Defiant Katie Hopkins denies quarantine breach

Controversial British commentator Katie Hopkins claims she has been unfairly targeted by Australian authorities and that “no one in Australia has anything else to talk about other than me being naked”.

Controversial far right British commentator Katie Hopkins has denied flouting quarantine hotel rules and claimed she experienced a “kind of campaign of harassment” from authorities who were “looking for some way of getting rid of me and getting the problem to go away” when she was deported from Australia last month.

Hopkins, once described as the most hated woman in England, has broken her silence on getting booted from Australia after she revealed she was in Sydney and joked on social media about how she planned to frighten the security who were working at her quarantine hotel.

Hopkins was in Australia preparing to film Big Brother VIP for Channel 7. She was dumped from the show after outrage about her casting on the show and her comments.

Hopkins has been strangely quiet about being kicked out of the country, however yesterday she unleashed on her “scary” experience.

Katie Hopkins criticised the lockdown on her Instagram page.

Hopkins was kicked out Big Brother VIP and deported from Australia. Picture: Supplied

“I am in quarantine and Australia has gone crazy and we have every politician ever having their say, no one in Australia has anything else to talk about other than me being naked, which I wasn’t, and it just went crazy,” she told her social media followers.

“So they started this kind of campaign of harassment.

“All of a sudden having done nothing at all to break any rules whatsoever I had calls in the middle of the night telling me that I had an incident of repeatedly opening my door.”

Hopkins denied the breach: “I said, ‘I didn’t repeatedly open my door, I wouldn’t, I know the rules, I wouldn’t break them’.

“They alleged the reason I was deported from Australia was the allegation, unproven, that I leaned into an empty hotel corridor, like leaned, without wearing a face mask. (At) quarter to 9 on a Friday evening (July 16) I leaned into a corridor allegedly without wearing a face mask.”

She claimed she was kept awake for hours before being issued with a penalty notice by New South Wales police and was visited by men “in full PCR blue hospital plastic, plastic, plastic, visor, mask, mask, masks and they had cameras.”

She claimed she received threats that food delivered to her room would be tampered with and that her fine from police was written on a form used for traffic infringements.

She said after Border Force got involved by Monday, July 19 she was on a plane home to England.

Hopkins says she faced a “kind of campaign of harassment” from Australian authorities.

“I was given 10 minutes warning by the police telling me I was being picked up and taken out of that room, ten minutes to be ready to get on a plane home,” she said.

“So if you see any headlines saying was naked or broke quarantine or any of that, it is all bull sh-t, it is all here on this piece of paper and they fined me $1000 for it.

“And then they came and picked me up in a police wagon supervised by men in black suits and threw me on a plane.”

Seven and Endemol Shine Australia said last month distanced themselves from Hopkins

“Seven and Endemol Shine strongly condemn her irresponsible and reckless comments in hotel quarantine,” they said in a statement.

New South Wales Police said in a statement last month: “Police attached to the hotel quarantine operation were notified of an alleged breach of the Public Health Order at a hotel on Sussex Street, Sydney, about 8.45pm on Friday.

“Following inquiries, a 46-year-old woman was issued a $1000 Penalty Infringement Notice for not wearing a face covering.

“NSW Police assisted Australian Border Force with the transfer of the woman to Sydney International Airport this afternoon, following the cancellation of her visa, departing to the United Kingdom.”

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