Big Question may not be the one GB News wanted

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TAKING a different tack on the

news is one thing, but having a guest claim Jeffrey Epstein was not a paedophile is quite another.

Lady Colin Campbell popped up on GB News to declare that the late, convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was not a paedophile but “an ephebophile”.

The new channel’s viewers who tuned in perhaps hoping for some non-traditional views may have got a shock as the guest outlined the supposed differences between words for paedophile, arguing they were all “medical terms”. Lady Colin, a royal biographer and socialite, was being interviewed by host Dan Wootton for his segment The Big Question. When Wootton said she must accept “he was a bad man, a dodgy character, not someone who Prince Andrew should have been associated with”, Lady Colin replied “I’m not saying he wasn’t”. Lady Colin explained: “I hear what you’re saying and see where you’re coming from… but as with these things everything is layered and measured and everything has, should be viewed proportionately,” before claiming that Bill Clinton had been more associated with Epstein than Andrew. GB News executives must be wondering if it was really this issue they wanted to make a splash.

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