Nige Farage vowed he will boycott the BBC after he was asked on Question Time whether his Reform UK party ‘attracts racists and extremists’ by then Green Party Co-leader Adrian Ramsay
The BBC has denied claims make-up artists painted Nigel Farage’s face with “bodily fluids”. Historian and previous BBC presenter Lisa Hilton alleged the Reform UK leader’s make-up was applied with contaminated brushes.
Writing in The Critic Magazine, Hilton claimed a “morning news veteran” told her about it. She said: “Naming no names, but Nigel Farage might want to start doing his own face, given the extraordinarily imaginative range of natural cosmetics which the brushes are loaded with when he’s in the chair.”
The “natural cosmetics” include “human saliva” and “other bodily fluids”, the Daily Mail reports. The Daily Star understands the BBC strongly denies the claims as a source suggested the claims were an insult to their professional make-up artists.
The Reform UK leader last year vowed to boycott the BBC after he was asked on Question Time if his party “attracts racists and extremists” by then Green Party Co-leader Adrian Ramsay.
Back in June 2024, Mr Farage said: ” I have just been invited to appear on Laura Kuenssberg. I’m refusing until the BBC apologises for their dishonest QT audience.
“Our state broadcaster has behaved like a political actor throughout this election. Reform will be campaigning vigorously to abolish the licence fee.”
The Reform leader claimed he had “done more to drive the far-right out of British politics than anybody else alive”.
He claimed the audience was rigged and “these were not ordinary members of the public”, adding: “They hand-picked a prominent pro-Palestine activist and even a BBC TV director to attack me.
It comes as Farage dubbed Vladimir Putin a “very bad dude” and backed shooting down Russian jets that enter NATO airspace. The Reform UK leader appeared to counter accusations he was pro-Moscow after previously admitting he admired the Russian president.
Speaking to Bloomberg’s The Mishal Husain Show Thursday, Farage said: “Clearly, Putin is not a rational man. The idea that I’m soft on this is just nonsense.”
He added: “Obviously, Putin is a very bad dude. I was really hoping that Trump would bring Putin to heel, that some kind of compromise could be struck, as it’s just been recently struck with Gaza and Israel. Clearly, that is not going to happen.”
When asked what he’d choose to do if Russian jets crossed into allied airspace, Farage said: “Gotta shoot them down.”
The 61-year-old also said frozen Russian assets should be used to provide loans for Ukraine “if they’re there through illegal means”.
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