The BBC’s plans to hire Nick Kyrgios as a Wimbledon pundit this summer have sparked outrage among senior MPs and women’s campaigners. Caroline Nokes, the women and equalities committee chair, said the corporation should “hang its head in shame” for agreeing terms after he last year admitted assaulting an ex-girlfriend. Kyrgios admitted assaulting an ex-girlfriend in February last year but …
Joey Barton has been left with egg on his face after wrongly accusing Sky Sports’ Courtney Sweetman-Kirk of getting her facts wrong during Liverpool’s Premier League win over Fulham. In an interview on the TalkTV programme Piers Morgan Uncensored, the controversial former player cited Sweetman-Kirk’s co-commentary when Waturu Endo scored for Liverpool on Sunday, saying: “She talked about, ‘Endo scores …
A far-right former TV pundit with multiple hate-speech convictions officially entered the race for France’s presidency Tuesday and warned his supporters that they would likely be called racists for backing his anti-immigration and anti-Islam views. That flash of temper, which Zemmour later acknowledged on Twitter was “very inelegant,” cast fresh doubt on the temperament and electability of the author and …
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BT Sport marked International Women's Day by showcasing an all-female line-up of pundits and broadcasters for their Premier League and WSL double-header. Former England Women captain Faye White joined Eni Aluko and presenter Lynsey Hipgrave for analysis on Chelsea v Everton in the Premier League before the WSL clash between Bristol City and Reading later this evening. BT Sport marked …
