{"id":253534,"date":"2025-11-09T18:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T18:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/253534\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T18:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T18:44:08","slug":"gb-news-star-calls-for-adil-rays-sacking-after-gmb-host-appears-to-back-sharia-law-tv-radio-showbiz-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/253534\/","title":{"rendered":"GB News star calls for Adil Ray&#8217;s &#8216;sacking&#8217; after GMB host appears to back Sharia law | TV &#038; Radio | Showbiz &#038; TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"GB News\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/gb-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">GB News<\/a> star has shared their outrage and demanded that <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/itv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ITV<\/a> star <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Beloved GMB presenter facing axe in ITV bloodbath\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/showbiz\/tv-radio\/2058669\/beloved-gmb-presenter-facing-axe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Adil Ray should be &#8220;sacked&#8221;<\/a> after reports of the <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/good-morning-britain\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Good Morning Britain<\/a> presenter &#8220;appearing to back Sharia Law&#8221;. Daily Express columnist Carole Malone took to her social media account to share her thoughts on the alleged situation as she made a strong demand.<\/p>\n<p>Posting to <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X\/Twitter<\/a>, the TV host reshared a post which read: &#8220;NEW: GMB host <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Adil Ray\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/adil-ray\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Adil Ray<\/a> was hauled in by bosses yesterday to face crisis talks after posting in support of Sharia Law&#8221;. She then added her own thoughts as she wrote: &#8220;Never mind crisis talks &#8211; he should be sacked. Sharia Law is an abomination that discriminates against and harms women.&#8221; It follows reports that Good Morning Britain executives were cross and bosses were &#8220;sent into a tailspin&#8221; after seeing comments from him shared on social media, so they called him in. Just days before, Adil had posted his support for New York&#8217;s newly elected mayor, Zohran Mamdani. In the post where he shared his support, he appeared to back <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Sadiq Khan jokes about Sharia Law in London in sly dig at Trump\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/politics\/2114653\/sadiq-khan-sharia-law-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sharia law<\/a> for the city.<\/p>\n<p>The presenter had shared on X on November 5: &#8220;Some say Mamdani may implement Sharia Law. He might. The heart of Sharia law is social justice, welfare, fairness, charity and cohesion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Most <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/politics\/2127516\/muslim-march-organisers-told-crowd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Muslim<\/a> countries operate a hybrid of Sharia and civil law, and are slowly reforming and abandoning unethical practices despite the West&#8217;s portrayal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a follow-up post shared on November 7, Adil explained: &#8220;To clarify, I am not actually suggesting Mamdani would implement Sharia law.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But many of the issues he campaigned for are also some of the positive values of Sharia that Muslims try to live by. Something many of us would agree on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The comments come as <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"What the ITV and Sky announcement actually means for public - full breakdown\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/showbiz\/tv-radio\/2130892\/itv-sale-announcement-sky-breakdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ITV are reportedly in high profile talks with Sky<\/a> &#8211; meaning that it couldn&#8217;t be worse timing for the broadcasters.<\/p>\n<p>The channel are said to be in talks to sell its broadcasting arm to Sky in a \u00a31.6billion deal and &#8220;don&#8217;t want anything to derail that&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Adil joined ITV in 2018 as one of the temporary replacements for <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/piers-morgan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Piers Morgan<\/a> on GMB and has become a regular fixture of the show.<\/p>\n<p>Before that, the presenter began his career on the <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/bbc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a>&#8216;s Asian Network and has been a regular across the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/bbc\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a>, including on Radio 5 Live and Radio 4, as well as hosting shows on BBC TV.<\/p>\n<p>He also created the BBC&#8217;s first Muslim sitcom Citizen Khan which ran for five primetime series on BBC1 until 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Express.co.uk have contacted Adil&#8217;s representatives for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A GB News star has shared their outrage and demanded that ITV star Adil Ray should be &#8220;sacked&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[21433,105484,105485,105483,105486,105487,96,59,6189,46750,3327,105481,56,54,55,105482],"class_list":["post-253534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-adil-ray","tag-adil-ray-cancelled","tag-adil-ray-net-worth","tag-adil-ray-sacked","tag-adil-ray-tweets","tag-adil-ray-twitter","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-gb-news","tag-gmb","tag-good-morning-britain","tag-itv-crisis-talks","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-what-did-adil-ray-say"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}