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Katie Hopkins 'in talks' to host her own chat show on TLC after My Fat Story

The talk show is reportedly still in the planning stages

Scott d'Arcy,Robert de

Thursday 09 April 2015 10:56 BST

Katie Hopkins makes a living out of courting controversy (Ian Gavan| Getty Images)

Controversial reality TV star Katie Hopkins is reportedly being lined up for her own chat show.

She is working with digital channel TLC on the show, according to Broadcast Magazine which said it was still in the planning stages.

The channel declined to comment, but Hopkins has worked with them before - making My Fat Story which saw her put on more than three stone in weight and then lose it again in a bid to back up her controversial views on weight loss.

Hopkins is a controversial figure and regularly clashes with other celebrities. Earlier this week she was at the centre of an online row with ex-footballer Robbie Savage over comments she made about dementia patients “blocking beds”.

Katie Hopkins' most offensive moments

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Katie Hopkins' most offensive moments

Katie Hopkins on 'plus size'

'To call yourself 'plus-size' is just a euphemism for being fat. Life is much easier when you're thinner. Big is not beautiful, of course a job comes down to how you look.'

Katie Hopkins' most offensive moments

Katie Hopkins on naming children

‘I think you can tell a great deal from a name. For me, there are certain names that I hear and I think ‘Urgh’. For me, a name is a shortcut of finding out what class that child comes from and makes me ask, ‘Do I want my children to play with them?’ There’s a whole set of things that go with children like that and that’s why I don’t like those sorts of children. ‘Hi, this is my daughter Charmaine’. I hear: ‘Hi, I am thick and ignorant.’’

Katie Hopkins' most offensive moments

Katie Hopkins on gender equality

'Women don't want equal treatment, they couldn't handle it if they got it. It's a tough world out there. What a lot of women are actually looking for is special treatment. What women need to realise is that they have to toughen up.'

Katie Hopkins' most offensive moments

Katie Hopkins on immigration

'I've always said if you go into a school playground and shout Mohammad, you'll probably get 100 children running towards you!"

Katie Hopkins' most offensive moments

Katie Hopkins to Benefits Street's White Dee

'Do you not feel like the patron saint of druggies and dropouts?'

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Katie Hopkins' most offensive moments

Katie Hopkins on tattoos

'Are tattoos just a badge for the stupid? For me, and for lots of people like me, when you see tatoos you think of someone who is just looking for attention, who hasn't managed to find a way in their life through conventional means and who is just shouting 'I want attention! I want to be looked at!'

Katie Hopkins' most offensive moments

Katie Hopkins on addiction

‘I don’t believe what Russell Brand says about addiction. I just don’t buy it. Gazza likes drinking, let him crack on. He is enjoying himself.’

Katie Hopkins' most offensive moments

Katie Hopkins on The X Factor

'The X Factor 2013 has ended in a painful showdown between a fat mum in a jumpsuit (Sam Bailey) and a small boy in whatever his mum laid out for him on his bed (Nicholas McDonald)'

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Katie Hopkins on the Egyptian uprising

'The difference between most mothers and me is that I didn’t sit around drinking coffee at baby group for 12 months after the birth of my baby. No, in three weeks I was back in my suit, back at my desk earning profit for my business and I don’t see why other women shouldn’t do the same.'

Katie Hopkins' most offensive moments

Katie Hopkins on maternity leave

'Egyptian uprising continues to look like Bonfire Night. Protest fireworks. Right up there with angry cup cakes.'

Katie Hopkins' most offensive moments

Katie Hopkins on 'gingerism'

'Ginger babies. Like a baby. Just so much harder to love. A ginger person with tattoos called Jayden? The triumvirate of horror!'

Katie Hopkins' most offensive moments

Katie Hopkins on affairs

'I lied to get someone else's husband because I wanted him. I give myself 8 out of 10 for ruthlessness for that one.'

Katie Hopkins' most offensive moments

Katie Hopkins on the elderly

‘Personally I hate mobility scooters. I find their owners intolerable. Ran past a mobility scooter going up hill. Made me giggle. I need to grow up and stop being an arse.’

Katie Hopkins' most offensive moments

Katie Hopkins after the Glasgow helicopter crash

'Life expectancy in Scotland is 59.5. Goodness me. That lot will do anything to avoid working until retirement.'

Katie Hopkins' most offensive moments

Katie Hopkins on Ramadan

'Channel 4 broadcasts Islamic calls to prayer for Ramadan. A 30 day reminder that minority rules in the UK. Any more PC, it'd be a bloody laptop.'

Katie Hopkins' most offensive moments

Katie Hopkins on self-harming

'I am advised by the Twitterati to 'cut myself'. I grazed myself on my house gate yesterday. Will that suffice?'

The former Wales international, an ambassador for the Alzheimer's Society, said he was “mortified” by the Sun columnist's tweets as his father Colin died at 63 after fighting the disease, which is thought to affect 850,000 people in the UK.

The row erupted when Hopkins wrote on Twitter: “Dementia sufferers should not be blocking beds. What is the point of life when you no longer know you are living it? Bang me over the head.

“The day I am diagnosed with dementia is the day I book my ticket to Dignitas.

“Ultimately, if your family member is in hospital with dementia because you are not caring for them - you have no right to be outraged.”

In a phone-in with Phil Williams on BBC Radio 5 live, Savage accused the Celebrity Big Brother finalist of making “stupid naive comments”.

Match Of The Day pundit Savage said: “I spoke to my mother, my mother's in tears. I've been in tears tonight because I lost my hero, my father, from a disease which people know nothing about. Going on Twitter to vent some stupid naive comment beggars belief. I'm mortified.”

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