{"id":915753,"date":"2026-04-24T16:40:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T16:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/915753\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T16:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T16:40:17","slug":"dan-walker-settles-channel-5-sexism-row-as-co-star-drops-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/915753\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Walker settles Channel 5 sexism row as co-star drops claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Walker has settled a sexism and bullying claim brought by Claudia-Liza Vanderpuije.<\/p>\n<p>The case, involving ITN and Channel 5, was resolved for an undisclosed sum with no admission of liability.<\/p>\n<p>The tribunal, which was due to last five weeks, was halted after last-minute negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Vanderpuije has now withdrawn all allegations and confirmed she will not pursue the claims further.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Walker had strongly denied the accusations and was prepared to call multiple character witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>The dispute centred on claims of a \u201ctoxic culture\u201d within the Channel 5 newsroom.<\/p>\n<p>An ITN spokesperson said:  &#8220;We continue to deny these claims in full, and we are glad this matter has been resolved.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>More to follow&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>                LATEST DEVELOPMENTS<\/p>\n<p>Please write at least 4 paragraphs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dan Walker has settled a sexism and bullying claim brought by Claudia-Liza Vanderpuije. The case, involving ITN and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":915754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[4080,4781,1458,77,12,382,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-915753","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-celebrity","10":"tag-channel-5","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-tv","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116460678468358360","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/915754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}