Mark Latham’s meltdown on election evening included a disappearing act throughout Channel 7’s stay broadcast when he walked out with out a phrase to co-hosts, forsaking his bag and keys.
Insiders who witnessed the weird incident within the lead-up to his “vile” tweet controversy have informed news.com.au that he merely unclipped his lapel microphone and walked out the studio.
“He just left. I thought he was going to the bathroom,’’ a witness said.
“But he left in such a hurry he forgot his bag and keys.”
Witnesses declare Mr Latham left the constructing with out chatting with host Michael Usher, political editor Mark Riley, NSW political reporter Amelia Brace or a number of different MPs on the panel.
Ms Brace then slipped into his place as the published continued with out him.
But they declare Mr Latham, who lives in Western Sydney, then returned to the studio after midnight after realising he had left private objects when he staged his hurried exit.
News.com.au has reached out to Mr Latham for remark.
Earlier, Mr Latham had lashed company and the Premier-elect Chris Minns who he claimed was “nervous” on the final election.
“He was sitting over there next to me absolutely pooping his pants that he was going to lose his seat,’’ Mr Latham said.
“I spent part of the night reassuring him he was probably OK.”
Mr Latham additionally referred to as Climate 200 founder Simon Holmes a Court “a complete and utter fraud” throughout a tense interview on the evening.
The NSW One Nation chief is going through widespread backlash over a homophobic tweet directed at homosexual Sydney MP Alex Greenwich.
One Nation chief Pauline Hanson has already requested Mr Latham to apologise over his “disgusting” tweet.
To date he has not accomplished so and has not surfaced because the furore.
“I’ve actually tried to ring Mark a couple of times to no avail and I have clearly sent a text message to him, telling him my views, and I’ve also asked him to give the people an apology,” Ms Hanson mentioned in a video clip.
Mr Latham’s present controversies observe a string of public meltdowns courting again over 20 years.
After main the Labor Party to a crushing defeat in 2004, Mr Latham shaved his head earlier than showing in a suburban park to announce he was quitting Parliament and politics.
He additionally printed The Latham Diaries, a scathing memoir the place he described the revered former Labor chief Kim Beazley as “a dirty dog” who’s “not fit to clean the toilets at Parliament House”.
In the guide, he described former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd within the guide as “a fanatical media networker” claiming he was “addicted to it, worse than heroin”.
In 2006, Mr Latham escaped a legal conviction after pleading responsible to maliciously damaging a news photographer’s $6,700 digital camera.
The Justice of the Peace mentioned each he and the photographer had been “out of line” earlier than their conflict exterior a Sydney quick meals restaurant.
He left his job as a columnist for the Australian Financial Review in August 2015 after utilizing Twitter to assault Australian of the 12 months, Rosie Batty, and the journalists Anne Summers, Leigh Sales, Lisa Pryor, Mia Freedman and Annabel Crabb.
He later tweeted: “The Dismissal: The AFR has sacked poor Latho, who has retired to Mt Hunter Lodge for a rump steak (medium-rare). Maintain The Page.”
Mr Latham then joined Sky News’ Outsiders program in 2016, earlier than he was sacked after calling college students at Sydney Boys’ High “d**kheads” and speculating that he thought one teenager “was gay”.
He additionally wrote a cookbook with broadcaster Alan Jones, Conversations within the Kitchen, a no-frills cookbook for males described by The Sydney Morning Herald as “Women’s Weekly for men’s rights activists”.
In 2015, The Australian reported that Mr Latham’s “crumbling media career could be beyond salvation, industry experts believe, after his week-long public meltdown.”
They have been unsuitable.
Just months later in October, 2015 he debuted on Channel Nine’s “The Verdict”, a brand new late-night discuss present.
There was additionally an expletive-laden efficiency on the Melbourne Writers Festival, resulting in comparisons along with his public struggles within the months after shedding the 2004 federal election as opposition chief.
At the time, Ten news chief Peter Meakin mentioned he didn’t have the cash to supply him a task, however wouldn’t rule it out within the future.
“I think a lot of what Mark Latham says makes sense. It’s a shame. I think on television he’s quite a talent, but dangerous,” he mentioned.
“I haven’t got much to hire him for. Money aside, I think most people would say he’s blown-up his media career, but I wouldn’t. I think in the right program he could still be a considerable asset, but there would be episodes of trouble and I think he quite likes that.”
In 2018, he has introduced a return to politics and plans to run for NSW Parliament for Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party.
Warning “men” and “white people” are being discriminated towards, Mr Latham confirmed he would run for the NSW Legislative Council.
“This is a fight for our civilisational values. Free speech, merit selection, resilience, love of the country all of them under siege from the Left,” he informed 2GB radio.
“So it’s a big fight, as we say every week, I’m at a position and a stage in life where I just can’t stand on the sideline talking about I want to get stuck in as a legislator and as a Parliamentarian.”
Source: www.news.com.au
