Loose Women's Charlene White slams Dan Wootton's 'abusive' tweet with savage 7-word reply.
Presenter Charlene White has hit back at an 'abusive' tweet by broadcaster Dan Wootton that took aim at the Loose Women line-up on Thursday
TV presenter and journalist Charlene White has criticised a tweet by Dan Wootton that he posted shortly after she shared a photo of the three women she was on the Loose Women panel with on Thursday 24 October. Her photo showed Charlene posing with regular panellists Brenda Edwards, Judi Love and Kelle Bryan, and Dan Wootton retweeted it with the caption: “How Woke ITV does diversity,” referring to the fact that all four women are black.
Charlene, 44, hit back with the reply: “Bittnerness is a very lonely colour Dan.” She then added a second post that read: “Black women face some of the worst abuse on social media. That is a fact. So this man – with a following of almost half a million – decides to target four black women for… having successful careers. Riling the racists for clout and clicks really is *the* weirdest pastime."
Many fans were quick to show their support of Charlene, Judi, Brenda and Kelle, with one writing: “Well done for calling him out,” while a second commented: “He’s one of the biggest creatures to ever exist. Imagine someone of his age tweeting stuff for attention on social media. He’s a parasite. PS, you lot look fabulous.” Another pointed out: “I don’t recall Dan being all outraged last Thursday when there was a panel of 4 white loose women,” while a fourth fan said: “Loved the panel today, and love seeing four strong, intelligent, interesting women discuss important and fun topics.”
Charlene has previously spoken out about the challenges she has faced as a black woman in the media. In an interview with The Independent last year, Charlene, who was the first black newsreader on ITV’s News at Ten in 2014, said: “Sometimes your face just doesn’t fit in terms of what someone views as being acceptable for journalism. That’s twofold. As a woman and also as a Black woman. Or my accent.” She added that she had once been asked when she worked at the BBC to change the way she spoke. “I fought against that and refused to change. I made a conscious decision not to change the way I spoke. I drop my Ts sometimes, and use colloquial language, but who cares? I may not speak in RP [received pronunciation], but people can understand me so why should I change who I am?”
Charlene began her career as a presenter and journalist for BBC Look East and BBC Radio 5 Live, and she had her own late night talk show on BBC London 94.9. She joined ITN in 2008 and has gone on to present news programmes for the channel, as well as appearing as a guest presenter of Loose Women since 2020. She also appeared on the 2022 series of I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here, alongside Boy George and Matt Hancock.
