Katie Price has called out Phillip Schofield for scolding her for saying the n-word live on This Morning.
The mum-of-five used the offensive word twice during an appearance on the daytime show in 2017, when she was talking about the online abuse her disabled son Harvey has been subjected to.
After she used the word during the interview, host Phil intervened and told Katie: “Hey, you don’t need to say that word again.”
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Now, speaking to New! magazine, Katie said: “I remember when I went on This Morning and I asked Phillip Schofield how he would feel if someone called his child a ‘black [expletive]’ and ‘spastic’ like these bullies did to my son – he was shocked.
“Why don’t people have that same reaction when it’s written down?”
She said she doesn’t understand why she was “stopped from saying it on a live TV show yet no one stops people writing it online”.
At the time, watchdog Ofcom confirmed Katie’s comments would not face any more investigation.
A spokesperson said at the time: “We considered a handful of complaints about potentially offensive language in this mid-morning magazine programme.
“We found it was used in a descriptive manner to illustrate the nature of online abuse and the presenters issued an apology immediately after the broadcast.”
Harvey, 17, has Prader-Willi Syndrome, is partially blind and autistic.
Katie has been fighting for Harvey’s Law, which, if passed, would see online trolls prosecuted for their online abuse.
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She began a petition to make trolling a criminal offence and it received over 220,000 signatures last year. MPs also acknowledged that online abuse should be made illegal.
Speaking in parliament last year, Katie said: “I know I’m here because it started off because Harvey and his disabilities but this isn’t just for people with disabilities. It will help everybody.”
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