Nigel Farage pauses Cameo after ‘free Diddy’ plea and Neo Nazi trick

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Nigel Farage has been tricked into paying tribute to paedophile Ian Watkins and saying ‘up the RA’ in Cameo videos after earning over £80,000 from personalised messages

Farage’s Cameo catastrophe as MP pauses account after series of gaffes

• Nigel Farage has paused his controversial Cameo account after a series of embarrassing gaffes landed him in hot water.
• The Reform Party leader has been duped into making inappropriate videos, including paying tribute to disgraced paedophile Ian Watkins and calling for Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs to be freed. He also voiced support for a Neo-Nazi event and a man convicted of violent disorder.
• Since becoming an MP in 2024, Farage has earned more than £80,000 from personalised video messages on the platform. Users have tricked him into saying controversial statements by scripting messages he reads without proper vetting.
• A Reform spokesperson told the BBC that Farage’s Cameo activity has been “paused for security reasons”. They claimed he used the platform “in good faith and without knowledge of the individuals involved beyond what is written for him”.
• Liberal Democrat Max Wilkinson MP slammed the politician’s judgement. “This shameless Cameo cash grab tells us everything we need to know about Nigel Farage,” he said.
• The MP was tricked into praising Ian Watkins as “a good man, a really good guy, who loved his children” without realising the former Lostprophets frontman is a convicted paedophile.
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