{"id":395548,"date":"2026-04-13T01:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T01:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/395548\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T01:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T01:48:11","slug":"dan-walker-to-appear-at-tribunal-as-ex-channel-5-co-host-alleges-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/395548\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Walker to appear at tribunal as ex-Channel 5 co-host alleges discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Presenter Dan Walker will appear at an employment tribunal after his former Channel 5 News co\u2013host alleged racial and sexist discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>Broadcaster Claudia\u2013Liza Vanderpuije, who co-hosted the show with Walker for a year between 2022 and 2023, has filed claims of unfair dismissal, discrimination and harassment on grounds of race and sex, and breach of contract.<\/p>\n<p>She has also filed a claim of suffering a detriment or dismissal due to exercising rights under the Public Interest Disclosure Act \u2013 also known as whistleblowing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"1017\" width=\"640\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/dan-walker-to-appear-at-tribunal-as-ex-channel-5-co-host-alleges-discrimination.jpg\" alt=\"Claudia-Liza Vanderpuije and Dan Walker at a charity event in 2023\" data-title=\"Action for Children Ultimate News Quiz\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Archive\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Archive\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"Jonathan Brady\" data-usage-terms=\"\"\/>Claudia-Liza Vanderpuije and Dan Walker at a charity event in 2023 (PA)<\/p>\n<p>Walker, a former BBC Breakfast host and Strictly Come Dancing contestant who now presents the weekday breakfast show on Classic FM, is listed as a respondent alongside Channel 5 and ITN \u2013 including ITN CEO Rachel Corp \u2013 and Paramount Global, which owns Channel 5.<\/p>\n<p>An ITN spokesperson said on Sunday: \u201cThis claim, which is denied in full, will be addressed through the tribunal process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is understood that an internal investigation into claims against Walker was not upheld and no misconduct was found.<\/p>\n<p>The case is scheduled to be heard at a London employment tribunal from April 20 and expected to last five days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Presenter Dan Walker will appear at an employment tribunal after his former Channel 5 News co\u2013host alleged racial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-395548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}