Defiant Katie Hopkins makes one last jibe as she’s deported over Covid quarantine stunt

Controversial UK TV personality Katie Hopkins insists ‘we will fight’ as she’s deported for flouting Australia’s hotel quarantine rules.

Katie Hopkins leaves Sydney on Monday. Picture: Matrix

Divisive British TV personality Katie Hopkins couldn’t resist one last jibe at Australia, as she is deported for flouting the country’s quarantine rules.

Hopkins departed Sydney Airport on Monday afternoon after her visa was cancelled over the breach and as NSW police confirmed the 46-year-old was issued a $1000 fine for not wearing a mask on Sunday – a breach of the state’s public health orders.

But a defiant Hopkins posted a picture of herself in an empty business class cabin on Instagram, claiming: “You may ‘deport’ the Hopkins. But you cannot silence the truth”.

Telling her followers she would “see them in the morning,” she added: “We will fight to TAKE BACK our freedoms.”

The post, which has since disappeared from her public page, followed shortly after the far right commentator uploaded a “how to survive a media sh*t storm” guide, telling her “lovelies” not to be cowed, as the “fight for freedom” was a “fight for our children’s future”.

Hopkins was dumped as a member of Seven’s Big Brother program at the weekend after she streamed a video describing Covid-19 lockdowns as “the greatest hoax in human history” and boasting about breaching quarantine rules.

Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews labelled Hopkins’s behaviour “shameful” and a “slap in the face” to millions of Aus­tralians in lockdown.

“She’s clearly not someone that we want to keep in this country for a second longer than we have to,” she told ABC News.

“So personally, I’m very pleased she’ll be leaving.”

While Ms Andrews ordered an urgent Border Force review into whether Hopkins had breached her visa conditions, the decision by production company Endemol Shine Australia to cancel her contract meant she was no longer ­allowed in the country.

Hopkins, who was due to join the cast of Big Brother VIP in Aug­ust, gloated about breaking quarantine rules by taunting hotel staff and opening her door naked and without a face mask when workers delivered her food.

Quarantine rules required her to wear a mask and wait at least 30 seconds before opening the door for food deliveries. Her behaviour triggered more than 10,000 ­people to sign a petition to send the celebrity back home.

The Seven Network confirmed on Sunday the right-wing personality would no longer be in Big Brother VIP, saying the network “strongly condemn her irresponsible and reckless comments in hotel quarantine”.

NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard described Hopkins’s behaviour as “imbecilic” and “mind-boggling”.

The federal government shifted the blame on to the NSW government for her exemption to enter the country, saying the state approved quarantine for Big Brother contestants above its incoming travellers cap.

Ms Andrews said the state government approached the federal government arguing there was an economic benefit to Hopkins’s visit.

Mr Hazzard said a “state operations centre” assessed appli­cations for exemptions. “They make recommendations to the government … sometimes it comes to me, sometimes it doesn’t. If there is no objection from state operations and it can be done in a safe way, it will generally get approval if it is a big positive for our economy and jobs.”

Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce blasted Hopkins at the weekend, saying he was a strident supporter of the nation’s quarantine system.