Katie Hopkins

Katie Olivia Hopkins was born on 13 February 1975,Index of Births, Marriages and Deaths in England and Wales, 1837–1983. in Barnstaple, England. Her father was an electrical engineer for the local Electricity Board, and her mother was a bank teller. She has an older sister. She was brought up in Bideford,{{cite news|title=Bideford girl Katie Hopkins stars in Big Brother|url=http://www.northdevonjournal.co.uk/Bideford-girl-Katie-Hopkins-stars-Big-Brother/story-25853814-detail/story.html|access-date=21 April 2015|work=North Devon Journal|date=14 January 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150504125014/http://www.northdevonjournal.co.uk/Bideford-girl-Katie-Hopkins-stars-Big-Brother/story-25853814-detail/story.html|archive-date=4 May 2015}} attended a private convent school from age three to 16, played sports and learned to play the piano and violin. As a child she believed she was "going to be the colonel of the forces. I loved the military. I loved the discipline, the rigour, the big shouty men."{{cite news|last=Aitkenhead|first=Decca|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/feb/14/katie-hopkins-interview|title=Katie Hopkins interview: 'Can you imagine the pent-up rage?'|work=The Guardian|date=14 February 2014|access-date=19 December 2016|archive-date=21 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161221151209/https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/feb/14/katie-hopkins-interview|url-status=live}}

Hopkins instead studied economics at the University of Exeter, receiving sponsorship from the British Army's Intelligence Corps. She spent weekends with the Officers' Training Corps. She completed her military training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, but had an epileptic seizure during the final passing-out ceremony, and as a result was unable to take up her commission. Hopkins said she kept her epilepsy secret while attending Sandhurst, as this would have prevented her from being commissioned.{{cite magazine |last=Fox |first=Peter |date=December 2010 |title=Epilepsy in the public eye |magazine=Epilepsy Today |publisher=Epilepsy Action}} Instead, she joined a business consultancy and moved to Manhattan, New York City, before returning to the UK in 2005. In September 2006 she joined the Met Office as a global brand consultant.

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In late 2006 Hopkins was allowed to take unpaid leave from her Met Office job as part of her probationary period of employment to take part in series three of the reality TV show The Apprentice.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6743877.stm|title=Apprentice contender Katie fired|date=12 June 2007|access-date=16 January 2015|work=BBC News|archive-date=14 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170814024357/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6743877.stm|url-status=live}} In the format used at that time, contestants in The Apprentice competed for a £100,000-a-year job working for the businessman Alan Sugar. Hopkins rejected Sugar's offer of a place in the final episode of the programme, citing problems regarding childcare provision for her daughters, and withdrew from the competition at the end of the penultimate task.{{cite book|title=Women of the Revolution: Forty Years of Feminism|first=Kira|last=Cochrane|publisher=Guardian Books|year=2012|page=222|isbn=978-0-852-65262-6}} The episode gained 6.2 million viewers, while the following You're Fired! episode, in which Hopkins was interviewed, was watched by 3.1 million.{{cite news|url=http://media.guardian.co.uk/overnights/story/0,,2097470,00.html|title=The Apprentice beats Diana show|access-date=15 June 2007|work=The Guardian|location=London|first=Leigh|last=Holmwood|date=7 June 2007|archive-date=21 February 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240221013849/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/jun/07/overnights|url-status=live}}

Throughout her time on The Apprentice, Hopkins made several critical comments on camera. The comments were directed at her fellow contestants, viewers of television shopping channels, maternity leave,{{cite news|url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article1894251.ece|title=Last night's TV|access-date=15 June 2007|work=The Times|location=London|first=Tim|last=Teeman|date=7 June 2007|archive-date=15 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615181119/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article1894251.ece|url-status=dead}}{{subscription required}} fake tans, and overweight people.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/jul/05/katie-hopkins-apprentice-candidate-rent-a-gob|title=Katie Hopkins: from Apprentice candidate to rent-a-gob|access-date=6 March 2015|work=The Guardian|date=5 July 2013|archive-date=4 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150104161402/http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/jul/05/katie-hopkins-apprentice-candidate-rent-a-gob|url-status=live}} Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill writer Richard Curtis expressed his distaste for Hopkins; while accepting his Fellowship award at the 2007 BAFTA awards, he jokingly vowed to kill her.{{cite web |url=http://www.irishexaminer.com/breaking/story.asp?j=253874945&p=z5387576x&n=253875831|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160120163630/http://www.irishexaminer.com/breaking/story.asp?j=253874945&p=z5387576x&n=253875831|url-status=dead|archive-date=20 January 2016|title=Casualty stuns soap rivals to net first BAFTA|access-date=15 June 2007|work=Irish Examiner}} When video clips of her comments about other candidates were shown on The Apprentice: You're Fired!, following up on the main programme, Hopkins said that they were "quite funny". Michelle Mone, the founder of lingerie company Ultimo and a guest on the panel, criticised Hopkins, calling her "exceptionally selfish", said she was not to be trusted, and accused her of giving "businesswomen a bad name".{{cite news|last=Symington-Mills|first=Louisa |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-business/11303153/The-Apprentice-2014-Boardroom-bitches-Women-deserve-better.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-business/11303153/The-Apprentice-2014-Boardroom-bitches-Women-deserve-better.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Boardroom bitches may be good for TV ratings. But businesswomen deserve better|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=London|date=19 December 2014|access-date=16 April 2016}}{{cbignore}}{{cite news|first=John|last=Plunkett|title=The Apprentice – series three, episode 11|url=http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/organgrinder/2007/06/the_apprentice_series_three_ep_10.html|work=The Guardian |date=6 June 2007|access-date=24 July 2007 | location=London|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070829052711/http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/organgrinder/2007/06/the_apprentice_series_three_ep_10.html#more|archive-date=29 August 2007}} Sugar was criticised over his questioning of Hopkins about her childcare arrangements, and accused of violating the Sex Discrimination Act 1975.{{cite news |url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article1901452.ece |title=Sugar faces sexism row as ex-Apprentice sells story |access-date=15 June 2007 |work=The Times |location=London |date=8 June 2007 |first=Adam |last=Sherwin |archive-date=20 November 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120043825/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article1901452.ece |url-status=dead }} The incident received substantial media comment.{{cite news|url=http://business.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2098403,00.html|title=All fired up|access-date=15 June 2007|work=The Guardian|location=London|date=8 June 2007|archive-date=14 June 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070614090703/http://business.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2098403,00.html?|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/features/display.var.1456687.0.0.php |title=Katie gone at last, but was the firing squad fair? |access-date=15 June 2007 |work=The Herald |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070625120334/http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/features/display.var.1456687.0.0.php |archive-date=25 June 2007 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/film-tv/news/article2633484.ece |title=Sugar accused of sexism after apprentice quits |access-date=15 June 2007 |work=The Belfast Telegraph |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20070711043827/http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/film-tv/news/article2633484.ece |archive-date=11 July 2007 }}{{cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/sir-alan-accused-of-sexism-towards-apprentice-villain-katie-6588681.html|title=Sir Alan accused of sexism towards Apprentice villain Katie|work=Evening Standard|location=London|date=7 June 2007|access-date=15 June 2007|archive-date=7 September 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120907192041/http://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/sir-alan-accused-of-sexism-towards-apprentice-villain-katie-6588681.html|url-status=live}} Sugar argued his case in an interview with GMTV host Fiona Phillips, stating that he was aware of the rules.{{cite episode|title=Sir Alan Sugar Interview|series=GMTV|station=ITV1|airdate=13 June 2007|season=14}}{{primary-inline|date=September 2024}}

In June 2007, Hopkins lost her job at the Met Office, which said she did not meet the required standards to complete her probationary period, and it confirmed that her performance on The Apprentice and confessions about her private life were a factor in her dismissal.{{cite web |url=http://www.rte.ie/arts/2007/0612/theapprentice.html |title=Katie Hopkins fired from real job |access-date=15 June 2007 |publisher=Raidió Teilifís Éireann |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929155515/http://www.rte.ie/arts/2007/0612/theapprentice.html |archive-date=29 September 2007}} Hopkins later stated that the media were informed of her dismissal an hour after she was fired. After her appearance on The Apprentice, Hopkins signed two deals to sell her story, one with the News of the World newspaper and the other with EMAP, the company behind Heat and Grazia magazines.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk_news/story/0,,2097757,00.html|title=Apprentice star signs News of the World deal|access-date=15 June 2007|work=The Guardian|location=London|first=Leigh|last=Holmwood|date=7 June 2007|archive-date=21 February 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240221013832/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/jun/07/newsoftheworld.pressandpublishing|url-status=live}}

Hopkins said in an interview with BBC Radio Kent that she had great respect for Sugar and that she believed she would have won the programme had she been in the final episode. She also said that the media's attitudes towards her did not affect her but did affect her family.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/kent/realmedia/audio/kents_best/thursday.ram|title=Katie Hopkins BBC Radio Kent Interview |access-date=15 June 2007|publisher=BBC Radio Kent}} She made a similar claim of hypothetical victory in an interview with Fiona Phillips on the morning of the final Apprentice episode, although Sugar had said that if she had wanted to press on, he would have fired her, whoever she was competing with.{{cite episode|title=Katie Hopkins Interview|series=GMTV|station=ITV1|airdate=13 June 2007|season=14}} Hopkins told BBC Radio 1 that she had not yet ruled out a media career{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/player/nol/newsid_6740000/newsid_6746800?redirect=6746827.stm&news=1&bbram=1&bbwm=1&nbram=1&nbwm=1&prefs=1 |title=Radio 1 Newsbeat – Katie Hopkins Interview |access-date=15 June 2007 |publisher=BBC Radio 1}} but expressed interest in starting a business venture.{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/berkshire/content/articles/2007/06/13/katie_hopkins_apprentice_feature.shtml |title=What Katie did next... |access-date=14 June 2007 |publisher=BBC Berkshire |archive-date=23 September 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070923081258/http://www.bbc.co.uk/berkshire/content/articles/2007/06/13/katie_hopkins_apprentice_feature.shtml |url-status=live }}

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After The Apprentice, Hopkins appeared in an episode of 8 Out of 10 Cats, and was a guest star on Loose Women and The Friday Night Project.{{cite web |url=http://geo.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/F/fnp/episodes/s5_ep4.html|title=Show Four: Melanie C |access-date=7 August 2007|publisher=Channel 4}}{{dead link|date=November 2014}} In 2007, she presented a Five Live Report on family life and working mothers for BBC Radio 5 Live and contributed an article on the same subject to BBC Online.{{cite news |first=Katie |last=Hopkins |title=Gateway to the world feels just like a parish hall |url=http://www.thisisexeter.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=136993&command=displayContent&sourceNode=244961&contentPK=17892541&folderPk=113914&pNodeId=244962 |publisher=Express and Echo |page=1 |date=21 July 2007 |access-date=30 July 2007 }}{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

In 2007, Hopkins joined the series I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/money/2009/mar/21/the-apprentice-contestants|title=You're all fired|newspaper=The Guardian|first=Hazel|last=Davis|date=21 March 2009|access-date=16 January 2015|archive-date=8 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150208014004/http://www.theguardian.com/money/2009/mar/21/the-apprentice-contestants|url-status=live}} as a replacement for Malcolm McLaren, who dropped out just before the show started.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/organgrinder/2007/nov/14/watchwiththeprospectofsee|title=Watch with ... the prospect of seeing the famous eat grim things|first=Anna|last=Pickard|newspaper=The Guardian|date=14 November 2007|access-date=22 January 2016|archive-date=15 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160915132827/https://www.theguardian.com/media/organgrinder/2007/nov/14/watchwiththeprospectofsee|url-status=live}} In January 2015, she took part in the Channel 5 reality series Celebrity Big Brother, finishing in second place.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/30780350|title=Celebrity Big Brother gets 233 complaints about Ken Morley|work=BBC News|date=12 January 2015|access-date=16 January 2015|archive-date=15 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150115105915/http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/30780350|url-status=live}}

Hopkins has appeared twice on Question Time, in the programmes of 10 June 2010 and 27 January 2011. She also appeared on the Young Voters' version of Question Time on 20 October 2010.{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2010/10_october/20/voters.shtml |title=Press Office – Young Voters' Question Time panel announced |publisher=BBC |date=20 October 2010 |access-date=30 October 2010 |archive-date=19 December 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101219074458/http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2010/10_october/20/voters.shtml |url-status=live }} She appeared on an episode of 10 O'Clock Live on 24 April 2013, alongside Theo Paphitis and Owen Jones, to discuss the legacy of the former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, who had died that month, and to debate tax policies and the division of wealth among British citizens.{{cite web |url=http://www.channel4.com/programmes/10-oclock-live/episode-guide/series-3/episode-1 |title=Series 3, Episode 1, 10 O'Clock Live |publisher=Channel 4 |date=24 April 2013 |access-date=28 April 2013 |archive-date=23 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130423142450/http://www.channel4.com/programmes/10-oclock-live/episode-guide/series-3/episode-1 |url-status=live }}

In 2015, she deliberately gained and lost {{convert|3|st|lb kg}} over the course of several months, in an attempt to show that obese people can diet successfully. Her progress was documented by a camera crew and then played on a programme called My Fat Story for TLC.{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/11317274/Katie-Hopkins-what-fat-people-need-is-a-kick-up-the-a-.html|title=Hopkins: what fat people need is a kick up the a--|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=8 January 2015|first=Casilda|last=Grigg|access-date=15 January 2015|archive-date=12 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150112161102/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/11317274/Katie-Hopkins-what-fat-people-need-is-a-kick-up-the-a-.html|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/11316692/Katie-Hopkins-Im-still-the-biggest-bitch-in-Britain.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/11316692/Katie-Hopkins-Im-still-the-biggest-bitch-in-Britain.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Katie Hopkins: 'I'm still the biggest bitch in Britain'|first=Keely|last=Lockhart|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=6 February 2015|access-date=4 March 2015}}{{cbignore}} TLC claimed an audience figure of 10 million in the UK and US for the programme.{{cite news|last=Sweney|first=Mark|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/dec/18/katie-hopkins-tv-chat-show-axed|title=Katie Hopkins' TV chatshow axed|work=The Guardian|date=18 December 2015|access-date=18 December 2015|archive-date=18 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151218122841/http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/dec/18/katie-hopkins-tv-chat-show-axed|url-status=live}}

Later that year, she began her own chat show, If Katie Hopkins Ruled the World, on the digital channel TLC. She said she wanted to bring a new approach to chat and panel shows.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/aug/06/if-katie-hopkins-ruled-the-world-tv-show-daily-mail-liz-jones|title=Katie Hopkins' TV show: 'I'm not playing the part of a pantomime villain'|first=Tara|last=Conlan|newspaper=The Guardian|date=6 August 2015|access-date=6 August 2015|archive-date=24 August 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150824121651/http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/aug/06/if-katie-hopkins-ruled-the-world-tv-show-daily-mail-liz-jones|url-status=live}} The series was cancelled in December, after the first series, owing to low audience ratings.

From April 2016 to May 2017, Hopkins presented a Sunday morning talk show on LBC, a London-based national talk and phone-in radio station.{{cite news|last=Verdier|first=Hannah|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/apr/14/katie-hopkins-lbc-show-review-controversy-washed-down-with-offence|title=The Katie Hopkins LBC show review: controversy washed down with offence|work=The Guardian|date=14 April 2016|access-date=14 April 2016|archive-date=16 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160416114355/http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/apr/14/katie-hopkins-lbc-show-review-controversy-washed-down-with-offence|url-status=live}} She had previously worked as a guest presenter for the station.{{cite news|last=Rea |first=James |url=http://www.lbc.co.uk/katie-hopkins-and-andrew-castle-get-lbc-shows-128025 |title=Katie Hopkins And Andrew Castle Get LBC Shows |publisher=LBC |date=4 April 2016 |access-date=4 April 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160407040126/http://www.lbc.co.uk/katie-hopkins-and-andrew-castle-get-lbc-shows-128025 |archive-date=7 April 2016 }}{{cite news|last=Plunkett|first=John|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/apr/04/katie-hopkins-lbc-radio-show|title=Katie Hopkins to host LBC radio show|work=The Guardian|date=4 April 2016|access-date=4 April 2016|archive-date=4 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160404110817/http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/apr/04/katie-hopkins-lbc-radio-show|url-status=live}} "The snarling facade remained", wrote Fiona Sturges for The Independent in April 2015 after one such broadcast, "but even Hopkins knows when to tone down the panto villain act".{{cite news|last=Sturges|first=Fiona|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/reviews/katie-hopkins-lbc-review-yes-katie-was-crass-but-lbc-bosses-should-take-the-blame-10196591.html|title=spewed frothing bile, but radio bosses should take the blame|work=The Independent|date=22 April 2015|access-date=4 April 2016|archive-date=20 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160420035122/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/reviews/katie-hopkins-lbc-review-yes-katie-was-crass-but-lbc-bosses-should-take-the-blame-10196591.html|url-status=live}} LBC announced Hopkins's departure on 26 May 2017, 'effective immediately', following her comments on Twitter soon after the Manchester Arena bombing, in which Hopkins claimed "we need a final solution".{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/kate-hopkins-lbc-radio-sacked-fired-manchester-attack-final-solution-daily-mail-muslims-racism-a7756776.html#gallery|title=Katie Hopkins to leave LBC 'immediately' in wake of Manchester attack 'final solution' comments|date=26 May 2017|work=The Independent|access-date=26 May 2017|archive-date=26 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170526142916/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/kate-hopkins-lbc-radio-sacked-fired-manchester-attack-final-solution-daily-mail-muslims-racism-a7756776.html#gallery|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/may/23/manchester-attack-police-investigate-katie-hopkins-final-solution-tweet|title=Katie Hopkins reported to police after 'final solution' Manchester attack tweet|date=23 May 2017|work=The Guardian|access-date=26 May 2017|archive-date=27 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170527034122/https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/may/23/manchester-attack-police-investigate-katie-hopkins-final-solution-tweet|url-status=live}} Speaking about her departure a few days later on Fox News, she said a deal had been made with LBC not to speak about it, but suggested it was part of a "silencing" of people with right-wing views.{{cite news |first=Jonathan |last=Mitchell |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/katie-hopkins-claims-there-is-a-silencing-of-the-right-after-lbc-axing-a3551711.html |title=Katie Hopkins claims there is a 'silencing of the right' after LBC axing |newspaper=London Evening Standard |date=29 May 2017 |access-date=3 June 2017 |archive-date=1 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170601013328/http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/katie-hopkins-claims-there-is-a-silencing-of-the-right-after-lbc-axing-a3551711.html |url-status=live }}

At a Church and Media conference in October 2015, Hopkins said she was "pushing back the walls closing in on freedom of speech". Describing herself as "Jesus of the outspoken" during her speech, she said: "I have never apologised for anything I've said. I find it very disappointing when people apologise. You should have the positive moral attitude to stand by what you say".{{cite news|last=Sherwood|first=Harriet|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/oct/13/im-the-new-jesus-katie-hopkins-tells-church-conference|title=I'm the new Jesus, Katie Hopkins tells church conference|work=The Guardian|date=13 October 2015|access-date=4 May 2017|archive-date=30 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170130215036/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/oct/13/im-the-new-jesus-katie-hopkins-tells-church-conference|url-status=live}}{{cite news|last=Powell|first=Emma|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/katie-hopkins-says-she-is-the-new-jesus-and-refuses-to-apologise-for-controversial-comments-a3089916.html|title=Katie Hopkins says she is the 'new Jesus' – and refuses to apologise for controversial comments|work=London Evening Standard|date=13 October 2015|access-date=20 January 2016|archive-date=20 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160120163630/http://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/katie-hopkins-says-she-is-the-new-jesus-and-refuses-to-apologise-for-controversial-comments-a3089916.html|url-status=live}}

Since appearing on The Apprentice, Hopkins has frequently featured in the media for making controversial remarks, being described in The Guardian, HuffPost, and MTV as a "professional troll".{{Cite web|url=https://www.mtv.co.uk/news/u0wcee/stereo-kicks-burn-katie-hopkins-on-twitter|title=Stereo Kicks Burn Katie Hopkins On Twitter|website=www.mtv.co.uk|language=en|access-date=25 June 2019|archive-date=13 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190413191056/http://www.mtv.co.uk/stereo-kicks/news/stereo-kicks-burn-katie-hopkins-on-twitter|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/dec/19/friday-2-januarys-best-tv|title=Friday 2 January's best TV|date=19 December 2014|work=The Guardian|access-date=25 June 2019|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|archive-date=23 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923175150/https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/dec/19/friday-2-januarys-best-tv|url-status=live}}{{Cite news | url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/12/02/katie-hopkins-gets-slayed-twitter-x-factor-stereo-kicks-singer-tom-mann_n_6253542.html | title=Katie Hopkins Got Slayed On Twitter By A 21-Year-Old X Factor Star | first=Sara C. | last=Nelson | work=HuffPost | date=2 December 2014 | access-date=25 June 2019 | archive-date=26 February 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210226015627/https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/12/02/katie-hopkins-gets-slayed-twitter-x-factor-stereo-kicks-singer-tom-mann_n_6253542.html | url-status=live }} She has described herself as a "conduit for truth", declaring "what other people think but are too scared to say"'.{{Cite web|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/a-day-with-katie-hopkins-separating-the-apprentice-superbitch-from-her-soundbites-8706555.html|title=A day with Katie Hopkins: Separating the Apprentice 'superbitch' from|date=12 July 2013|website=The Independent|language=en|access-date=25 June 2019|archive-date=11 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190211091842/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/a-day-with-katie-hopkins-separating-the-apprentice-superbitch-from-her-soundbites-8706555.html|url-status=live}}

In 2019, Hopkins presented the documentary Homelands which was about Islam in Europe.{{cite web|title=Katie Hopkins to promote film on 'Jewish exodus from Islamism'|url=https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/katie-hopkins-promotes-documentary-screenings-london-israel-jewish-exodus-1.485159|website=www.thejc.com|access-date=27 June 2019|archive-date=27 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190627095506/https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/katie-hopkins-promotes-documentary-screenings-london-israel-jewish-exodus-1.485159|url-status=live}}

Early in her public career, Hopkins wrote a column for Exeter's Express & Echo newspaper, but her articles ceased after an online poll in October 2007 found 84 per cent of readers wanted the feature to end.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/7037846.stm|title=Apprentice Katie is 'fired' again|work=BBC News|date=10 October 2007|access-date=16 April 2016|archive-date=21 February 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240221013837/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/7037846.stm|url-status=live}}

At the end of October 2013, it emerged that Hopkins had joined The Sun as a weekly columnist,{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/oct/31/sun-katie-hopkins-daily-mail|title=Can the Sun's Katie Hopkins out-troll the Daily Mail?|date=31 October 2013|work=The Guardian|access-date=24 September 2015|archive-date=9 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180809154829/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/oct/31/sun-katie-hopkins-daily-mail|url-status=live}} with the newspaper promoting her as "Britain's most controversial columnist". In February 2015 Hopkins defended her remarks and those of her critics, commenting: "I welcome it because I've had my opinion and it's only right that people have theirs. I welcome the debate and the fact that people are getting involved."

In autumn 2015, she left The Sun for the Mail Online website, the online companion to the Daily Mail.{{cite news|last=Sweney|first=Mark|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/sep/24/katie-hopkins-leaves-the-sun-to-join-mail-online|title=Katie Hopkins leaves the Sun to join Mail Online|work=The Guardian|date=24 September 2015|access-date=24 September 2015|archive-date=25 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925044804/http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/sep/24/katie-hopkins-leaves-the-sun-to-join-mail-online|url-status=live}} The Daily Telegraph contributor Bryony Gordon wrote in April 2015 that media organisations have "a tipping point here, where the marketing men and women don't want to be associated with reality TV's very own Adolf Hitler. But so far that doesn't seem to have happened."{{cite news|last=Gordon|first=Bryony|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/11549372/Katie-Hopkins-is-a-monster-of-our-own-making.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/11549372/Katie-Hopkins-is-a-monster-of-our-own-making.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Katie Hopkins is a monster of our own making|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=London|date=20 April 2015|access-date=16 April 2016}}{{cbignore}} The Mail published a front-page article in June 2017 expressing its low opinion of the liberal The Guardian newspaper, which had attacked it for its coverage of the attack on the Finsbury Park mosque

and also referred to Hopkins. It "was a lie" to say Hopkins wrote for the Daily Mail, it asserted. "The Guardian and its writer know that Ms Hopkins has nothing to do with the Daily Mail, but works for Mail Online – a totally separate entity".{{cite news|last=Ponsford|first=Dominic|url=http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/mail-online-is-totally-separate-entity-to-daily-mail-paper-claims-over-katie-hopkins-column-confusion/|title='Fake news', 'fascist left', 'purveyors of hate' – Daily Mail declares all-out war on The Guardian|work=Press Gazette|date=22 June 2017|access-date=28 November 2017|archive-date=27 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171227123328/http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/mail-online-is-totally-separate-entity-to-daily-mail-paper-claims-over-katie-hopkins-column-confusion/|url-status=live}} The Daily Mail newspaper and Mail Online are part of the same group.{{cite news|last=Barnett|first=Steven|url=https://theconversation.com/daily-mail-vs-the-guardian-why-did-editor-paul-dacre-lose-his-rag-80034|title=Daily Mail vs The Guardian: why did editor Paul Dacre lose his rag?|work=The Conversation|date=23 June 2017|access-date=28 November 2017|archive-date=1 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201030819/https://theconversation.com/daily-mail-vs-the-guardian-why-did-editor-paul-dacre-lose-his-rag-80034|url-status=live}} Her last column for the Mail website was published on 5 October 2017.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/nov/27/katie-hopkins-mail-online-column-contract-ends|title=Katie Hopkins' Mail Online contract ends 'by mutual consent'|last=Ruddick|first=Graham|date=27 November 2017|work=The Guardian|access-date=27 December 2017|archive-date=27 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171227234332/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/nov/27/katie-hopkins-mail-online-column-contract-ends|url-status=live}} In a late November 2017 statement from her employers to the Press Gazette, it emerged that Hopkins's Mail contract had not been renewed "by mutual consent". A large number of Tweets from her Twitter account were deleted around the same time.{{cite news|url=http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/katie-hopkins-leaves-mail-online-by-mutual-consent-as-column-is-axed-after-two-years/|title=Katie Hopkins leaves Mail Online by 'mutual consent' as column is axed after two years|last=Mayhew|first=Freddy|date=27 November 2017|work=Press Gazette|access-date=27 November 2017|archive-date=27 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171127155459/http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/katie-hopkins-leaves-mail-online-by-mutual-consent-as-column-is-axed-after-two-years/|url-status=live}}

A few days before, a video was posted online of Hopkins's appearance at the David Horowitz Freedom Center in Florida earlier in November 2017. "It's such a pleasure to be amongst people that are prepared to fight for their country" she said, asserting it is "our time". She continued: "We can commit to arm ourselves, not just with the help of the NRA".{{cite news|last=Dearden|first=Lizzie|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/katie-hopkins-muslims-far-right-speech-mailonline-racism-islamophobia-david-horowitz-freedom-center-a8078356.html|title=Katie Hopkins gave speech attacking Muslims to far-right group days before leaving Mail Online 'by mutual consent'|work=The Independent|date=27 November 2017|access-date=27 November 2017|archive-date=28 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171128022638/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/katie-hopkins-muslims-far-right-speech-mailonline-racism-islamophobia-david-horowitz-freedom-center-a8078356.html|url-status=live}} In her opinion, there is a "Muslim mafia" in certain areas of Britain and "institutionalised discrimination against whites" in the UK as a whole.

In January 2018, Hopkins joined The Rebel Media, a Canadian far-right website which Tommy Robinson, founder of the far-right English Defence League has also contributed to.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/jan/03/katie-hopkins-joins-far-right-canadian-website-rebel-media|title=Katie Hopkins joins far-right Canadian website Rebel Media|last=Ruddick|first=Graham|date=3 January 2018|work=The Guardian|access-date=3 January 2018|archive-date=3 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180103215130/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/jan/03/katie-hopkins-joins-far-right-canadian-website-rebel-media|url-status=live}} In her first column on her own Hopkins World outlet, she wrote: "When so many platforms are under the control of the Saudis, tied to fickle commercial advertisers or beholden to special interests and religious lobbyists, it is a real thrill to find a place for us to speak without censorship". Hopkins no longer writes for Rebel Media and it appears that she was quietly dropped as a contributor around October 2018.{{cite web |last=Holt |first=Jared |url=http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/rebel-media-quietly-dropped-katie-hopkins/ |title=Rebel Media Quietly Dropped Katie Hopkins |work=Right Wing Watch |date=7 January 2019 |access-date=24 June 2019 |archive-date=26 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190626232545/http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/rebel-media-quietly-dropped-katie-hopkins/ |url-status=live }}

In June 2020, Hopkins was permanently suspended from social networking site Twitter for what a company spokesperson said were "violations of our hateful conduct policy"{{cite web|title=Katie Hopkins permanently suspended from Twitter|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53111295|access-date=19 June 2020|date=19 June 2020|work=BBC|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200619174313/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53111295|archive-date=19 June 2020}} – having previously been suspended for one week in January 2020.{{Cite web|last=Demianyk|first=Graeme|date=19 June 2020|title=Katie Hopkins Permanently Banned From Twitter, Social Media Firm Confirms|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/katie-hopkins-account-permanently-suspended_uk_5eece139c5b6e9623c8179bf|access-date=19 June 2020|website=Huffington Post|archive-date=13 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210613143456/https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/katie-hopkins-account-permanently-suspended_uk_5eece139c5b6e9623c8179bf|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=Katie Hopkins permanently banned by Twitter for breaking 'abuse and hate' rules|url=https://news.sky.com/story/katie-hopkins-permanently-suspended-by-twitter-for-breaking-abuse-and-hate-rules-12010577|access-date=19 June 2020|date=19 June 2020|work=The Independent|author=Robertson, Chris|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200619183338/https://news.sky.com/story/katie-hopkins-permanently-suspended-by-twitter-for-breaking-abuse-and-hate-rules-12010577|archive-date=19 June 2020}}{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jan/31/katie-hopkins-twitter-account-suspended|title=Katie Hopkins' Twitter account suspended|date=31 January 2020|work=The Guardian|access-date=1 February 2020|language=en-GB|archive-date=31 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200131172436/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jan/31/katie-hopkins-twitter-account-suspended|url-status=live}} Hopkins subsequently stated that she had joined the social networking site Parler as an alternative. After the announcement a fake account was accidentally verified as hers, and was then used to scam users.{{cite web|url=https://www.dailydot.com/debug/katie-hopkins-impersonated-parler/|title=After far-right pundit suspended from Twitter, impersonator raises money for BLM|work=The Daily Dot|first=Claire|last=Goforth|date=22 June 2020|access-date=18 January 2021|archive-date=23 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200623152103/https://www.dailydot.com/debug/katie-hopkins-impersonated-parler/|url-status=live}}

In 2020, Hopkins was the subject of a prank by Youtuber Josh Pieters. She flew to Prague to accept a fake award, the Campaign to Unify the Nation Trophy.{{cite news |title=Katie Hopkins 'tricked' into accepting fake award by YouTube prankster |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/katie-hopkins-youtube-josh-pieters-prank-fake-award-twitter-video-prague-a9310606.html |access-date=19 March 2023 |work=The Independent |date=1 February 2020 |language=en |archive-date=19 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230319102008/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/katie-hopkins-youtube-josh-pieters-prank-fake-award-twitter-video-prague-a9310606.html |url-status=live }}

On 5 November 2023, Hopkins' Twitter account was reinstated.

Since appearing on The Apprentice, Hopkins has frequently featured in the media for making controversial remarks, being described in The Guardian, HuffPost, and MTV as a "professional troll".{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/dec/19/friday-2-januarys-best-tv|title=Friday 2nd January's Best TV|date=19 December 2014|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=19 January 2015|archive-date=15 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150115163801/http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/dec/19/friday-2-januarys-best-tv|url-status=live}}{{cite news | url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/12/02/katie-hopkins-gets-slayed-twitter-x-factor-stereo-kicks-singer-tom-mann_n_6253542.html | title=Katie Hopkins Gets Slayed on Twitter By X Factor Stereo Kicks Singer Tom Mann | first=Sara C. | last=Nelson | work=HuffPost | date=2 December 2014 | access-date=25 June 2019 | archive-date=26 February 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210226015627/https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/12/02/katie-hopkins-gets-slayed-twitter-x-factor-stereo-kicks-singer-tom-mann_n_6253542.html | url-status=live }}{{cite news|url=https://www.mtv.co.uk/news/u0wcee/stereo-kicks-burn-katie-hopkins-on-twitter|title=Stereo Kicks Burn Katie Hopkins on Twitter|date=2 December 2014|access-date=19 January 2015|publisher=MTV|archive-date=2 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402145424/http://www.mtv.co.uk/stereo-kicks/news/stereo-kicks-burn-katie-hopkins-on-twitter|url-status=live}} She has described herself as a "conduit for truth", declaring "what other people think but are too scared to say"'.{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/a-day-with-katie-hopkins-separating-the-apprentice-superbitch-from-her-soundbites-8706555.html|title=A day with Katie Hopkins: Separating the Apprentice 'superbitch' from her soundbites|last=Usborne|first=Simon|date=12 July 2013|newspaper=The Independent|access-date=16 February 2014|archive-date=26 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140226220002/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/a-day-with-katie-hopkins-separating-the-apprentice-superbitch-from-her-soundbites-8706555.html|url-status=live}}

Hopkins is anti-Islam.{{cite web |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/06/05/anti-muslim-roundup-6518 |title=Anti-Muslim roundup: 6/5/18 |date=5 June 2018 |publisher=Southern Poverty Law Center |access-date=31 August 2018 |archive-date=31 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180831175106/https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/06/05/anti-muslim-roundup-6518 |url-status=live }}{{cite web|first=Brendan|last=Hughes|url=https://www.irishnews.com/news/northernirelandnews/2018/04/04/news/katie-hopkins-retweeted-by-ian-paisley-believes-united-ireland-is-inevitable--1295080/|title=Katie Hopkins, retweeted by Ian Paisley, believes united Ireland is 'inevitable'|date=4 April 2018|work=The Irish News|access-date=31 August 2018|archive-date=31 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180831175059/https://www.irishnews.com/news/northernirelandnews/2018/04/04/news/katie-hopkins-retweeted-by-ian-paisley-believes-united-ireland-is-inevitable--1295080/|url-status=live}}{{cite news|first=Paul|last=Wright|url=https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/uk-far-right-katie-hopkins-david-cameron-cited-report-growing-anti-muslim-violence-1542588|title=UK far-right: Katie Hopkins and David Cameron cited in report on growing anti-Muslim violence|date=8 February 2016|newspaper=International Business Times|access-date=31 August 2018|archive-date=31 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180831211709/https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/uk-far-right-katie-hopkins-david-cameron-cited-report-growing-anti-muslim-violence-1542588|url-status=live}} After the 2016 Nice truck attack, Hopkins stated "Islam disgusts me",{{cite news |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/katie-hopkins-causes-outrage-after-nice-attack-by-saying-islam-disgusts-me-a3297231.html |title=Katie Hopkins causes outrage after Nice attack by saying 'Islam disgusts me' |date=15 July 2016 |newspaper=London Evening Standard |access-date=31 August 2018 |archive-date=31 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180831180543/https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/katie-hopkins-causes-outrage-after-nice-attack-by-saying-islam-disgusts-me-a3297231.html |url-status=live }} declaring the statement was "entirely rational" and not Islamophobic.{{cite web|first=Katy|last=Brent-Stacy|url=https://uk.news.yahoo.com/katie-hopkins-has-made-everyone-angry-with-her-160026351.html|title=Katie Hopkins Has Made Everyone Angry With Her Comments About Islam|date=15 July 2016|work=Yahoo News|access-date=31 August 2018|archive-date=8 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308172119/https://uk.news.yahoo.com/katie-hopkins-has-made-everyone-angry-with-her-160026351.html|url-status=live}} She is in favour of a burqa ban and has labelled Islamic culture as homophobic.{{cite news | url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/07/04/katie-hopkins-ban-burqa-anti-islam-rant_n_5557180.html | title=Katie Hopkins Continues Anti-Islam Rant, Wants To 'Ban The Burqa' After Controversial 'ISIS Cake' Tweets | work=HuffPost | date=4 July 2014 | access-date=31 August 2018 | archive-date=31 August 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180831175054/https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/07/04/katie-hopkins-ban-burqa-anti-islam-rant_n_5557180.html | url-status=live }} In March 2017, Hopkins gave a speech at a David Horowitz Freedom Center event in which she criticised Muslims, stating that a "Muslim mafia" controlled areas of Britain, and describing London Mayor Sadiq Khan as the "Muslim mayor of Londonistan".{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/katie-hopkins-muslims-far-right-speech-mailonline-racism-islamophobia-david-horowitz-freedom-center-a8078356.html |title=Katie Hopkins gave speech attacking Muslims to far-right group days before leaving Mail Online 'by mutual consent' |date=27 November 2017 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=20 December 2017 |archive-date=19 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171219001524/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/katie-hopkins-muslims-far-right-speech-mailonline-racism-islamophobia-david-horowitz-freedom-center-a8078356.html |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/comment/2017/11/29/trumps-tweets-prove-its-open-season-on-muslims |title=It's open season on Muslims, and Trumps tweets prove it |date=29 November 2017 |work=The New Arab |access-date=31 August 2018 |archive-date=1 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180901044455/https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/comment/2017/11/29/trumps-tweets-prove-its-open-season-on-muslims |url-status=live }} Calling on people to "fight for your country" against Muslims, Hopkins stated that "we can commit to arm ourselves, not just with the help of the NRA," adding "get furious and fight back".{{cite web |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/03/26/anti-muslim-round-32618 |title=Anti-Muslim round-up: 3/26/18 |date=26 March 2018 |publisher=Southern Poverty Law Center |access-date=31 August 2018 |archive-date=31 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180831211806/https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/03/26/anti-muslim-round-32618 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |url=https://tribune.com.pk/story/1570054/3-british-columnist-gave-speech-attacking-muslims-days-leaving-mail-online/ |title=British columnist gave speech attacking Muslims days before leaving Mail Online |date=27 November 2017 |newspaper=The Express Tribune |access-date=31 August 2018 |archive-date=1 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180901044429/https://tribune.com.pk/story/1570054/3-british-columnist-gave-speech-attacking-muslims-days-leaving-mail-online/ |url-status=live }} Hopkins has also worked with the anti-Muslim Center for Security Policy,{{cite web|url=https://bridge.georgetown.edu/research/factsheet-katie-hopkins/|title=Factsheet: Katie Hopkins|date=7 August 2018|work=Bridge Initiative|publisher=Georgetown University|access-date=22 September 2023|archive-date=22 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230922035016/https://bridge.georgetown.edu/research/factsheet-katie-hopkins/|url-status=live}} and has been described as a counter-jihadist.{{cite journal|url=https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/files/192414854/Aked_Jones_Miller_Counterjihad_report_2019.pdf|last1=Aked|first1=H.|last2=Jones|first2=M.|last3=Miller|first3=D.|year=2019|title=Islamophobia in Europe: How governments are enabling the far-right 'counter-jihad' movement|journal=Public Interest Investigations|publisher=University of Bristol|page=67|access-date=22 September 2023|archive-date=18 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200318214454/https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/files/192414854/Aked_Jones_Miller_Counterjihad_report_2019.pdf|url-status=live}}{{cite report|url=https://www.mend.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Approaching-a-definition-of-Islamophobia-More-than-words.pdf|title=More than words: Approaching a definition of Islamophobia|editor-first=Isobel|editor-last=Ingham-Barrow|date=June 2018|work=MEND|page=56|access-date=22 September 2023|archive-date=28 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230328222715/https://www.mend.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Approaching-a-definition-of-Islamophobia-More-than-words.pdf|url-status=live}}

In 2015 Hopkins echoed Donald Trump's Islamophobic assertions that parts of London were so "radicalized" that even the police were afraid to go there, saying "it does nobody any favours to deny the obvious".{{cite news | last=Hopkins | first=Steven | url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/12/10/katie-hopkins-defends-donald-trumps-muslim-ban_n_8767842.html | title=Donald Trump: Katie Hopkins Backs US Presidential Candidate Saying She Doesn't 'Buy Divide' Between 'Peaceful And Extremist Muslims' | work=HuffPost | date=10 December 2015 | access-date=2 June 2020 | archive-date=8 March 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308032240/https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/12/10/katie-hopkins-defends-donald-trumps-muslim-ban_n_8767842.html | url-status=live }} When asked by BBC's Daily Politics presenter Andrew Neil in a December 2015 interview to name the "swathes" of Britain that are no-go areas for non-Muslims, Hopkins replied that she couldn't for "legal reasons". When Neil said there could be no legal problems with identifying an area she continued to refuse, saying only: "I know those places exist".{{cite news|last=Goodfellow|first=Mollie|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/katie-hopkins-no-go-areas-non-muslims-in-andrew-neil-bbc-daily-politics-interview-legally-accurate-a6769516.html|title=Katie Hopkins admits she cannot name 'no-go' areas for non-Muslims in Andrew Neil BBC Daily Politics interview|work=The Independent|date=11 December 2015|access-date=12 October 2017|archive-date=12 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171012150844/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/katie-hopkins-no-go-areas-non-muslims-in-andrew-neil-bbc-daily-politics-interview-legally-accurate-a6769516.html|url-status=live}}

Hopkins is against multiculturalism.{{cite web |url=http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/katie-hopkins-multiculturalism-means-that-we-all-die-together/ |title=Katie Hopkins: 'Multiculturalism Means That We All Die Together' |date=2 April 2018 |work=Right Wing Watch |access-date=31 August 2018 |archive-date=31 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180831174819/http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/katie-hopkins-multiculturalism-means-that-we-all-die-together/ |url-status=live }} Referencing a so-called "multicultural mafia",{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/12/katie-hopkins-appearance-on-late-late-show-draws-hundreds-of-com/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/12/katie-hopkins-appearance-on-late-late-show-draws-hundreds-of-com/ |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Katie Hopkins' appearance on Late Late Show draws hundreds of complaints |date=12 November 2016 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph}}{{cbignore}}{{cite news |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/rt%C3%A9-receives-1-300-complaints-over-katie-hopkins-interview-1.2864436 |title=RTÉ receives 1,300 complaints over Katie Hopkins interview |date=11 November 2016 |newspaper=The Irish Times |access-date=31 August 2018 |archive-date=31 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180831174721/https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/rt%C3%A9-receives-1-300-complaints-over-katie-hopkins-interview-1.2864436 |url-status=live }} she has said that increased crime is directly linked to it.{{cite web |url=https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/celebs-tv/katie-hopkins-attacks-hull-again-837217 |title=Katie Hopkins attacks Hull again – and people really aren't happy |date=28 November 2017 |work=Hull Daily Mail |access-date=31 August 2018 |archive-date=31 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180831174930/https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/celebs-tv/katie-hopkins-attacks-hull-again-837217 |url-status=live }} Criticising the Notting Hill Carnival in 2016, she said: "I don't buy multiculturalism at all", stating that a "London bubble" believed in it and "the liberal left wing press, the BBC, they love it! They can't get enough of it."{{cite web |url=https://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/katie-hopkins/katie-hopkins-rages-against-notting-hill-carnival/ |title=Katie Hopkins Rages Against Notting Hill Carnival |date=30 August 2016 |publisher=LBC |access-date=31 August 2018 |archive-date=31 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180831174838/https://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/katie-hopkins/katie-hopkins-rages-against-notting-hill-carnival/ |url-status=live }} Following the 2017 London Bridge attack, Hopkins criticised "Liberals in London", saying they "actually think multiculturalism means we all die together", and that they were "so desperately wedded to the multicultural illusion that [they] can only fight those who love the country the most, blame those who are most proud to be British."{{cite news |url=https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/heres-what-happened-after-exeters-359544 |title=Here's what happened after Exeter's Katie Hopkins criticised London after terror attack |date=24 March 2017 |work=Express & Echo |access-date=31 August 2018 |archive-date=31 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180831175151/https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/heres-what-happened-after-exeters-359544 |url-status=live }}

Hopkins has promoted the white genocide conspiracy theory.{{cite news |title=This far-right online campaign has found an ally in the Trump administration |url=https://www.mediamatters.org/people/katie-hopkins |work=Media Matters |date=16 July 2018 |access-date=24 July 2018 |archive-date=24 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180724131643/https://www.mediamatters.org/people/katie-hopkins |url-status=dead }}{{cite magazine|last=Meyer|first=David|date=23 August 2018|title=Trump Is Tweeting About White Farmers in South Africa. What to Know About the Deeply Racial Issue|url=http://fortune.com/2018/08/23/trump-white-farmers-south-africa/|magazine=Fortune|access-date=23 August 2018|archive-date=23 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180823133449/http://fortune.com/2018/08/23/trump-white-farmers-south-africa/|url-status=live}} She has contended that immigration and multiculturalism are intended to make white people minorities.{{cite magazine|last=Hemmadi|first=Murad|date=24 July 2018|title=The Rebel Media-branded retirement savings fund is not happening|url=https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/the-rebel-media-branded-retirement-savings-fund-is-not-happening/|magazine=Maclean's|access-date=25 July 2018|archive-date=25 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210725064943/https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/the-rebel-media-branded-retirement-savings-fund-is-not-happening/|url-status=live}} In February 2018, Yahoo News reported that "her intention was to 'expose' the white genocide" happening to farmers in South Africa.{{cite news|last=Williams|first=Mike P.|date=6 February 2018|title=Katie Hopkins allegedly detained at Johannesburg airport for 'spreading racial hatred'|url=https://uk.news.yahoo.com/katie-hopkins-allegedly-detained-johannesburg-airport-spreading-racial-hatred-143248388.html|work=Yahoo News|access-date=24 July 2018|archive-date=10 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211110011333/https://uk.news.yahoo.com/katie-hopkins-allegedly-detained-johannesburg-airport-spreading-racial-hatred-143248388.html|url-status=live}}{{cite news |last=Williams |first=Mike P. |date=7 February 2018 |title=Katie Hopkins has been allowed to leave South Africa after being 'detained' |url=https://uk.news.yahoo.com/katie-hopkins-allowed-leave-south-africa-detained-130143584.html |work=Yahoo News |access-date=24 July 2018 |archive-date=8 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308014928/https://uk.news.yahoo.com/katie-hopkins-allowed-leave-south-africa-detained-130143584.html |url-status=live }}{{cite news|last=Hyde|first=Marina|date=8 February 2018|title=A-hole in a K-hole: Katie Hopkins' ketamine adventures|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lostinshowbiz/2018/feb/08/a-hole-in-a-k-hole-katie-hopkins-ketamine-adventures|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=25 July 2018|archive-date=25 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180725153455/https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lostinshowbiz/2018/feb/08/a-hole-in-a-k-hole-katie-hopkins-ketamine-adventures|url-status=live}} She also visited South Africa to report on anti-white racism.{{cite magazine|last=Walsh|first=Joe|date=22 May 2018|title=No, Katie Hopkins, there is no white genocide in South Africa|url=https://www.newstatesman.com/world/africa/2018/05/no-katie-hopkins-there-no-white-genocide-south-africa|magazine=New Statesman|access-date=24 July 2018|archive-date=10 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210610044021/https://www.newstatesman.com/world/africa/2018/05/no-katie-hopkins-there-no-white-genocide-south-africa|url-status=live}}

On the television show Question Time, Hopkins said of feminism: "Women don't want equal treatment, they couldn't handle it if they got it. It's a tough world out there. What a lot of women are actually looking for is special treatment. What women need to realise is that they have to toughen up."{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/big-brother/11332631/Katie-Hopkins-most-offensive-quotes.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/big-brother/11332631/Katie-Hopkins-most-offensive-quotes.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Katie Hopkins: her most offensive quotes|last=Goldhill|first=Olivia|date=8 January 2015|access-date=11 June 2019|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235}}{{cbignore}}

Hopkins has expressed her views on tattoos on television shows including The Nolan Show and If Katie Hopkins Ruled the World. She has stated: "I really think if you have a tattoo you have to wonder about what kind of future you have ahead of you. As an employer, I wouldn't employ someone with tattoos as I would wonder what customers would think about them. For me, tattoos are just a way for people to find attention who haven't found another way in their life to achieve it by conventional means."

During an appearance on ITV's This Morning in July 2013, Hopkins said she would stop her children playing with their classmates based on their given names. She expressed a particular dislike for "lower class" names like Charmaine, Chantelle, and Chardonnay, which met with disapproval from co-host Holly Willoughby.{{cite news | last=Wallwork | first=Ellen | url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/09/30/holly-willoughby-baby-name-katie-hopkins-teases-they-clearly-had-sex-in-chester_n_7321976.html | title=Holly Willoughby Baby Name: Katie Hopkins Teases 'They Clearly Had Sex In Chester' | work=HuffPost | date=30 September 2014 | access-date=2 June 2020 | archive-date=8 March 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308040143/https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/09/30/holly-willoughby-baby-name-katie-hopkins-teases-they-clearly-had-sex-in-chester_n_7321976.html | url-status=live }} Hopkins said that she did not like "geographical location names" either. After Willoughby's colleague, Phillip Schofield, said that she had given the name India to one of her daughters, Hopkins said that India is "not related to a place".{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/katie-hopkins-branded-an-insufferable-snob-after-this-morning-debate-on-childrens-names-8690468.html|title=Katie Hopkins branded an 'insufferable snob' after This Morning debate on children's names|first=Matilda|last=Battersby|date=5 July 2013|access-date=9 July 2013|work=The Independent|archive-date=8 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130708233731/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/katie-hopkins-branded-an-insufferable-snob-after-this-morning-debate-on-childrens-names-8690468.html|url-status=live}} A viewers' poll conducted by the This Morning programme indicated that 91 per cent of respondents disagreed with Hopkins's opinion.

Appearing as a panellist on Channel 5's The Big Benefits Row: Live in February 2014, she was accused by Terry Christian and others of only expressing her controversial opinions to make money from media appearances.{{cite news | url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/02/04/katie-hopkins-annabel-giles-the-big-benefits-row-channel-5_n_4721468.html | title=Katie Hopkins Comes To Blows With Annabel Giles On 'The Big Benefits Row' | work=HuffPost | first=Ashley | last=Percival | date=4 February 2014 | access-date=2 June 2020 | archive-date=7 March 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210307234510/https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/02/04/katie-hopkins-annabel-giles-the-big-benefits-row-channel-5_n_4721468.html | url-status=live }} Hopkins has said that financial motives are not the reason she speaks out, and received a "relatively modest" fee of £300 when she was on This Morning speaking about children's names.

In a February 2014 interview with Decca Aitkenhead for The Guardian, Hopkins was asked if she is a snob: "Oh, definitely yeah, 100%. I think it's really important to be snobby".

Hopkins posted a tweet referring to Scottish life expectancy predictions based upon a 2011 NHS Scotland report, "Healthy Life Expectancy in Scotland: Update of trends to 2010". This tweet was posted following a heated debate on Scottish Independence during an edition of The Wright Stuff on which Hopkins was a panellist. In the wake of the 2013 Glasgow helicopter crash, the tweet was widely criticised by Twitter users. Hopkins said: "Following Independence I will only be the Biggest Bitch in England", and described people's reactions as "PC tastic".{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/dec/02/katie-hopkins-twitter-glasgow-helicopter-crash-apprentice|title=Katie Hopkins apologises for timing of tweet about Scottish life expectancy|newspaper=The Guardian|date=2 December 2013|access-date=4 March 2015|archive-date=6 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150406012810/http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/dec/02/katie-hopkins-twitter-glasgow-helicopter-crash-apprentice|url-status=live}} An online petition to ban Hopkins from shows such as ITV's This Morning and The Wright Stuff on Channel 5 gained over 75,000 signatures. Hopkins issued an apology the following Monday, restating that her original remark was in reference to the NHS report and was simply bad timing.{{cite news|last=Baird|first=Dugald|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/dec/03/katie-hopkins-petition-scotland-glasgow-twitter|title=Katie Hopkins petition passes 75,000 as she explains life expectancy tweet|newspaper=The Guardian|date=3 December 2013|access-date=4 March 2015|archive-date=6 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150406025657/http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/dec/03/katie-hopkins-petition-scotland-glasgow-twitter|url-status=live}} ITV said on 5 December 2013 that "We have no plans for Katie Hopkins to appear on This Morning at this present time".{{cite news|last=Blundy|first=Rachel|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/celebritynews/katie-hopkins-dropped-from-this-morning-after-thousands-sign-petition-in-wake-of-ill-timed-scotland-8983264.html|title=Katie Hopkins 'dropped' from This Morning after thousands sign petition in wake of ill-timed Scotland tweet|work=London Evening Standard|date=5 December 2013|access-date=16 April 2016|archive-date=17 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160417023500/http://www.standard.co.uk/news/celebritynews/katie-hopkins-dropped-from-this-morning-after-thousands-sign-petition-in-wake-of-ill-timed-scotland-8983264.html|url-status=live}}

On 31 December 2014, police announced they were investigating complaints they had received concerning Hopkins's tweets about Pauline Cafferkey, a Scottish aid worker who was diagnosed with Ebola after returning to the UK from Sierra Leone. Hopkins had tweeted: "Little sweaty jocks, sending us Ebola bombs in the form of sweaty Glaswegians just isn't cricket. Scottish NHS sucks."{{cite news| url = https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-30641705| title = Katie Hopkins' tweets on 'Ebola bombs' examined by police| date = 31 December 2014| access-date = 3 January 2015| work = BBC News| archive-date = 4 January 2015| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150104043015/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-30641705| url-status = live}} No evidence of criminality was found by the police.{{cite news|title=No charges over Katie Hopkins' tweets on 'sweaty jocks'|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-32945786|access-date=30 May 2015|date=30 May 2015|archive-date=2 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150602011113/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-32945786|url-status=live}} On 7 April 2015, Hopkins made a series of tweets suggesting that people with dementia are "bed blockers" who take up scarce hospital beds and implied they would be better off dead. Her comments were condemned by leading British Alzheimer's charities.{{Cite news|url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/11520748/Katie-Hopkins-slurs-on-dementia-patients-provoke-anger-from-charities.html|title = Katie Hopkins' slurs on dementia patients provoke anger from charities|last = Donnelly|first = Laura|date = 7 April 2015|work = The Daily Telegraph|access-date = 8 April 2015|archive-date = 8 April 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150408160427/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/11520748/Katie-Hopkins-slurs-on-dementia-patients-provoke-anger-from-charities.html|url-status = live}}

After five Londoners drowned at Camber Sands in August 2016, Hopkins tweeted a poll mocking the identities of the deceased.{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/katie-hopkins-twitter-camber-sands-death-poll-police-report-a7209081.html|title=Katie Hopkins reported to Twitter by police over Camber Sands deaths poll|work=The Independent|first=Olivia|last=Blair|date=25 August 2016|access-date=25 August 2016|archive-date=26 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160826210346/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/katie-hopkins-twitter-camber-sands-death-poll-police-report-a7209081.html|url-status=live}} Sussex Police reported the tweet to Twitter under the headings of "abusive or harmful" and "disrespectful or offensive". They decided while the tweet was distasteful it was not criminal. The tweet was deleted.

Hopkins has been accused of fat-shaming by some journalists. When appearing on ITV's This Morning, Hopkins expressed her views on obesity stating: "Would I employ you if you were obese? No I would not. You would give the wrong impression to the clients of my business. I need people to look energetic, professional and efficient. If you are obese, you look lazy", and "To call yourself 'plus size' is just a euphemism for being fat. Life is much easier when you're thinner. Big is not beautiful, of course a job comes down to how you look."

In 2014, Hopkins took part in a TLC two-part documentary, Katie Hopkins: Fat and Back, where she gained and lost nearly 50 pounds (22 kilograms) of weight.{{cite web |title=Why British TV Personality Katie Hopkins Gained and Lost Weight for TV |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/british-tv-personality-katie-hopkins-gained-lost-weight/story?id=28216895 |website=abcnews.go.com |publisher=ABC News |access-date=7 September 2020 |language=en |date=14 January 2015 |archive-date=12 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112032643/https://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/british-tv-personality-katie-hopkins-gained-lost-weight/story?id=28216895 |url-status=live }} Initially, she ridiculed an overweight woman for being 'a wreck of a human being'. When the TLC show aired in January 2015, Hopkins acknowledged that losing excess weight "actually turned out to be a real ordeal...now I know how hard it is to be fat and carry that weight around and I know no one wants to be fat by choice," she said.

Hopkins objected to Rochdale commemorating National Pakistan Day on 23 March 2015 and said that she based her objection on a Rochdale sex trafficking case involving nine predominantly Pakistani men.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/mar/29/katie-hopkins-reported-police-race-hate-rochdale-pakistani-sex-abuse|title=Katie Hopkins accused of race hate by linking Pakistani men with sex abuse|newspaper=The Guardian|date=29 March 2015|access-date=29 March 2015|archive-date=30 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150330120429/http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/mar/29/katie-hopkins-reported-police-race-hate-rochdale-pakistani-sex-abuse|url-status=live}} In a series of tweets, she posted images of the felons with the caption "are these your friends too?" On 29 March 2015, Hopkins was reported to the police by Labour MP Simon Danczuk for possible race hate crimes.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/32112029/katie-hopkins-reported-to-police-for-race-hate-by-politician|title=Katie Hopkins reported to police for race hate by politician|work=BBC News|date=30 March 2015|access-date=15 July 2015|archive-date=3 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150703161525/http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/32112029/katie-hopkins-reported-to-police-for-race-hate-by-politician|url-status=live}} In response, Hopkins said: "I asked fair questions and I think it's important that someone has the balls to speak out".{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/katie-hopkins-accuses-labour-mp-simon-danczuk-of-reporting-her-to-the-police-to-divert-attention-away-from-his-porn-habit-10148144.html|title=Katie Hopkins accuses Labour MP Simon Danczuk of reporting her to the police to divert attention away from his porn habit|first=Jenn|last=Selby|newspaper=The Independent|date=1 April 2015|access-date=8 April 2015|archive-date=4 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150404000500/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/katie-hopkins-accuses-labour-mp-simon-danczuk-of-reporting-her-to-the-police-to-divert-attention-away-from-his-porn-habit-10148144.html|url-status=live}}

On 17 April 2015, Hopkins wrote a column in The Sun comparing migrants to "cockroaches" and "feral humans" and said they were "spreading like the norovirus". She wrote that gunships should be used to stop migrants from crossing the Mediterranean.{{cite news|last=Plunkett|first=John|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/apr/20/katie-hopkins-sun-migrants-article-petition-nears-180000-mark|title=Katie Hopkins compares migrants to 'cockroaches' and suggests using gunships to stop them crossing the Mediterranean|work=The Guardian|date=20 April 2015|access-date=23 May 2017|archive-date=14 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170814022321/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/apr/20/katie-hopkins-sun-migrants-article-petition-nears-180000-mark|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=http://www.itv.com/news/2015-04-18/katie-hopkins-compares-migrants-to-cockroaches-and-suggests-using-gunships-to-stop-them-crossing-the-mediterranean/|title=Katie Hopkins compares migrants to 'cockroaches' and suggests using gunships to stop them crossing the Mediterranean|publisher=ITV News|date=18 April 2015|access-date=23 May 2017|archive-date=12 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150912192946/http://www.itv.com/news/2015-04-18/katie-hopkins-compares-migrants-to-cockroaches-and-suggests-using-gunships-to-stop-them-crossing-the-mediterranean/|url-status=live}}{{cite news|last=Gander|first=Kashmira|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/hateful-katie-hopkins-column-on-migrants-causes-twitter-backlash-as-russell-brand-wades-into-debate-10186342.html|title='Hateful' Katie Hopkins column on migrants causes Twitter backlash, as Russell Brand wades into debate|work=The Independent|date=17 April 2015|access-date=23 May 2017|archive-date=14 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171214073144/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/hateful-katie-hopkins-column-on-migrants-causes-twitter-backlash-as-russell-brand-wades-into-debate-10186342.html|url-status=live}} Her remarks were condemned by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Prince Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein.{{cite news|last=Stone|first=Jon|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/katie-hopkins-migrant-cockroaches-column-resembles-progenocide-propaganda-says-the-un-10201959.html|title=Katie Hopkins' migrant 'cockroaches' column resembles pro-genocide propaganda, says the UN|work=The Independent|date=24 April 2015|access-date=24 April 2015|archive-date=25 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150425111245/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/katie-hopkins-migrant-cockroaches-column-resembles-progenocide-propaganda-says-the-un-10201959.html|url-status=live}} In a statement released on 24 April 2015, he urged the UK to "curb incitement to hatred" by its "tabloid newspapers".{{cite news |title=UN Human rights chief condemns Katie Hopkins & UK media hate speech |url=https://filmindustry.network/un-human-rights-chief-condemns-katie-hopkins-uk-media-hate-speech/28954 |publisher=Film Industry Network |date=24 April 2015 |access-date=3 July 2019 |archive-date=21 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240221013922/https://filmindustry.network/un-human-rights-chief-condemns-katie-hopkins-uk-media-hate-speech/28954 |url-status=live }} He stated that Hopkins used "language very similar to that employed by Rwanda's Kangura newspaper and Radio Mille Collines during the run up to the 1994 genocide", and said that both media organisations were subsequently convicted by an international tribunal of incitement to genocide.

Hopkins's column also drew criticism on Twitter, including from Russell Brand, to whom Hopkins responded by accusing Brand's "champagne socialist humanity" of neglecting taxpayers. Simon Usborne, writing in The Independent, compared her use of the word "cockroach" to previous uses by the Nazis and just before the Rwandan genocide by its perpetrators.{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/katie-hopkins-when-is-enough-enough-10186490.html|title=Katie Hopkins has just written a piece so hateful that it might give Hitler pause – why was it published?|work=The Independent|last=Usborne|first=Simon|date=18 April 2015|access-date=2 September 2017|archive-date=5 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170905043504/http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/katie-hopkins-when-is-enough-enough-10186490.html|url-status=live}} He suspected that if any other contributor had written the piece, it would not have been published, and questioned her continued employment by the newspaper. Zoe Williams commented in The Guardian: "It is no joke when people start talking like this. We are not 'giving her what she wants' when we make manifest our disgust. It is not a free speech issue. I'm not saying gag her: I'm saying fight her".{{cite news|first=Zoe|last=Williams|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/19/katie-hopkins-migrants-vermin-darkest-history-drownings|title=Katie Hopkins calling migrants vermin recalls the darkest events of history|newspaper=The Guardian|date=19 April 2015|access-date=21 July 2018|archive-date=21 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180721043732/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/19/katie-hopkins-migrants-vermin-darkest-history-drownings|url-status=live}}

In 2015 a Change.org petition was initiated with the aim of getting The Sun to sack Hopkins. By 26 April, it had attracted over 310,000 signatures.{{cite news|title=The migrant petition that's not about Katie Hopkins|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-32395272|access-date=21 April 2015|work=BBC News|date=21 April 2015|archive-date=21 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150421193049/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-32395272|url-status=live}} In early September, The Sun retweeted an earlier comment from Hopkins expressing her disinterest in migrants. The tweet was pulled after the Prime Minister David Cameron publicly announced Britain would do more to help those seeking asylum in the UK.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/mediamonkeyblog/2015/sep/03/why-did-sun-delete-katie-hopkins-gunships-to-stop-migrants-tweet|title=Why did Sun delete Katie Hopkins 'Gunships to stop migrants' tweet?|newspaper=The Guardian|date=3 September 2015|access-date=4 September 2015|archive-date=5 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905080838/http://www.theguardian.com/media/mediamonkeyblog/2015/sep/03/why-did-sun-delete-katie-hopkins-gunships-to-stop-migrants-tweet|url-status=live}} A further Change.org petition for Hopkins to be replaced with 50,000 Syrian refugees gained more than 20,000 signatures in less than 48 hours in September 2015.{{cite web|url=http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/someone-set-up-a-petition-to-swap-katie-hopkins-with-50000-syrian-refugees--Z1qRC1eirl|title=Someone set up a petition to swap Katie Hopkins with 50,000 Syrian refugees|work=i100|access-date=6 September 2015|archive-date=7 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150907230616/http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/someone-set-up-a-petition-to-swap-katie-hopkins-with-50000-syrian-refugees--Z1qRC1eirl|url-status=dead}}{{cite news | url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/09/05/swap-katie-hopkins-for-50000-refugees-petition_n_8093854.html | title=Swap Katie Hopkins For 50,000 Refugees Petition Sees 20,000 Signatures in Just Over A Day | first=Jacqueline | last=Housden | work=HuffPost | date=5 September 2015 | access-date=2 June 2020 | archive-date=7 March 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210307224633/https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/09/05/swap-katie-hopkins-for-50000-refugees-petition_n_8093854.html | url-status=live }}{{cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/petition-launched-to-swap-katie-hopkins-for-50000-syrian-refugees-a2927656.html|title=Petition launched to swap Katie Hopkins for 50,000 Syrian refugees|author=Tom Marshall|date=5 September 2015|work=London Evening Standard|access-date=6 September 2015|archive-date=6 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906140606/http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/petition-launched-to-swap-katie-hopkins-for-50000-syrian-refugees-a2927656.html|url-status=live}}

In November 2015, Peter Herbert, chair of the Society of Black Lawyers, reported Hopkins and The Sun to Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner. Hopkins was questioned and not charged, and subsequently criticised the police for purportedly criminalising opinion, and stated that she would set up a Society of White Lawyers.{{cite news|last1=Saul|first1=Heather|title=Katie Hopkins tweets about 'setting up society for white lawyers' after Met Police decide against charging her over allegations of inciting racial hatred|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/katie-hopkins-tweets-about-setting-up-society-for-white-lawyers-after-met-police-decide-against-a6720436.html|access-date=5 November 2015|work=The Independent|date=4 November 2015|archive-date=7 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151107195443/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/katie-hopkins-tweets-about-setting-up-society-for-white-lawyers-after-met-police-decide-against-a6720436.html|url-status=live}} By December 2016, the original article had been removed from The Sun{{'}}s website.{{cite news|url=https://politicalscrapbook.net/2016/12/the-sun-deletes-katie-hopkins-article-calling-refugees-cockroaches-after-stop-funding-hate-campaign/|title=The Sun Deletes Katie Hopkins' Article Calling Refugees 'Cockroaches' After Stop Funding Hate Campaign|work=Political Scrapbook|date=14 December 2016|access-date=14 December 2016|archive-date=20 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220125743/https://politicalscrapbook.net/2016/12/the-sun-deletes-katie-hopkins-article-calling-refugees-cockroaches-after-stop-funding-hate-campaign/|url-status=dead}}

On 21 May 2014, Hopkins tweeted "Gypsies are not travellers. Travellers are people that commute to work or go on holiday. Gypsies are ferrel [sic] humans – we have no duty to them". Jenn Selby, a writer for The Independent, described her comment as "incredibly racist".{{cite news|last=Selby|first=Jenn|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/katie-hopkins-denies-being-a-racist-by-being-massively-racist-9410246.html|title=Katie Hopkins denies being a racist... by being massively racist|work=The Independent|date=21 May 2014|access-date=6 October 2016|archive-date=9 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170209071522/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/katie-hopkins-denies-being-a-racist-by-being-massively-racist-9410246.html|url-status=live}}

In 2015, Hopkins supported Donald Trump's Republican presidential nomination.{{cite news|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/media/2015/12/world-ends-donald-trump-discovers-respected-columnist-katie-hopkins-supports|title=World ends as Donald Trump discovers 'respected columnist' Katie Hopkins supports him|work=New Statesman|date=10 December 2015|access-date=11 November 2016|archive-date=3 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303143240/http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/media/2015/12/world-ends-donald-trump-discovers-respected-columnist-katie-hopkins-supports|url-status=live}} She told the BBC's This Week that she loved his "bombastic rhetoric, charisma and populist appeal".{{cite web | url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04by41n | title= Hopkins: Not ashamed to say I love Trump | work=BBC | date=13 October 2016 | access-date=18 June 2024}} Hopkins defended Trump when he expressed an Islamophobic view that parts of London were "so radicalised the police are afraid for their lives", an assertion strongly denied by London's mayor and police. Trump thanked Hopkins for her support and for her "powerful writing on the U.K.'s Muslim problems", calling her a "respected journalist".{{cite news|last=Blair|first=Olivia|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/donald-trump-thanks-respected-columnist-katie-hopkins-for-her-praising-article-a6767976.html|title=Donald Trump thanks 'respected columnist' Katie Hopkins|work=The Independent|date=10 December 2015|access-date=11 November 2015|archive-date=11 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151211030930/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/donald-trump-thanks-respected-columnist-katie-hopkins-for-her-praising-article-a6767976.html|url-status=live}}{{cite news|last=Hawkins|first=Derek|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/05/24/we-need-a-final-solution-british-columnist-tweets-then-deletes-after-manchester-bombing/|title='We need a final solution,' British columnist tweets – then deletes – after Manchester bombing|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=24 May 2017|access-date=24 May 2017|archive-date=25 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170525074830/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/05/24/we-need-a-final-solution-british-columnist-tweets-then-deletes-after-manchester-bombing/|url-status=live}}

In January 2017, a caller to her LBC programme named Joseph said she came over as racist, following which she said: "I genuinely believe 'racist' as a word has been used so much. I am sorry for the word racist in a way. I love language so much ... it's like a regular word now, it's lost all meaning to me". When tweeting the clip she added, "Call me racist. I don't care. I will stand up for white women being raped because you're scared to offend Muslims".{{cite news |last=Chandler |first=Mark |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/outrage-as-katie-hopkins-shares-neonazi-praise-after-racism-debate-a3430926.html |title=Outrage as Katie Hopkins shares neo-Nazi praise after 'racism' debate |work=London Evening Standard |date=2 January 2017 |access-date=23 May 2017 |archive-date=19 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170519174759/http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/outrage-as-katie-hopkins-shares-neonazi-praise-after-racism-debate-a3430926.html |url-status=live }} Hopkins tweeted shortly afterwards: "Racial profiling is a good thing, call me racist. I don't care... it has lost all meaning". She later briefly retweeted a favourable response from an account named Anti Juden SS, whose avatar featured the Swastika (and the United States flag), later stating that she had not looked at the handle.{{cite news | last=Demianyk | first=Graeme | url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/katie-hopkins-tweet-racist-neo-nazi_uk_586a91a3e4b0f24da6e93af7 | title=Katie Hopkins Shares 'Neo-Nazi' Praise After Claiming 'Racism Has Lost All Meaning' | work=HuffPost | date=3 January 2017 | access-date=2 June 2020 | archive-date=7 March 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210307222015/https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/katie-hopkins-tweet-racist-neo-nazi_uk_586a91a3e4b0f24da6e93af7 | url-status=live }} The ellipsis is in Hopkins' original tweet{{cite news |last=Gold |first=Tanya |url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/01/press-regulation-will-be-a-boon-to-anti-journalists-like-katie-hopkins/ |title=Press regulation will be a boon to anti-journalists like Katie Hopkins |work=The Spectator |location=London |date=7 January 2017 |access-date=23 May 2017 |archive-date=14 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170814051949/https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/01/press-regulation-will-be-a-boon-to-anti-journalists-like-katie-hopkins/ |url-status=live }}

Sharing a poster on Twitter for the Netflix series Dear White People at the beginning of May 2017, Hopkins added: "Dear black people. If your lives matter why do you stab and shoot each other so much". Although the tweet was deleted, users of the social media site circulated screenshots of what appeared to be a reference to the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States.{{cite news |last=Stolworthy |first=Jacob |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/katie-hopkins-dear-white-people-netflix-series-black-lives-matter-racist-tweet-a7713646.html |title=Katie Hopkins accused of racism after Dear White People tweet |work=The Independent |location=London |date=2 May 2017 |access-date=23 May 2017 |archive-date=17 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170517020018/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/katie-hopkins-dear-white-people-netflix-series-black-lives-matter-racist-tweet-a7713646.html |url-status=live }} In August 2016 she urged the London Mayor Sadiq Khan to use water cannon against Black Lives Matter protesters at Heathrow Airport, who had chained themselves to the tarmac of an approach road.{{cite news |last=Chandler |first=Mark |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/black-lives-matter-katie-hopkins-causes-outrage-after-calling-for-water-cannon-to-be-used-against-a3313331.html |title=Black Lives Matter: Katie Hopkins causes outrage after calling for water cannon to be used against Heathrow protesters |work=London Evening Standard |date=5 August 2016 |access-date=23 May 2017 |archive-date=17 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170317172336/http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/black-lives-matter-katie-hopkins-causes-outrage-after-calling-for-water-cannon-to-be-used-against-a3313331.html |url-status=live }}

In February 2018, Hopkins was detained and had her passport briefly confiscated in South Africa for allegedly spreading racial hatred.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/may/24/katie-hopkins-wins-complaint-against-mirror-for-ketamine-headline |title=Katie Hopkins wins complaint against Mirror for ketamine headline |first=Jim |last=Waterson |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London |date=24 May 2018 |access-date=21 July 2018 |archive-date=28 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180728235743/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/may/24/katie-hopkins-wins-complaint-against-mirror-for-ketamine-headline |url-status=live }}

On the morning following the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing at an Ariana Grande concert, Hopkins tweeted about the need for a "final solution", the Nazis' term for the Holocaust:{{cite news|last=Dearden|first=Lizzie|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/manchester-bombing-katie-hopkins-final-solution-muslims-arena-terror-attack-phillip-schofield-a7750656.html|title=Manchester bombing: Katie Hopkins reported to police after calling for 'final solution' following terror attack|work=The Independent|date=23 May 2017|access-date=23 May 2017|archive-date=23 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170523091528/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/manchester-bombing-katie-hopkins-final-solution-muslims-arena-terror-attack-phillip-schofield-a7750656.html|url-status=live}}

:22 dead - number rising. Schofield. Don't you even dare. Do not be part of the problem. We need a final solution. #Machester{{sic}}

The tweet was soon deleted and reworded as a "true solution". Hopkins said the original was a typographical error (she had also misspelled "Manchester").{{cite news | last=Nelson | first=Sara C. | url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/manchester-bombing-katie-hopkins-reported-to-police-for-calling-for-final-solution-following-attack_uk_5923ffaee4b094cdba573404 | title=Manchester Bombing: Katie Hopkins Twitter Row Sees Owen Jones Call For LBC Boycott | work=HuffPost | date=23 May 2017 | access-date=2 June 2020 | archive-date=8 March 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308053422/https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/manchester-bombing-katie-hopkins-reported-to-police-for-calling-for-final-solution-following-attack_uk_5923ffaee4b094cdba573404 | url-status=live }} The motive for the attack, and the background of the suicide bomber, was unknown at the time Hopkins made the comment.{{cite news|last=Mitchell|first=Jonathan|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/manchester-terror-attack-katie-hopkins-sparks-outcry-after-calling-for-final-solution-following-a3545941.html|title=Manchester terror attack: Katie Hopkins sparks outcry after calling for 'final solution' following bombing|work=Evening Standard|date=23 May 2017|access-date=23 May 2017|archive-date=23 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170523095247/http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/manchester-terror-attack-katie-hopkins-sparks-outcry-after-calling-for-final-solution-following-a3545941.html|url-status=live}}{{cite news|last=Muir|first=Hugh|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/23/manchester-rule-of-law-apply-everyone-hate-peddlers-katie-hopkins|title=The rule of law applies to everyone. Even Manchester hate peddlers like Katie Hopkins|work=The Guardian|date=23 May 2017|access-date=23 May 2017|archive-date=23 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170523163223/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/23/manchester-rule-of-law-apply-everyone-hate-peddlers-katie-hopkins|url-status=live}}

The journalist Nick Cohen was among those who responded on Twitter: "Even if Hopkins knows nothing of Nazism – which I doubt – her "final solution" can only mean ethnic cleansing". Others, such as Owen Jones, called for a boycott of the LBC radio station while they employ her. Interviewed later on Fox News by Tucker Carlson, she called for people to insist on deportations among other responses to terrorist acts. She said: "I used the word 'final solution' in a tweet, and I would not in any way want to use that term and the inference other people lay on that. What I meant was, we need a lasting solution, a resolution to this". The incident led to Hopkins leaving LBC.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-40057165|title=Katie Hopkins to leave LBC 'immediately'|date=26 May 2017|work=BBC News|access-date=21 June 2018|archive-date=4 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180604083125/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-40057165|url-status=live}}

Following the June 2017 London Bridge attack almost a fortnight later, Hopkins called for internment camps to be used for those suspected of being Muslim extremists on Fox News' Fox & Friends. The host Clayton Morris said, on behalf of the network staff, that everyone considered the "idea reprehensible".{{cite news|last=McDonald|first=Karl|url=http://www.scotsman.com/news/uk/fox-news-distances-itself-from-farage-and-hopkins-internment-demands-1-4466308?fff|title=Fox News distances itself from Farage and Hopkins internment demands|work=The Scotsman|agency=Inews|date=5 June 2017|access-date=5 June 2017|archive-date=14 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170814055434/http://www.scotsman.com/news/uk/fox-news-distances-itself-from-farage-and-hopkins-internment-demands-1-4466308?fff|url-status=live}}{{cite news | last=Fang | first=Marina | url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fox-news-london-attack_n_59343347e4b075bff0f475f8 | title=Fox News Host Disavows Internment Camps, After Panelists Suggest Rounding Up Muslims | work=HuffPost | date=4 June 2017 | access-date=2 June 2020 | archive-date=7 August 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807045821/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fox-news-london-attack_n_59343347e4b075bff0f475f8 | url-status=live }}{{cite news|last=Oppenheim|first=Maya|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/fox-news-katie-hopkins-internment-camp-london-attack-terror-stabbing-muslims-islam-a7775026.html|title=Fox News calls Katie Hopkins' internment camp remarks 'reprehensible'|work=The Independent|date=6 June 2017|access-date=6 June 2017|archive-date=6 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170606113954/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/fox-news-katie-hopkins-internment-camp-london-attack-terror-stabbing-muslims-islam-a7775026.html|url-status=live}}

In July 2017, Hopkins flew to Catania in Sicily to visit a ship known as the C-Star hired by the Defend Europe movement, which has the intention of hindering the work of "search and rescue" vessels in the Mediterranean used by charities such as Save the Children to save trafficked migrants and refugees.{{cite news|last=Oppenheimn|first=Maya|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/katie-hopkins-defend-europe-meeting-far-right-activists-c-star-ship-anti-immigrant-mediterranean-a7857911.html|title=Katie Hopkins branded 'PR machine for extremists' after meeting group aiming to hamper refugee rescues in Med|work=The Independent|date=24 July 2017|access-date=9 August 2017|archive-date=10 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170810004513/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/katie-hopkins-defend-europe-meeting-far-right-activists-c-star-ship-anti-immigrant-mediterranean-a7857911.html|url-status=live}} Defend Europe is supported by the American white-nationalist David Duke and the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer website.{{cite news|last=Mulhall|first=Joe|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/21/katie-hopkins-boat-far-right-activists-sicily-migrants|title=Why has Katie Hopkins set sail with a bunch of far-right activists?|work=The Guardian|date=21 July 2017|access-date=9 August 2017|archive-date=15 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170815105209/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/21/katie-hopkins-boat-far-right-activists-sicily-migrants|url-status=live}}

Hopkins tweeted: "Looking forward to meeting the crew of the C-Star in Catania tomorrow. Setting out to defend the Med. All this week @MailOnline". She tweeted, and then deleted, an image of herself with a Defend Europe activist also present in Sicily at the time, a man known as Peter Sweden, initially reported to be an active Holocaust denier.{{cite news | last=York | first=Chris | url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/katie-hopkins-holocaust-denier_uk_596e0e4ee4b010d77673cb92 | title=Katie Hopkins Deletes Tweet With Picture of Her Posing With Holocaust Denier | work=HuffPost | date=21 July 2017 | access-date=2 June 2020 | archive-date=19 February 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210219222247/https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/katie-hopkins-holocaust-denier_uk_596e0e4ee4b010d77673cb92 | url-status=live }} For the Peter Sweden connection, see also {{cite news|last=Finnsiö|first=Morgan|url=http://hopenothate.org.uk/2017/08/01/far-right-vlogger-defend-europe-supporter-peter-swedens-real-identity-revealed/|title=Far-Right Vlogger and Defend Europe Supporter Peter Sweden's Real Identity Revealed|work=Hope Not Hate|date=1 August 2017|access-date=9 August 2017|archive-date=9 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170809212810/http://hopenothate.org.uk/2017/08/01/far-right-vlogger-defend-europe-supporter-peter-swedens-real-identity-revealed/|url-status=live}}

An article headlined "Katie Hopkins on NGOs colluding with traffickers in Sicily" was briefly published on the MailOnline website in mid-July 2017. According to a report on HuffPost website, the article offered no evidence to match the title. Shortly after her article was deleted, Save the Children rejected Hopkins' claim that she had "spent time" with the crew of one of their ships. "Nor will she set sail with us on any of our rescue missions", they stated.{{cite news | last=York | first=Chris | url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/katie-hopkins_uk_596f4a08e4b00db3d0f46e11 | title=Katie Hopkins in Row With Save The Children As MailOnline Article Mysteriously Disappears | work=HuffPost | date=20 July 2017 | access-date=26 April 2020 | archive-date=21 February 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240221032645/https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/katie-hopkins_uk_596f4a08e4b00db3d0f46e11 | url-status=live }} The deleted MailOnline article was her only contribution to the planned series.{{cite news|last=Anglesey|first=Steve|url=http://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/brexfactor-katie-hopkins-words-of-hate-are-lost-at-sea-1-5125518|title=Brexfactor: Katie Hopkins' words of hate are lost at sea|work=The New European|date=28 July 2017|access-date=9 August 2017|archive-date=9 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170809214800/http://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/brexfactor-katie-hopkins-words-of-hate-are-lost-at-sea-1-5125518|url-status=dead}}

Hopkins' opinions on Mediterranean migrants resurfaced in 2018 after the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting. Hopkins suggested that Chief Rabbi of the UK's "support for mass migration across the Med" explained the shooting. She later deleted the tweet.{{cite news |date=30 October 2018 |title=Katie Hopkins links Pittsburgh massacre to Chief Rabbi's support for refugees |url=https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/katie-hopkins-links-pittsburgh-massacre-to-chief-rabbis-support-for-refugees/ |newspaper=Jewish News |location=London |access-date=20 July 2019 |archive-date=21 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190721023831/https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/katie-hopkins-links-pittsburgh-massacre-to-chief-rabbis-support-for-refugees/ |url-status=live }}

Ankita Kulkarni of Logically commented that Hopkins "has often negated the effects of climate change or resorted to fearmongering regarding measures aimed to reduce carbon emissions".{{Cite web |last=Kulkarni |first=Ankita |date=February 20, 2024 |title=What is the 'new climate denial' and how does it impact our response to climate change? |url=https://www.logicallyfacts.com/en/analysis/what-is-the-new-climate-denial-and-how-does-it-impact-our-response-to-climate-change |access-date=2024-02-20 |website=Logically |language=en |quote=Logically Facts found that far-right political commentators like Katie Hopkins and popular channels like 'PragerU', which promote "educational content," were also following the trend. |archive-date=21 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240221013844/https://www.logicallyfacts.com/en/analysis/what-is-the-new-climate-denial-and-how-does-it-impact-our-response-to-climate-change |url-status=live }}

{{See also|Monroe v Hopkins}}

Cookery writer and anti-poverty campaigner Jack Monroe threatened a libel action against Katie Hopkins after Hopkins accused Monroe of vandalising a war memorial, having confused Monroe with journalist Laurie Penny, who had written in support of that vandalism.{{cite news | last=Nelson | first=Sara C. | url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/06/02/jack-monroes-lawyer-says-katie-hopkins-friday-apologise_n_7492886.html | title=Jack Monroe's Lawyer Says Katie Hopkins Has Until Friday To Apologise | work=HuffPost | date=2 June 2015 | access-date=2 June 2020 | archive-date=7 March 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210307232424/https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/06/02/jack-monroes-lawyer-says-katie-hopkins-friday-apologise_n_7492886.html | url-status=live }} Monroe called for an apology and a £5,000 donation to a migrants rescue charity.{{Cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/katie-hopkins-and-jack-monroe-embroiled-in-twitter-row-as-the-cook-threatens-to-sue-the-columnist-10260002.html |title=Katie Hopkins and Jack Monroe embroiled in Twitter row as the cook threatens to sue the columnist |last=Nianias |first=Helen |work=The Independent |access-date=6 September 2015 |archive-date=23 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923090144/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/katie-hopkins-and-jack-monroe-embroiled-in-twitter-row-as-the-cook-threatens-to-sue-the-columnist-10260002.html |url-status=live }}{{cite web|url=http://www.closeronline.co.uk/2015/06/public-apology-and-5k-to-migrant-rescue-or-else-jack-monroe-to-take-katie-hopkins-down|title="Public apology and £5K to migrant rescue – or else!": Jack Monroe to take Katie Hopkins down?|author=Kayleigh Dray|work=Closer|year=2015|access-date=5 June 2015|archive-date=22 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150622032945/http://www.closeronline.co.uk/2015/06/public-apology-and-5k-to-migrant-rescue-or-else-jack-monroe-to-take-katie-hopkins-down|url-status=live}} Hopkins later admitted that she was mistaken about the identity but did not apologise.{{cite news|url=http://www.scotsman.com/news/ashley-davies-sorry-seems-to-be-the-hardest-word-1-3791980|title=Sorry seems to be the hardest word|first=Ashley|last=Davies|newspaper=The Scotsman|date=3 June 2015|access-date=4 June 2015|archive-date=4 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150604144738/http://www.scotsman.com/news/ashley-davies-sorry-seems-to-be-the-hardest-word-1-3791980|url-status=live}} Monroe began legal action in January 2016,{{cite news|last=Martinson|first=Jane|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jan/18/katie-hopkins-jack-monroe-mail-online|title=Katie Hopkins sued by Jack Monroe over vandalism accusation|work=The Guardian|date=18 January 2016|access-date=18 January 2016|archive-date=18 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160118145638/http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jan/18/katie-hopkins-jack-monroe-mail-online|url-status=live}}{{cite news | url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2016/01/18/katie-hopkins-sued-by-jack-monroe_n_9008620.html | title=Jack Monroe Sues Katie Hopkins Over War Memorial Vandalism Twitter Mixup | first=George | last=Bowden | work=HuffPost | date=19 January 2016 | access-date=2 June 2020 | archive-date=8 March 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308033704/https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2016/01/18/katie-hopkins-sued-by-jack-monroe_n_9008620.html | url-status=live }} and was awarded £24,000 in damages and £107,000 in legal costs in March 2017.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39234079|title=Jack Monroe wins Katie Hopkins libel tweet case|work=BBC News|date=10 March 2017|access-date=10 March 2017|archive-date=10 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170310145858/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39234079|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/mar/10/jack-monroe-wins-twitter-libel-case-against-katie-hopkins|title=Jack Monroe wins Twitter libel case against Katie Hopkins|first=Maev|last=Kennedy|date=10 March 2017|work=The Guardian|access-date=26 May 2017|archive-date=10 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170310142200/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/mar/10/jack-monroe-wins-twitter-libel-case-against-katie-hopkins|url-status=live}} After the decision became known, Hopkins tweeted an image of herself as the Virgin Mary and commented that she saw herself as "the Jesus of the outspoken".{{cite news | last=Nelson | first=Sara C. | url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/jack-monroe-feels-nothing-but-compassion-and-sympathy-for-katie-hopkins-after-court-victory_uk_58c7ccf4e4b081a56def3678 | title=Jack Monroe Feels Nothing But 'Compassion And Sympathy' For Katie Hopkins After Court Victory | work=HuffPost | date=14 March 2017 | access-date=2 June 2020 | archive-date=8 March 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308022103/https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/jack-monroe-feels-nothing-but-compassion-and-sympathy-for-katie-hopkins-after-court-victory_uk_58c7ccf4e4b081a56def3678 | url-status=live }} An appeal application was refused in January 2018 as it was considered unlikely to succeed.{{cite news|last=Oppenheim|first=Maya|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/katie-hopkins-libel-case-appeal-lose-jack-monroe-food-blogger-daily-mail-sun-a8155661.html|title=Katie Hopkins appeal refused after losing libel case to food writer Jack Monroe|work=The Independent|date=12 January 2018|access-date=21 January 2018|archive-date=22 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180122072016/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/katie-hopkins-libel-case-appeal-lose-jack-monroe-food-blogger-daily-mail-sun-a8155661.html|url-status=live}} Hopkins sold her family home to pay the legal costs.

Mohammad Tariq Mahmood, his brother and their children were stopped from boarding a Norwegian Air flight from Gatwick to Los Angeles on 15 December 2015. At the airport, the family from Walthamstow found their entry visas to the United States had been cancelled.{{cite news|last=Dearden|first=Lizzie|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/katie-hopkins-congratulates-homeland-security-staff-who-stopped-british-muslim-familys-holiday-to-a6785076.html|title=Katie Hopkins congratulates Homeland Security staff who stopped British Muslim family's Disneyland holiday|work=The Independent|date=24 December 2015|access-date=19 December 2016|archive-date=10 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170310113552/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/katie-hopkins-congratulates-homeland-security-staff-who-stopped-british-muslim-familys-holiday-to-a6785076.html|url-status=live}}

In December 2016, the Daily Mail and General Trust settled a libel case brought by the Mahmood family with £150,000 damages, plus legal costs, over two articles by Hopkins posted on the MailOnline website which claimed members of the Muslim family were extremists.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38367563|title=Katie Hopkins apologises to family over al-Qaeda claims|work=BBC News|date=19 December 2016|access-date=19 December 2016|archive-date=19 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161219153037/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38367563|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=http://www.itv.com/news/2016-12-19/mailonline-forced-to-pay-out-150k-over-libellous-katie-hopkins-column/|title=MailOnline forced to pay out £150k over libellous Katie Hopkins column|publisher=ITV News|date=19 December 2016|access-date=19 December 2016|archive-date=19 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161219204510/http://www.itv.com/news/2016-12-19/mailonline-forced-to-pay-out-150k-over-libellous-katie-hopkins-column/|url-status=live}} The columns published at the time of the incident falsely claimed that officials were right to stop the family flying to Los Angeles to visit Disneyland because the two men were connected to al-Qaida, and that their stated plans were a "lie".{{cite news|last=Jackson|first=Jasper|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/19/mail-pays-out-150k-to-muslim-family-over-katie-hopkins-column|title=Mail pays out £150k to Muslim family over Katie Hopkins column|work=The Guardian|date=19 December 2016|access-date=19 December 2016|archive-date=25 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220125080135/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/19/mail-pays-out-150k-to-muslim-family-over-katie-hopkins-column|url-status=live}} In the settlement, the assertions from the Mahmood family were accepted as true by the Mail and Hopkins; the family had arranged to stay with another brother living in California, The family's MP, Stella Creasy, complained to the prime minister David Cameron at the time about the family's treatment. Hopkins said Creasy was a "whinging...blond-bobbed maniac".

In a statement from the family's solicitors, Carter-Ruck, they said: "matters are not helped when sensationalist and, frankly, Islamophobic articles such as this are published, and which caused us all a great deal of distress and anxiety. We are very pleased that the record has been set straight".{{cite news|last=Blair|first=Olivia|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/katie-hopkins-twitter-apology-muslim-family-extremism-links-mail-online-column-a7484436.html|title=Katie Hopkins tweets apology to Muslim family she linked to extremists – at 2 am|work=The Independent|date=19 December 2016|access-date=9 December 2016|archive-date=19 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161219195732/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/katie-hopkins-twitter-apology-muslim-family-extremism-links-mail-online-column-a7484436.html|url-status=live}} The two articles by Hopkins about the Mahmood family have been removed from the MailOnline website.{{cite news | last=Bowden | first=George | url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/katie-hopkins-apologises_uk_5857b020e4b0e9baa877e873 | title=Katie Hopkins Issues Extraordinary Apology To Muslim Family After Mail Online Columns | work=HuffPost | date=19 December 2016 | access-date=2 June 2020 | archive-date=6 March 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210306031320/https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/katie-hopkins-apologises_uk_5857b020e4b0e9baa877e873 | url-status=live }}{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/19/mail-pays-out-150k-to-muslim-family-over-katie-hopkins-column|title=Mail pays out £150,000 to Muslim family over Katie Hopkins column|first=Jasper|last=Jackson|date=19 December 2016|work=The Guardian|access-date=26 May 2017|archive-date=25 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220125080135/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/19/mail-pays-out-150k-to-muslim-family-over-katie-hopkins-column|url-status=live}}

In November 2017, Hopkins' former employers Mail Online apologised and paid "substantial damages" to teacher Jackie Teale, after Hopkins falsely accused Teale of taking her class to a Donald Trump protest in Westminster.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/nov/28/mail-online-damages-teacher-katie-hopkins-column|title=Mail Online to pay damages to teacher over Katie Hopkins column|last=Ruddick|first=Graham|date=28 November 2017|work=The Guardian|access-date=28 November 2017|archive-date=28 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171128204017/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/nov/28/mail-online-damages-teacher-katie-hopkins-column|url-status=live}}

In May 2018, Hopkins won an IPSO case against the Daily Mirror for claiming that she had been detained in South Africa in February 2018 for taking ketamine.{{cite news|last=Embury-Dennis|first=Tom|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/katie-hopkins-daily-mirror-south-africa-headline-drug-racism-ipso-complaint-a8367581.html|title=Katie Hopkins wins IPSO case against Daily Mirror for claiming she was detained for drugs rather than 'spreading racial hatred'|work=The Independent|date=25 May 2018|access-date=25 May 2018|archive-date=25 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180525021236/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/katie-hopkins-daily-mirror-south-africa-headline-drug-racism-ipso-complaint-a8367581.html|url-status=live}} The Mirror updated the headline to say that she had been detained for spreading racial hatred, and included a correction in the article.{{cite news|last=Saunders|first=Emmeline|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/katie-hopkins-detained-south-africa-11977548|title=Katie Hopkins DETAINED in South Africa for 'spreading racial hatred' after taking ketamine while collapsed in the street|work=The Mirror|date=6 February 2018|access-date=25 May 2018|archive-date=24 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180524165540/https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/katie-hopkins-detained-south-africa-11977548|url-status=live}}

In October 2020, Hopkins issued an apology after she was sued by Finsbury Park Mosque for inaccurately linking it to a violent incident in May 2020.{{Cite news|date=5 October 2020|title=Katie Hopkins forced to apologise for wrongly linking mosque to attack on police|url=http://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/oct/05/katie-hopkins-forced-to-apologise-for-wrongly-linking-mosque-to-attack-on-police|access-date=5 October 2020|work=The Guardian|archive-date=2 August 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230802235906/http://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/oct/05/katie-hopkins-forced-to-apologise-for-wrongly-linking-mosque-to-attack-on-police|url-status=live}}

Hopkins was selected as a cast member of the Australian Big Brother VIP series in 2021. She was sacked on 18 July 2021 while in hotel quarantine in Sydney after posting on social media that she had deliberately breached COVID-19 health regulations. At the time of her sacking the Australian Government was investigating whether she had violated the conditions of her visa, and both senior ministers and the federal opposition were calling for her to be deported. The opposition was also critical of the government's decision to grant Hopkins a visa.{{cite news |last1=Meade |first1=Amanda |last2=Martin |first2=Sarah |title=Far-right commentator Katie Hopkins dumped by Seven after Sydney hotel quarantine claims |url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jul/18/far-right-commentator-katie-hopkins-to-be-dumped-by-channel-seven-after-sydney-hotel-quarantine-claims |access-date=18 July 2021 |work=The Guardian |date=18 July 2021 |language=en |archive-date=18 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210718040935/https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jul/18/far-right-commentator-katie-hopkins-to-be-dumped-by-channel-seven-after-sydney-hotel-quarantine-claims |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Evans |first1=Jake |last2=Macmillan |first2=Jade |title=Far-right British commentator Katie Hopkins to be deported after boasting about undermining COVID-19 quarantine |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-19/katie-hopkins-visa-cancelled-deported-channel-seven/100303648 |access-date=19 July 2021 |work=ABC News |date=19 July 2021 |language=en-AU |archive-date=18 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210718233650/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-19/katie-hopkins-visa-cancelled-deported-channel-seven/100303648 |url-status=live }} On 19 July, Hopkins was fined $A1,000 for not wearing a mask while in hotel quarantine. Her visa was also cancelled during the day, and she was deported from the country.{{cite news |last1=Karp |first1=Paul |title=Katie Hopkins fined by NSW police and deported from Australia after visa cancelled |url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jul/19/katie-hopkins-deported-australia-visa-cancelled-video-big-brother-vip-channel-7-seven-network |access-date=19 July 2021 |work=The Guardian |date=19 July 2021 |language=en |archive-date=19 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210719000919/https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jul/19/katie-hopkins-deported-australia-visa-cancelled-video-big-brother-vip-channel-7-seven-network |url-status=live }}

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In the 2009 European Parliament Election, Hopkins stood as an independent candidate for the South West England Constituency. She polled 8,971 votes or 0.6% of the total votes cast.{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/bsp/hi/elections/euro/09/html/ukregion_36.stm |title=European Election 2009 | South West |work=BBC News |date=8 June 2009 |access-date=26 January 2015 |archive-date=18 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141018133333/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/bsp/hi/elections/euro/09/html/ukregion_36.stm |url-status=live }}{{cite news|title=Apprentice villain Katie Hopkins standing for Euro election|url=http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk/Apprentice-villain-Katie-Hopkins-standing-Euro-election/story-12300046-detail/story.html|access-date=21 April 2015|work=Western Daily Press|date=11 May 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141111180920/http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk/Apprentice-villain-Katie-Hopkins-standing-Euro-election/story-12300046-detail/story.html|archive-date=11 November 2014}}

In September 2015, Hopkins spoke at an event organised by the Electoral Reform Society at the UK Independence Party (UKIP)'s annual conference. After derogatory comments about the appointment of Michelle Mone to the House of Lords, she said: "Frankly, I don't really mind if we seal up the room and gas the lot of them".{{cite news|last=Jackson|first=Jasper|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/sep/25/katie-hopkins-wouldnt-mind-if-house-of-lords-was-sealed-up-and-gassed|title=Katie Hopkins 'wouldn't mind' if House of Lords was sealed up and gassed|work=The Guardian|date=25 September 2015|access-date=25 September 2015|archive-date=25 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925204327/http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/sep/25/katie-hopkins-wouldnt-mind-if-house-of-lords-was-sealed-up-and-gassed|url-status=live}}

UKIP said in 2015 that Hopkins was not a party member and, although she has reportedly applied to join on several occasions, her applications had always been rejected.{{cite news|last=Payne|first=Sebastian|url=http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2015/09/watch-ukip-supporter-katie-hopkins-advocates-gassing-the-house-of-lords/|title=Watch: Ukip supporter Katie Hopkins advocates gassing the House of Lords|work=The Spectator (Coffee House blog)|date=25 September 2015|access-date=25 September 2015|archive-date=25 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925223550/http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2015/09/watch-ukip-supporter-katie-hopkins-advocates-gassing-the-house-of-lords/|url-status=dead}}

In November 2015, students at Brunel University turned their backs on her, then walked out in protest at her presence in a debate.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/mediamonkeyblog/2015/nov/26/katie-hopkins-brunel-university-students-turn-backs-video|title=The moment students turned their backs on Katie Hopkins' hate speech|date=26 November 2015|work=The Guardian|access-date=26 November 2015|archive-date=26 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151126174400/http://www.theguardian.com/media/mediamonkeyblog/2015/nov/26/katie-hopkins-brunel-university-students-turn-backs-video|url-status=live}}

In January 2021, Hopkins successfully joined UKIP. Explaining her intentions to join the party, she said "People always ask me ... when am I going to do something smarter than just gob off on social media?"{{cite news|url=https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/brexit-news/westminster-news/katie-hopkins-joins-ukip-6904468|title=Katie Hopkins joins UKIP in time for leadership contest|newspaper=The New European|date=14 January 2021|access-date=19 January 2021|archive-date=19 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210119085850/https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/brexit-news/westminster-news/katie-hopkins-joins-ukip-6904468|url-status=dead}}

Hopkins' first husband was Damian McKinney, a former Royal Marine and founder and chief executive of the company McKinney Rogers; they married in September 2004 in Exeter. He was married to another woman when they first met; she has admitted to having "stolen" him. McKinney left Hopkins for another woman soon after the birth of the couple's second daughter.{{cite news|last=Sanghera|first=Sathnam|url=https://www.thetimes.com/travel/destinations/uk-travel/katie-hopkins-bigmouth-strikes-again-t2djlcfjkj7|title=Katie Hopkins – bigmouth strikes again|work=The Times magazine|date=20 June 2015|access-date=19 December 2016|archive-date=20 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160420120549/http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/magazine/article4471465.ece|url-status=live}}{{subscription required}} While working at the Met Office, she met Mark Cross, a married design manager. In 2010, her marriage to Cross was filmed as part of the reality game show Four Weddings, which is shown on the satellite and cable channel Sky Living.[http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-23802644-reality-tv-wedding-for-apprentice-maneater-katie-hopkins.do Reality TV wedding for Apprentice 'maneater' Katie Hopkins] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100605155338/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-23802644-reality-tv-wedding-for-apprentice-maneater-katie-hopkins.do |date=5 June 2010}}. London Evening Standard, 5 February 2010. Retrieved 15 August 2013

Hopkins formerly had epilepsy; she was being hospitalised around once every 10 days in early 2014, she told Decca Aitkenhead.{{cite news|last=Blair|first=Olivia|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/katie-hopkins-hospitalised-after-smashing-her-face-in-epilepsy-fit-a6742471.html|title=Katie Hopkins hospitalised after 'smashing her face' in epilepsy fit|work=The Independent|date=20 November 2015|access-date=20 November 2015|archive-date=21 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151121041912/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/katie-hopkins-hospitalised-after-smashing-her-face-in-epilepsy-fit-a6742471.html|url-status=live}} The seizures could occur up to 10 times at night, according to Sathnam Sanghera who interviewed her for The Times in mid-2015. They began in her late teens whenever she fell asleep and did not respond to prescribed drugs, she said in 2017.{{cite news|last=Thring|first=Oliver|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/katie-hopkins-i-want-to-save-britain-but-im-no-bob-geldof-mwbsmn78w|title=Katie Hopkins: I want to save Britain, but I'm no Bob Geldof|work=The Sunday Times|date=5 November 2017|access-date=5 November 2017|archive-date=5 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171105034013/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news-review/katie-hopkins-i-want-to-save-britain-but-im-no-bob-geldof-mwbsmn78w|url-status=live}}{{subscription required}} In a piece for The Sun, published the following August, she announced she was undergoing surgery to help prevent seizures.{{cite news|last=Dearden|first=Lizzie|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/katie-hopkins-reveals-fear-she-will-die-during-brain-surgery-to-cure-epilepsy-10432500.html|title=Katie Hopkins reveals fear she will die during brain surgery to cure epilepsy|work=The Independent|date=1 August 2015|access-date=2 August 2015|archive-date=3 August 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150803143001/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/katie-hopkins-reveals-fear-she-will-die-during-brain-surgery-to-cure-epilepsy-10432500.html|url-status=live}} In mid-November 2015, her condition led her to fall to the ground in the street injuring her face, and an ambulance was called.{{cite news|last=Powell|first=Emma|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/katie-hopkins-confirms-epilepsy-left-her-with-a-smashed-face-as-she-thanks-strangers-for-help-a3119366.html|title=Katie Hopkins confirms epilepsy left her with a 'smashed face' as she thanks strangers for help|work=London Evening Standard|date=20 November 2015|access-date=20 November 2015|archive-date=21 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151121070522/http://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/katie-hopkins-confirms-epilepsy-left-her-with-a-smashed-face-as-she-thanks-strangers-for-help-a3119366.html|url-status=live}} In February 2016, she underwent surgery in which a portion of her brain was removed to relieve the severity of the condition.{{cite news|title=Katie Hopkins undergoes brain surgery to treat epilepsy|url=http://www.itv.com/news/2016-02-22/katie-hopkins-undergoes-brain-surgery-to-treat-epilepsy/|access-date=24 February 2016|publisher=ITV|date=22 February 2016|archive-date=24 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160224102922/http://www.itv.com/news/2016-02-22/katie-hopkins-undergoes-brain-surgery-to-treat-epilepsy/|url-status=live}} Hopkins tweeted a month later that the operation was a success. "I am no longer an epileptic", she tweeted.{{cite news|last=Powelll|first=Emma|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/katie-hopkins-reveals-brain-surgery-was-a-success-i-am-no-longer-an-epileptic-a3211101.html|title=Katie Hopkins reveals brain surgery was a success: I am no longer an epileptic|work=London Evening Standard|date=24 March 2016|access-date=29 March 2016|archive-date=25 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160325192419/http://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/katie-hopkins-reveals-brain-surgery-was-a-success-i-am-no-longer-an-epileptic-a3211101.html|url-status=live}} According to Hopkins, the surgery had led to complications.

Hopkins sold her Exeter home in March 2018 for £930,000.{{cite news |last=Penberthy-Hutchins |first=Tina |url=https://www.devonlive.com/news/property/katie-hopkins-luxury-devon-home-1526502 |title=Katie Hopkin's luxury Devon home was one of the most expensive sold this year |work=Devon Live |date=2 May 2018 |access-date=2 May 2018 |archive-date=25 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180525205112/https://www.devonlive.com/news/property/katie-hopkins-luxury-devon-home-1526502 |url-status=live }} She applied for an individual voluntary arrangement in May 2018 to avoid bankruptcy, after the libel case brought by Jack Monroe.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/sep/16/katie-hopkins-applies-for-insolvency-to-avoid-bankruptcy-after-jack-monroe-twitter-costly-libel-case |title=Katie Hopkins applies for insolvency agreement to avoid bankruptcy |last=Waterson |first=Jim |work=The Guardian |date=16 September 2018 |access-date=16 September 2018 |archive-date=16 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180916160717/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/sep/16/katie-hopkins-applies-for-insolvency-to-avoid-bankruptcy-after-jack-monroe-twitter-costly-libel-case |url-status=live }}

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