Former GB News presenter Mark Dolan has firmly refuted Dan Wootton’s claims that he ‘threw him under the bus’ after shock sacking.
The broadcaster, 50, took to YouTube to set the record straight after he told his followers on X that GB News had ‘permanently relieved’ him of his ‘duties’ and that he had already presented his final show, three years after joining.
After the news broke his ex-colleague Wootton – who was axed from the channel last year after failing to oppose Laurence Fox’s controversial comments about female journalist Ava Evans – issued a takedown of his replacement presenter Dolan.
‘I’m not someone that likes to dance on someone else’s grave… but it’s only fair of me to present both sides of the picture.
‘And people are saying that this is what happens when you give in to management and you become their b***h and you are prepared to throw your colleagues under the bus,’ Wootton said on his Outspoken YouTube series.
In a ten-minute monologue on his new channel, The Mark Dolan Show, Mark issued his own response to Dan’s scathing comments.
‘I also want to thank Dan Wootton, one of Britain’s foremost journalists and the man responsible for getting me over to GB News in the first place. It’s therefore awful how things worked out.’
Before adding: ‘As a contracted employee I didn’t have much choice in the matter. The boss calls you up, asks you to present the show, you’re gonna do it.
‘Dan’s absence and ultimately his departure was of course not my decision and beyond my control,’ calling it a ‘huge loss’.
Specifically addressing Wootton’s most recent comments, he concluded: ‘Blaming me is like blaming the pedestrian watching a car crash unfold….
‘I was doing my job and, as always, I said what I thought at the time. Let me be clear, I am nobody’s b***h but if I am, well, then the b***h is back.’
The controversial media personality also threatened to ‘name and shame’ industry stooges and confirmed he was ‘fired’ from his GB News role elsewhere in the video.
‘There really isn’t a syllable of anything I said across literally hundreds of shows and thousands of hours of output that I would change. I stand by it all.’ he said.
He continued: ‘Because I’m not one of those broadcasters who licks their fingers, puts it in the air and decides which way the wind is blowing.
‘There are plenty of those around. Industry stooges, fakes and phonies and I’ll be naming and shaming in the months ahead.’
After announcing his new channel, The Mark Dolan Show, which will he described as ‘unshackled, uncensored, unapologetic and unlimited’ and ‘without the censorship of Ofcom, he praised his time at GB News as ‘only positive’.
He continued: ‘Let me tell you that leaving GB News was not my choice. I was fired. It took minutes. But they did it nicely.
‘The post about my departure has now been seen 2.6 million times on X which is quite something and it’s telling.’
He concluded by thanking GB News’ ‘bold and brilliant management’ and his production team for the ‘extraordinary amount of work they put into every programme.’
Dolan’s departure comes alongside his colleague Isabel Webster who co-hosted the Breakfast show with Eamonn Holmes. She will be replaced by Ellie Costello and Stephen Dixon.
Holmes had a short but sweet post, writing: ‘Bye my girl X.’
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