{"id":408847,"date":"2026-04-20T20:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T20:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/408847\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T20:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T20:54:13","slug":"dan-walker-tribunal-live-updates-channel-5-star-faces-co-star-bullying-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/408847\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Walker tribunal live updates: Channel 5 star faces co-star bullying claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Broadcaster <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/3am\/celebrity-news\/who-claudia-liza-vanderpuije-dan-37003955\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">Claudia\u2013Liza Vanderpuije<\/a>. has filed claims of unfair dismissal, discrimination and harassment on grounds of race and sex, and breach of contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">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 class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\"><a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/3am\/celebrity-news\/who-claudia-liza-vanderpuije-dan-37003955\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">Vanderpuije<\/a> co-hosted Channel 5 News with Walker for a year between 2022 and 2023. ITN, which makes Channel 5 News, and Channel 5&#8217;s owner Paramount are also named as respondents to Claudia-Liza Vanderpuije&#8217;s claim, her lawyer said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Walker, a former BBC Breakfast host and <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/strictly-come-dancing\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">Strictly Come Dancing contestant<\/a> 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 class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">It is understood that an internal investigation into claims against Walker was not upheld and no misconduct was found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">An ITN spokesperson said: \u201cThis claim, which is denied in full, will be addressed through the tribunal process.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Broadcaster Claudia\u2013Liza Vanderpuije. has filed claims of unfair dismissal, discrimination and harassment on grounds of race and sex,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[3272,321,131665,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-408847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-bullying","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-dan-walker","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408847","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=408847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}