Katie Hopkins
Katie Olivia Hopkins (born 13 February 1975) is an English media personality, columnist, social critic, and former businesswoman. She was a contestant on the third series of The Apprentice in 2007, and following further appearances in the media, she became a columnist for British national newspapers. Hopkins began writing for The Sun in 2013 and the Daily Mail's website MailOnline from 2015 to 2017. In 2015, she hosted her own television chat show If Katie Hopkins Ruled the World and appeared in the fifteenth series of Celebrity Big Brother, in which she finished as the runner-up. The following year, Hopkins became a presenter for the talk radio station LBC.
Throughout her career, Hopkins' social media presence and outspoken views, specifically regarding UK politics, social class, obesity, migrants and race, have attracted controversy, criticism, media scrutiny, protests and petitions. She has been accused of racism by journalists, advocacy groups and politicians for her comments about migrants. In 2016, Mail Online was forced to pay £150,000 to a Muslim family whom Hopkins had falsely accused of extremist links. She has developed a reputation for having disputes with public figures on Twitter. In the 2017 libel case Monroe v Hopkins, Hopkins was required to pay £24,000 in damages and £107,000 in legal costs to Jack Monroe after making defamatory remarks on Twitter. Her role at LBC was terminated in May 2017 following her comments on Twitter about the Manchester Arena bombing. She is considered a far-right political commentator. Following posts mocking the Black Lives Matter movement, Hopkins was permanently suspended from Twitter in June 2020
Katie Hopkins was born on 13 February 1975, in Barnstaple, Devon. 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, attended a private convent school from age 3 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."
Hopkins told Sathnam Sanghera of The Times in June 2015 that she applied to study Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at Magdalen College, Oxford, but was rejected at the interview stage. Disappointed, and putting the failure down to an absence of "a bit of coaching", she instead studied economics at the University of Exeter. She felt that her time at university was "redeemed" by her sponsorship from the British Army's Intelligence Corps and spent her weekends with the Officers' Training Corps. This she found "really fun, lying around in forests with guns having a brilliant time".
She completed her military training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, but suffered 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. 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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