Kiwi journalist Dan Wootton has been suspended from his role presenting GB News in the UK following offensive comments made by a guest who was talking about a female reporter.
The channel called the conversation held between Wootton and Laurence Fox "totally unacceptable" and is conducting a full investigation.
Wootton grinned ear to ear as right-wing commentator Fox unleashed an abusive rant about a female journalist who had an opinion he didn’t agree with.
"Show me a single self-respected man that would ever like to climb into bed with that woman," Fox said.
"We don't need these sort of feminist 4.0, they're pathetic and embarrassing," he said.
"Who would want to s**g that?"
A grinning Wootton then broke into laughter.
The woman they were referring to was Ava Evans, who had become their target after arguing against the need for a minister for men to match the existing one for women in an earlier debate.
Appearing on UK TV show Jeremy Vine, Evans was still visibly in shock.
"I would much rather be judged or asked about my work than have people talk about my body," she said.
"Sorry, I’m a bit speechless - I just don’t really know what to say."
GB News bosses have suspended both Fox and Wootton, slamming the conversation as "totally unacceptable".
Wootton, 40, who first found stardom as the journalist who broke the Megxit story of Prince Harry and Meghan's split with Buckingham Palace, has apologised - twice - claiming he was in no way amused by Fox's comments.
But the sincerity of his remorse was called into question by Fox himself, who shared a screenshot of their private messages online which captures the pair laughing about the on-air exchange.
For his part, Fox has not apologised at all - instead, he's doubled down.
"I've been cancelled already and may well be again, but I don't care one bit, and I will keep defending my right to have an opinion on issues which concern me," he wrote on X.
But Fox's latest two cents just cost him and his Kiwi colleague their microphones.
