Katie Hopkins has sort of made a career for herself by being a professional troll. She first came to the public’s attention as a contestant on the Apprentice. Needless to say she didn’t win that but her outspoken opinions and often controversial views made a lasting impression. She is a bit like a walking talking, more offensive version of the Daily Mail. If you don’t know who I am talking about you can look her up on YouTube. Hopkins often appears on This Morning, where she will have an argument, sorry debate, about some controversial issue where she is always pitted against some soft spoken liberal who disagrees with everything she says. Hopkins has targeted the poor, the overweight, Muslims and people who give their children silly names- to name but a few. She famously had a scrap with …show more content…
Hopkins is currently filming a documentary where she piles on 3 stone to then lose it again. The idea is to prove to fat people how easy it is to lose weight. Ever the feminist, Katie once said that a woman should consider herself a failure if she cannot fit into a Karen Millen size 10. So is Katie really as uncaring and brutal as she makes out or is this all part of a persona that gets her lots of attention and presumably, money? And moreover, is Katie simply saying things we all secretly think? Wouldn’t you raise an eyebrow if your daughter made friends with someone called Yoonique, as mine did? Would you give a job to a morbidly obese person when there was a fit and healthy alternative? When Peaches Geldof died of a heroin overdose we painted the picture of a tragic death, a waste of a young life but Katie Hopkins rightly asked would we be this sympathetic towards a single mum on benefits dying of a heroin overdose whilst in sole charge of her