Giles Coren’s comments about the death of Dawn Foster were met with calls for him to lose his jobs
Giles Coren’s comments about the death of Dawn Foster were met with calls for him to lose his jobs
THE BBC has said it is “sorry to see Giles Coren go” – with the presenter set to exit his gig co-hosting BBC2’s Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond The Lobby alongside Monica Galetti after having faced backlash for tweets about the death of a journalist.
The official reason for the move has been confirmed as a “diary clash”, the Mail+ revealed.
Coren, meanwhile, said he would miss “going on holiday with Monica Galetti six times a year at the licence payer’s expense”.
Last year, the presenter, 53, published two now-deleted tweets after the death of Jacobin journalist Dawn Foster at the age of 34 – which were branded “sickening”.
He tweeted: “When someone dies who has trolled you on Twitter, saying vile and hurtful things about you and your family, is it okay to be like, ‘I’m sorry for the people who loved you, and any human death diminishes me, but, HA HA HA HA HA HA’?”
Another version of the tweet read: “When someone dies who has trolled you on Twitter, saying vile and hurtful things about you and your family, is it okay to be like, ‘I’m sorry for the people who loved you, and any human death diminishes me, but can you fuck off on to hell now where you belong’?”
The National:
The BBC was praised by Coren for the “beautiful” handling of his exit from the show – but a corporation source told Mail+ this his replacement would be “the opposite of Giles” and that the scandal had left his position untenable.
However, the BBC’s public statement said: “We’re sorry to see Giles go and would like to thank him for his contribution over four successful series.”
Coren revealed that he would be leaving the show in a post on Instagram.
He said: “I’ve got some good news and some bad news. The good news is that I’ve had a knee-trembling new television series commissioned that has the potential to be by far the best thing I’ve done on telly. The bad news is that, in terms of scheduling, I have had to choose between this new baby and another series of Amazing Hotels.
“Listen, Amazing is a wonderful show. I love filming it and I love going on holiday with @galettigram six times a year at the licence payer’s expense.
“But I have a day job writing and podcasting for The Times and I have only ever been able to make one TV series a year. Each time a new opportunity comes along I have to dump the one I’m on.”
Coren was met with a backlash after his comments about Foster, with many accusing the food writer of being upset after Foster suggested he landed his Times job thanks to his family connections.
Coren’s father was Alan Coren, a writer and panellist on shows such as The News Quiz and Call My Bluff. His sister is TV presenter Victoria Coren Mitchell.
He did not respond to the paper’s request for comment.
Amazing what a c**t he is and how much I love his poker-playing legend sister
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I didn’t know who this guy is but after reading the article he does come across as a d*ck. Even if that’s because of his comment of having six holidays a year on the tax payers. The fact that I know who his dad and sister are through their own fame does kind of point that he has no talent and is using it as an excuse for a jolly
I seem to remember him calling a 23 year old journalist a
Is this the same Giles Coren that said it’s well known within the upper echelons of society that Prince Peggam has been having an affair?
Isn’t it clear as day why many people in this country want the BBC TV licence permanently scrapped, when you have individuals such as this one, financially set for life, behaving like this on his own social media account, while said TV corporation generates an utterly false cover up departure speech for him – while faceless insiders leak the true reasons to the papers, as if it were a disgusting thing for us little people to know the real truth.
Just a little bit more perspective – this presenter has gloated about spending tax payers money on holidays, while pensioners have recently been on national television interviews to say they would rather serve time in prison than pay their licence.
I already formed an opinion on this issue long ago, however reading this headline tonight has confirmed it further – we want to live in a future full of choice and opportunity – therefore we should have the option of no longer paying to/and watch the BBC altogether. It’s time the BBC took a long hard look at itself, including this tv presenter, and admit that they themselves are the reason the British people are switching off.
My favourite part was when he made fake Twitter accounts to be anti-semetic to himself to try to make his critics look like bigots. Odious man.
Giles Coren is a homophobic POS IMO.
A few years ago he tweeted
>”My prediction for next year is Owen Jones getting a peerage in Corbyn’s resignation honours (does he get a go at that?) and becoming a fat old lord getting smashed on madeira in the morning and chasing young researchers with tight bottoms up and down the corridors all afternoon.”
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Giles Coren’s comments about the death of Dawn Foster were met with calls for him to lose his jobs
Giles Coren’s comments about the death of Dawn Foster were met with calls for him to lose his jobs
THE BBC has said it is “sorry to see Giles Coren go” – with the presenter set to exit his gig co-hosting BBC2’s Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond The Lobby alongside Monica Galetti after having faced backlash for tweets about the death of a journalist.
The official reason for the move has been confirmed as a “diary clash”, the Mail+ revealed.
Coren, meanwhile, said he would miss “going on holiday with Monica Galetti six times a year at the licence payer’s expense”.
Last year, the presenter, 53, published two now-deleted tweets after the death of Jacobin journalist Dawn Foster at the age of 34 – which were branded “sickening”.
He tweeted: “When someone dies who has trolled you on Twitter, saying vile and hurtful things about you and your family, is it okay to be like, ‘I’m sorry for the people who loved you, and any human death diminishes me, but, HA HA HA HA HA HA’?”
Another version of the tweet read: “When someone dies who has trolled you on Twitter, saying vile and hurtful things about you and your family, is it okay to be like, ‘I’m sorry for the people who loved you, and any human death diminishes me, but can you fuck off on to hell now where you belong’?”
The National:
The BBC was praised by Coren for the “beautiful” handling of his exit from the show – but a corporation source told Mail+ this his replacement would be “the opposite of Giles” and that the scandal had left his position untenable.
However, the BBC’s public statement said: “We’re sorry to see Giles go and would like to thank him for his contribution over four successful series.”
Coren revealed that he would be leaving the show in a post on Instagram.
He said: “I’ve got some good news and some bad news. The good news is that I’ve had a knee-trembling new television series commissioned that has the potential to be by far the best thing I’ve done on telly. The bad news is that, in terms of scheduling, I have had to choose between this new baby and another series of Amazing Hotels.
“Listen, Amazing is a wonderful show. I love filming it and I love going on holiday with @galettigram six times a year at the licence payer’s expense.
“But I have a day job writing and podcasting for The Times and I have only ever been able to make one TV series a year. Each time a new opportunity comes along I have to dump the one I’m on.”
Coren was met with a backlash after his comments about Foster, with many accusing the food writer of being upset after Foster suggested he landed his Times job thanks to his family connections.
Coren’s father was Alan Coren, a writer and panellist on shows such as The News Quiz and Call My Bluff. His sister is TV presenter Victoria Coren Mitchell.
He did not respond to the paper’s request for comment.
Amazing what a c**t he is and how much I love his poker-playing legend sister
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I didn’t know who this guy is but after reading the article he does come across as a d*ck. Even if that’s because of his comment of having six holidays a year on the tax payers. The fact that I know who his dad and sister are through their own fame does kind of point that he has no talent and is using it as an excuse for a jolly
I seem to remember him calling a 23 year old journalist a
Is this the same Giles Coren that said it’s well known within the upper echelons of society that Prince Peggam has been having an affair?
Isn’t it clear as day why many people in this country want the BBC TV licence permanently scrapped, when you have individuals such as this one, financially set for life, behaving like this on his own social media account, while said TV corporation generates an utterly false cover up departure speech for him – while faceless insiders leak the true reasons to the papers, as if it were a disgusting thing for us little people to know the real truth.
Just a little bit more perspective – this presenter has gloated about spending tax payers money on holidays, while pensioners have recently been on national television interviews to say they would rather serve time in prison than pay their licence.
I already formed an opinion on this issue long ago, however reading this headline tonight has confirmed it further – we want to live in a future full of choice and opportunity – therefore we should have the option of no longer paying to/and watch the BBC altogether. It’s time the BBC took a long hard look at itself, including this tv presenter, and admit that they themselves are the reason the British people are switching off.
My favourite part was when he made fake Twitter accounts to be anti-semetic to himself to try to make his critics look like bigots. Odious man.
Giles Coren is a homophobic POS IMO.
A few years ago he tweeted
>”My prediction for next year is Owen Jones getting a peerage in Corbyn’s resignation honours (does he get a go at that?) and becoming a fat old lord getting smashed on madeira in the morning and chasing young researchers with tight bottoms up and down the corridors all afternoon.”