missive. 'Donald Trump is in the Epstein files', he claimed, 'that is the real reason they have not been made public '. Trump's MAGA supporters were stunned. Musk was one of them. Would he really be turning so brutally on his political mentor if there wasn't some truth to the allegation? At which point the White House began to frantically backtrack. The Epstein files had been massively overhyped. There really was nothing much to see after all. An FBI memo was published revealing the infamous 'client list' supposedly owned by Epstein didn't actually exist. (A statement which directly contradicted Pam Bondi, who had written to FBI director Kash Patel in which she 'acknowledged receiving the Epstein files containing' the convicted sexual offender's 'list of contacts and a list of victims' names'.) This was the moment the patience of the MAGA true-believers finally snapped. They had been conned. Donald Trump had lied to them. He had no intention of revealing the truth about Epstein. His erstwhile supporters began circulating videos of them torching their coveted Make America Great Again caps. Trump Senate loyalist Josh Hawley publicly broke ranks to say 'I think it is maybe a little difficult to believe the idea that DoJ and the FBI… don't have any idea who Epstein's clients were'. How can he make those who believed him when he said Epstein flourished at the heart of a malign, all-encompassing establishment cover-up, that there is no cover-up after all? These are the same people who genuinely believed Hillary Clinton was running a human trafficking racket in the basement of a Washington pizza parlour. How will he now make them embrace his version of the truth, rather than shocking – if enticing – fiction? The President has claimed the Wall Street Journal article is a 'scam'. But his entire political career has been built upon scamming the very people who are now turning on him. So he can scream 'fake news!!!' all he likes. The Epstein Affair has now become a full-blown political crisis for Donald Trump. And the blame for that lies squarely with Donald Trump himself.
Daily Mail
5 days ago
- Politics
- Daily Mail
DAN HODGES: This one line in Donald Trump's squalid birthday letter to Epstein could end him. No wonder he's claiming it's a scam
If you believe Donald Trump, the letter published today in the Wall Street Journal, purporting to be from him to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, is 'fake news'. According to the report, the message – prepared for Epstein's 50th birthday – 'featured several lines of typewritten text framed by what appeared to be a hand-drawn outline of a naked woman'. It is also said to include the cryptic comment: 'We have certain things in common Jeffrey.' Trump is threatening to sue. And his allies have already been despatched to angrily defend the President. 'Forgive my language but this story is complete and utter b******t,' Vice President JD Vance raged. 'Does anyone honestly believe this sounds like Donald Trump?'
