Revealed: Laurence Fox’s girlfriend supporting him by means of libel trial

Laurence Fox‘s new girlfriend is a conspiracy theorist podcaster who has claimed the moon landings have been faked, 9/11 was an inside job, local weather change is a ‘smokescreen’ and Jeffrey Epstein was ‘popped’ after Prince Andrew’s Newsnight interview. 

Elizabeth ‘Liz’ Barker, who was seen accompanying Fox to the High Court as we speak for the beginning of a libel trial, describes herself on Instagram as a mannequin, physique double and stuntwoman. She was born in America however now lives within the UK. 

She repeatedly seems on Elite Thinking Club, a ‘important pondering’ fringe podcast that touts itself as a ‘present devoted to important pondering’ however airs wild conspiracy theories together with the concept Princess Diana was murdered on the orders of the Queen. 

Asked in an episode on the idea of evolution whether or not people are descended from apes, she replied: ‘I believe that is what we’re made to consider and that’s what we needs to be believing [sic] however I do not suppose that’s. No. I believe we come from one other race.’

Barker additionally claims that financier Epstein was killed following Prince Andrew’s Newsnight interview – however Epstein died in August 2019, three months earlier than the Duke of York’s excruciating interview with Emily Maitlis befell.

The Elite Thinking Podcast’s YouTube channel has 500 subscribers, and started posting episodes three years in the past with a single host, Chris Jules Julien.

Barker started showing in episodes initially of 2021, on the top of the coronavirus pandemic, and was fast to start sharing radical views on subjects generally up for debate in conspiracy concept circles.

Julien’s TikTok channel, the place he posts clips from the podcast, has practically 35,000 followers.

The present is out there on various mainstream podcasting platforms, together with Apple Podcasts and Spotify. 

In a video on conspiracies surrounding the Royal Family, shared in February 2021, Barker claimed Jeffrey Epstein was killed due to his hyperlinks with Prince Andrew.

The disgraced financier died in jail in August 2019 in what was dominated to be a suicide; he had been arrested on suspicion of intercourse trafficking shortly earlier than his loss of life, prompting a raft of theories suggesting he had been murdered.

She mentioned within the podcast: ‘The minute Prince Andrew had to do this interview that was it, Jeffrey was going to be popped. Because he is royalty – and also you mess with the royals you ain’t going to return out alive are you.’ 

However, the interview itself was solely recorded in November 2019, three months after Epstein died.

In March 2021, Barker appeared to counsel that the September 11 assaults had ‘gray areas’ of unanswered questions, making obvious references to a concept in style amongst conspiracists that warmth from jet gas could not have melted the World Trade Centre’s metal development.

In an episode entitled ‘The reality behind 911’, Barker claims to have seen a ‘completely different perspective’ on the al-Qaeda-orchestrated assault after visiting the US.

She mentioned: ‘Being round American folks I used to be listening to about these gray areas which wasn’t on the media [sic]. Things just like the gas, the metal, in regards to the constructing and the way in which it got here down.’

She added that her father appeared to counsel the assaults had been a so-called ‘false flag’ operation to justify the US invasion of Afghanistan. 

Ms Barker continued: ‘My dad was an ex-military man. I advised him I used to be petrified on the flight and he advised me I’d be high-quality. 

‘I obtained there and he advised me they should warrant having a struggle – this was their warrant. This was their approach of getting all of us to say ”sure, go get them”.

‘So I got here again from my journey with a unique perspective on it. Those who went to work that day in that constructing didn’t suppose that one other human being – these in energy and folks operating the nation and out of doors sources would ever do one thing like that.’

She added: ‘When I got here again was once I realised the world is not what we expect it’s. We must look into the gray areas. 

‘We must suppose extra, we have to communicate to folks, we have to go to those locations and truly study from these individuals who have skilled these factor that have been there. Because they’re the individuals who needs to be telling the tales, not the media and newsreaders.’ 

Later in 2021, Barker appeared on the podcast once more to counsel that local weather change was a ‘smokescreen for one thing else’, as a method to ‘management’ folks.

‘I really feel like [climate change] is the subsequent emergency they wish to throw at us,’ she mentioned.

‘It’s like we have gone from the Covid emergency to local weather change…the subsequent factor we wish to management you with is local weather change. 

‘I’ve been listening to all these completely different radio broadcasts, social media and information retailers about how the influence of us wanting down was nice for the planet and we might need to have these hearth drill lockdowns constantly to ensure that us to be right here and have a planet…I really feel it is a smokescreen for one thing else.’ 

And in an April 2021 episode, Barker appeared to counsel that the 1969 Moon landings had been a ‘massive lie’ – one other in style conspiracy concept suggesting that the Apollo 11 mission was faked.

She mentioned on the episode: ‘Can you think about being one thing like that. Imagine being again in that point and so they say: ”We’re going to say you’ve got been to the moon however you are not really going”. 

‘I don’t think I could go along with it. That’s quite a big lie to keep going.’

As the coronavirus pandemic continued into 2022, Barker told an episode recorded in January that she was not vaccinated and regarded the government’s push for vaccinations as ‘propaganda’.

‘I don’t wear a mask, I’m not vaccinated, and I don’t use hand sanitiser due to the toxic chemicals…and I’m still alive, I’m still here,’ she said.

‘I feel like the Government feel like they’re losing control. People are fed up of it. It’s a divisive tactic – mask wearers v non-wearers and vaccinated versus non-vaccinated. 

‘I’ve never seen so much push for a medical treatment and getting vaccinated and boosters like I have in a year and a half. It’s mind-blowing. All the adverts, all the propaganda. It’s just crazy.’ 

She later said that getting a vaccine was a matter of choice, adding: ‘It’s the coercion and manipulation. You should not be coerced or manipulated into doing something you don’t want to do.’ 

Barker’s social media features posts in which she rails against efforts to protect people during the coronavirus pandemic, including in 2020 when she claimed to clash with producers on a film set in Liverpool while working as a body double.

The podcaster, who has admitted that she was not vaccinated against Covid, called on-set Covid safety marshalls ‘power tripping bullies’ – and claimed she ‘won the battle’ to be on set because ‘production needed me more than I needed them’.

While she did not name the film in her social media post, she included an image of comic book character Catwoman and tagged the post #WarnerBros. 

Catwoman, played by Zoe Kravitz, appeared in Warner Bros’ 2022 action film The Batman, which was filmed in Liverpool in 2020. Barker’s name does not appear in the list of credits on IMDB.

Other photos on social media show her wearing a t-shirt reading ‘I will not comply’, and waving a sign appearing to express support for the so-called ‘Blade Runners’ who have vandalised ULEZ cameras in protest at the zone’s expansion in August. 

Barker was pictured holding hands with Fox as he entered the High Court to begin a libel trial on Wednesday.

Fox has shared images of him with Barker previously, posting a selfie ahead of a ‘worldwide freedom rally’ in September, captioned: ‘Off for a little stroll.’

The pair have additionally been pictured collectively at hustings forward of the Uxbridge by-election in July, the place he misplaced his deposit after choosing up simply 714 votes, and at a charity gala in London in September.

The actor-turned-politician is being sued by former Stonewall trustee Simon Blake and drag artist Crystal over a row on Twitter, now often known as X, in October 2020.

Mr Fox known as Mr Blake and the previous RuPaul‘s Drag Race contestant, whose actual title is Colin Seymour, ‘paedophiles’ in an alternate a couple of choice by Sainsbury’s to have a good time Black History Month and supply a protected area for black staff.

After Mr Fox called for a boycott of the supermarket, the actor was called ‘a racist’ by the pair and actress Nicola Thorp in their own posts on the platform.

The Reclaim Party founder, who denies being a racist, is counter-suing the trio over their tweets, claiming they broken his status. 

Calvin Robinson, who was sacked by GB News after showing support for Fox after he made sexist remarks about political correspondent Ava Evans, appeared to confirm the relationship in a post on social media.

Responding to the claim made by lawyers in court that Fox was an ‘intelligent racist’, Mr Robinson wrote on X: ‘You couldn’t make it up. Laurence was sat there in court today with his mixed race girlfriend and mixed race close friend, being called a racist by three middle class white folks.’

Barker and Fox were contacted for comment.