Katie Hopkins
English media personality
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| November 5 2023 | Hopkins' Twitter account was reinstated. |
| July 2021 | Deported from Australia and fined for deliberately breaching COVID-19 health regulations. |
| July 19 2021 | Hopkins was fined $A1,000 for not wearing a mask while in hotel quarantine. Her Australian visa was cancelled, and she was subsequently deported from the country. |
| July 18 2021 | Katie Hopkins was sacked from the Australian Big Brother VIP series while in hotel quarantine in Sydney after posting on social media that she had deliberately breached COVID-19 health regulations. |
| January 2021 | Hopkins successfully joined UKIP, explaining her motivation as wanting to do something more meaningful than social media commentary. |
| 2020 | Appeared on 'The Candace Owens Show' and began regular appearances on 'Outsiders' |
| October 2020 | Katie Hopkins issued an apology to Finsbury Park Mosque after being sued for inaccurately linking the mosque to a violent incident that occurred in May 2020. |
| June 2020 | Permanently suspended from Twitter for violations of the platform's hateful conduct policy. |
| 2019 | Hopkins presented a documentary called Homelands about Islam in Europe. |
| 2019 | Made an appearance on 'The Bolt Report' |
| 2018 | Appeared on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight', expanding her international media presence |
| 2018 | Hopkins made a controversial tweet linking the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting to the UK Chief Rabbi's support for Mediterranean migration, which she subsequently deleted. |
| May 2018 | Hopkins applied for an individual voluntary arrangement to avoid bankruptcy after a libel case with Jack Monroe. |
| May 2018 | Katie Hopkins won an IPSO case against the Daily Mirror regarding a false claim about her detention in South Africa, with the newspaper updating their headline and including a correction. |
| March 2018 | Hopkins sold her Exeter home for £930,000. |
| February 2018 | Hopkins visited South Africa to report on alleged 'anti-white racism' and to 'expose' what she claimed was white genocide happening to farmers in the country. |
| January 2018 | Hopkins' appeal application was refused, with the court considering it unlikely to succeed. As a consequence, Hopkins sold her family home to pay the legal costs. |
| 2017 | Following the London Bridge attack, Hopkins criticized 'Liberals in London', claiming they 'actually think multiculturalism means we all die together' and are 'desperately wedded to the multicultural illusion'. |
| November 2017 | Mail Online apologized and paid substantial damages to teacher Jackie Teale after Katie Hopkins falsely accused her of taking her class to a Donald Trump protest in Westminster. |
| July 2017 | Katie Hopkins traveled to Catania, Sicily to visit the C-Star ship associated with the Defend Europe movement, which aimed to obstruct migrant rescue operations in the Mediterranean Sea. |
| July 2017 | MailOnline published and then quickly deleted an article by Hopkins about NGOs and Mediterranean migration, which Save the Children rejected, stating she had not spent time with their crew. |
| June 2017 | On Fox News' Fox & Friends, Hopkins called for internment camps for suspected Muslim extremists following the London Bridge attack, which was condemned by the network staff as a reprehensible idea. |
| June 2017 | Hopkins left LBC radio station following the controversy surrounding her Manchester Arena bombing tweet. |
| May 2017 | Hopkins posted a controversial tweet about the Netflix series 'Dear White People', making a provocative statement about Black Lives Matter, which was subsequently deleted but screenshots were widely circulated. |
| May 26 2017 | LBC announced Hopkins's immediate departure from her radio show following controversial comments about the Manchester Arena bombing. |
| May 23 2017 | Hopkins tweeted a controversial message referencing a 'final solution' in response to the Manchester Arena bombing, which sparked widespread criticism for its Nazi-era terminology and implied ethnic cleansing. The tweet was quickly deleted and reworded. |
| March 2017 | Hopkins was awarded damages of £24,000 and legal costs of £107,000 in the libel case brought by Jack Monroe. |
| March 2017 | Delivered a controversial speech at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, criticizing Muslims and claiming a 'Muslim mafia' controlled parts of Britain, specifically targeting London Mayor Sadiq Khan. |
| January 2017 | During her LBC radio programme, Hopkins responded to a caller named Joseph by dismissing accusations of racism, stating that the term 'racist' has lost its meaning to her. |
| 2016 | MailOnline was forced to pay significant damages to a Muslim family whom she had falsely accused of extremist links. |
| 2016 | Katie Hopkins criticized the Notting Hill Carnival, stating 'I don't buy multiculturalism at all' and arguing that a 'London bubble' believed in multiculturalism. |
| December 2016 | Daily Mail and General Trust settled a libel case brought by the Mahmood family, paying £150,000 in damages plus legal costs over two articles by Hopkins which falsely claimed family members were connected to al-Qaida. |
| December 2016 | The original controversial article by Hopkins was removed from The Sun's website. |
| August 2016 | Hopkins urged London Mayor Sadiq Khan to use water cannon against Black Lives Matter protesters who had chained themselves to the tarmac at Heathrow Airport. |
| August 2016 | Following the drowning of five Londoners at Camber Sands, Hopkins posted a mocking tweet about the deceased, which was reported by Sussex Police to Twitter as 'abusive or harmful' and subsequently deleted. |
| July 2016 | Following the Nice truck attack, Hopkins publicly stated 'Islam disgusts me', defending her comment as 'entirely rational' and not Islamophobic. |
| April 2016 | Hopkins began presenting a Sunday morning talk show on LBC radio. |
| February 2016 | Hopkins underwent brain surgery to remove a portion of her brain to address her epilepsy. |
| January 2016 | Jack Monroe began legal action against Katie Hopkins for a libel case related to false accusations of vandalising a war memorial. |
| 2015 | Hosted her own talk show, 'If Katie Hopkins Ruled the World'. |
| 2015 | Katie Hopkins publicly supported Donald Trump's Republican presidential nomination, expressing admiration for his 'bombastic rhetoric, charisma and populist appeal' and defending his controversial proposal to ban all Muslims from entering the United States. |
| 2015 | Made guest appearances on multiple shows including 'Loose Women' and 'The Nolan Show' |
| December 2015 | Hopkins was interviewed by BBC's Daily Politics presenter Andrew Neil, where she claimed the existence of 'no-go' areas in Britain for non-Muslims but refused to specify these areas, citing 'legal reasons'. |
| December 15 2015 | Mohammad Tariq Mahmood, his brother, and their children were stopped from boarding a Norwegian Air flight from Gatwick to Los Angeles, with their entry visas to the United States cancelled at the airport. |
| November 2015 | Peter Herbert, chair of the Society of Black Lawyers, reported Hopkins and The Sun to the Metropolitan Police Commissioner. Hopkins was questioned but not charged. |
| November 2015 | Students at Brunel University protested against Hopkins by turning their backs and walking out during a debate in which she was participating. |
| November 2015 | Hopkins suffered a seizure that caused her to fall and injure her face in the street, requiring an ambulance to be called. |
| October 2015 | Hopkins spoke at a Church and Media conference, describing herself as 'Jesus of the outspoken' and claiming she never apologizes for her statements. |
| September 2015 | The Sun retweeted an earlier comment from Hopkins about migrants, which was later pulled after Prime Minister David Cameron announced increased asylum support. |
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