News about Cathy Newman

Channel 4 News host Cathy Newman says she felt 'utterly dehumanised' and 'violated' after viewing deepfake porn video of herself during a investigation into the AI tech

www.dailymail.co.uk, April 17, 2024
The 49-year-old (left), who fronts the channel's evening news bulletins, was investigating videos made with artificial intelligence when she was made aware of a clip that superimposed her face onto the body of an adult film actress as she had sex (top right). Ms Newman is one of more than 250 British celebrities believed to have been targeted by sick internet users who create the uncannily realistic videos (an advert for deepfake software, bottom right) without the consent of their victims - which is set to become a criminal offence in Britain. Footage of the veteran reporter viewing the video of her computer-generated doppelganger aired in a recent report on Channel 4 News; she says the experience has haunted her, not least because the perpetrator is 'out of reach'.

EMILY PRESCOTT: As the fight for women has grown, the Mayfair club boss resigns as the tide for women has risen

www.dailymail.co.uk, April 6, 2024
EMILY PRINCIOTT: The chairman of a leading exclusive London gentlemen's club has resigned ahead of a potential change in policy that might result in women being able to participate. Gareth Neame, the founder of Mayfair's 156-year-old Savile Club, resigned on Friday and renounced his memberships at the Beefsteak Club and the Garrick Club simultaneously. Two sources close to Savile blamed his decision to leave on a variety of clubs' discussions over whether women are eligible to join. According to one of the accounts, Mr Neame simply could not cope with the tests and media involved. Mr Neame denied that the reason for his departure from the clubs was due to the issue of women members.

The first female members of the Garrick club, including ex-Home Secretary Amber Rudd, have been welcomed by the club, which is the first female member of the 193rd group after a controversy

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 28, 2024
The £17,000-a-year club has long been at the center of controversy over its all-male membership, and now it appears that a number of individuals, including actor Stephen Fry, have called for women to join. According to broadcaster Emily Maitlis, who said on X that she had received a formal letter promoting the candidates, club trustees have written to the chairman, requesting that women be considered the same as men.' According to reports, the female candidates' pages are being 'prepared and signed as soon as possible,' as well as asking for confirmation that they are eligible for membership.' Former Home Secretary Amber Rudd (left) actor Juliet Stevenson, comedy actress Baroness Ayesha Hazarika, and Channel 4 news presenter Cathy Newman are among the notable women reportedly being recruited for the club.

CATHY NEWMAN, a presenter for Channel 4 News, discusses the Jordan Peterson interview, her retirement plans, and who she'd be reluctant to interview on camera

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 23, 2024
Cathy Newman is late. She texted me to tell me she would be. I'm waiting for her in Lantana, a friendly, raucous restaurant near London Bridge; the sort of place where young publicists feel conducting an interview but not in a setting where old interviewers with sensitive recording equipment resentment.

Cathy Newman, a Channel 4 newsreader, has been among the victims of deepfake pornography, according to the probe

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 22, 2024
An investigation has revealed that more than 250 British celebrities, including Channel 4 newsreader Cathy Newman, have been affected by deepfake pornography. The investigation, which was conducted by Channel 4 itself, discovered that scores of celebrities' faces had been digitally altered footage of scores of celebrities of high-profile celebrities were superimposed onto pornographic videos using artificial intelligence (AI). The broadcaster said it did an investigation into the five most popular deepfake websites and discovered that 255 of the nearly 4,000 people featured were British, with all but two being women. The 49-year-old presenter's book said she felt anger after viewing the footage, though the investigation revealed that the majority of the victims of this type of crime are not celebrities. It comes months after deepfake photos of pop singer Taylor Swift were posted to X, formerly Twitter, and experts have warned of the dangers involved with the technology in spreading disinformation.

As she reveals how she has had to combat sexist trolls throughout her life, Channel 4 presenter Cathy Newman reveals, "a boy took out his penis and took my hand on it" at school

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 8, 2024
As she chronicled a lifetime struggle with sexism, Channel 4 presenter Cathy Newman revealed that a boy took out his penis and gave her hand to it at school. The 49-year-old journalist was given a scholarship to attend a £47,500-per-year Charterhouse boys' public school in Surrey, which only had girls in sixth form. One time, a boy I was sitting next to got his penis out and put my hand on his c***,' a newman described being "mark out" at the prestigious academy. Also a married mother of two, the host said she had been 'pinched repeatedly at parties when I was a young journalist,' which was tedious.' She went straight to bed for the second time at a party, but a call from a national newspaper editor who was in the bar asked her if she'd come up and sleep in my room's mysteriously missing', caused her to go to bed.'

Cathy Newman, a 49-year-old Channel 4 News presenter, reveals how she can'train' herself to get used to her ageing face - and not to Botox

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 26, 2024
Cathy Newman, a British journalist, has shared a piece of advice with women who are dealing with ageing's social pressures. Newsnight's host, The Ladder, has announced that she will never get Botox. And she has outlined her approach for dealing with the normal aging process and the steps her own face goes through as she refuses to give up aggressive anti-aging treatments. Although Cathy doesn't like herself on television, she does recommend that women learn to accept their faces as they get older by looking in the mirror. 'Train yourself to look at your reflection and see beyond the lines,' she said. (Pictured L-R: Cathy Newman)

As she leaves Britain to return to the United States, the government's rape tsar insists there is "no point to ever reporting a crime to the police again," and slams are used as a "rubber stamp" whose instruction was "ignored."

www.dailymail.co.uk, October 6, 2023
EXCLUSIVE: Emily Hunt, the Ministry of Justice's (MoJ) independent advisor to the Rape Report, says she no longer has faith in the British criminal justice system and sees no point' in reporting a crime again. Since being drugged and assaulted herself in 2015, she was supposed to provide the MoJ with specialist advice on victims of rape and their experiences of the criminal justice system. After five years, the stranger was given a suspended prison term for voyeurism after breaching an indefinite restraining order, but he was never charged with rape because the CPS found there was insufficient evidence. Ms Hunt has now given up on attempting to change the UK justice system's reaction to rape, and she's heading back to the United States because she doesn't feel secure in London.

The ex-acting Met Commissioner is under scrutiny for making'regretful sex' remarks

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 1, 2023
During a meeting at Scotland Yard in January 2022, Sir Stephen House, acting Met Commissioner following the dismissal of Dame Cressida Dick, is accused of making the remarks to Home Office advisor Professor Betsy Stanko. Sir Stephen strongly denies making the 'abhorrent' comments

Suella Braverman, a freshman, has a new challenge as the Home Office advisor who just resigns live on radio

www.dailymail.co.uk, December 9, 2022
Nimco Ali (pictured left), who was named as an independent government advisor on combating violence against women and girls by then home secretary Priti Patel in October 2020, slammed Suella Braverman (inset) and effectively announced her intention to leave in an interview on Times Radio. When asked by Cathy Newman (pictured right) if she were content to remain as an independent advisor, she replied, No. I'm committed to ending violence against women and girls, and I believe there are several avenues in order to continue doing so.' Suella continued, "I'm just saying that Suella and I are on completely different planets when it comes to women and girls' rights, as well as the way we talk about ethnic minorities, particularly people from a refugee background.'

Meghan Markle 'faced many credible and ''disgusting'' threats to her life'

www.dailymail.co.uk, November 29, 2022
Mr Basu (top), the Met's Assistant Commissioner of Specialist Operations, said the Duchess of Sussex's challenges (top, with Prince Harry) were "disgusting" and "very real." When asked if the threats were credible, he replied: 'Absolutely, and if you'd read the stuff and you were getting it,' you'd know it's online...the kind of rhetoric that's popular, and if you don't know what I know.' Mr Basu said there had been threats to Ms Markle's more than once, adding: "We had teams investigating it." People have been charged for those assaults.' Mr Basu's first interview since leaving the Metropolitan Police after 30 years was conducted on Channel 4 News by Cathy Newman.

After Nadine Dorries did not apologise for TV show remarks, the committee expressed dissatisfaction

www.dailymail.co.uk, October 28, 2022
Ms Dorries testified before the committee in May that she discovered that the 2010 cast members were paid actors. Dorries was on the show alongside three other MPs, with each spending a week on a different housing estate. 'The parents of some of the boys in that program contacted me and brought me lunch to inform me that the boys were in acting school,' she said. They weren't really living in a flat; they weren't even real.' They were really actors.' 'If you recall, I went to see who cooked food; she was also a salaried actor,' she said.'