{"id":71986,"date":"2025-08-16T21:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T21:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/71986\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T21:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T21:30:07","slug":"gb-news-star-joins-rival-channel-after-brutal-axe-celebrity-news-showbiz-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/71986\/","title":{"rendered":"GB News star joins rival channel after brutal axe | Celebrity News | Showbiz & TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year, Mark Dolan was among the presenters to be affected by GB News<\/a>\u2019 major shake-up, which saw his evening talk show brutally axed<\/a>. The bombshell announcement, which also impacted former Tory<\/a> MP Jacob Rees-Mogg<\/a> and broadcaster Isabel Webster<\/a>, was met with harsh criticism from viewers as well as Dolan, who took to X to confirm his abrupt departure and reveal that he had presented his final show. After stating: \u201cI will speak publicly about this in due course,\u201d the host later revealed<\/a>: \u201cLet me tell you that leaving GB News was not my choice. I was fired. It took minutes. But let me tell you, they did it nicely.\u201d<\/p>\n

In December, Dolan announced his self-titled show would air on YouTube<\/a>, but seven months later, it was confirmed that he would return to screens on GB News\u2019 rival programme, TalkTV<\/a>. TalkTVUpdates\u2019s X account shared: \u201cMark Dolan makes a return to The Home of Common Sense, taking reigns of The Political Asylum, Monday – Thursday 19:00 – 22:00 next week.\u201d<\/p>\n

They added: \u201cKev [Kevin O\u2019Sullivan] will be sitting in for Julia [Hartley-Brewer] 10:00 – 13:00 All Week.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dolan\u2019s TalkTV news was met with excitement from viewers, including one who exclaimed: \u201cExcellent news, should never have left.\u201d<\/p>\n

A second shared: \u201cExcellent news,\u201d to which another simply echoed: \u201cBrilliant!\u201d While one fan remarked: \u201cKevin following on from Mike Graham. The handovers should be good. Now to do the papers between 09.30 – 10.00.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dolan was previously at Talkradio, famously fronted the Channel 4 show Balls of Steel, and presented documentary series The World’s …And Me.<\/p>\n

An insider addressed Dolan’s axe<\/a> and said: \u201cMark’s viewing figures were not good.\u201d They added: “Isabel was too woke and not on message.<\/p>\n

The changes also impacted Rees-Mogg’s, as the news channel announced that he would now only be hosting his show two days a week rather than four.<\/p>\n

Following his GB News departure, Dolan acknowledged that thousands of people expressed their anger at what had happened as he thanked them for their support.<\/p>\n

He then went on to offer a surprising thanks to his former team: \u201cI want to thank GB News’ bold and visionary management, and I want to thank my brilliant production team on Mark Dolan Tonight for the extraordinary amount of hard work that they put into every programme.<\/p>\n

“Let me tell you I have made friends for life – cherished friendships. And that is a wonderful thing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last year, Mark Dolan was among the presenters to be affected by GB News\u2019 major shake-up, which saw…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,6189,37113,37115,9611,37114,37117,8700,37116,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-71986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-gb-news","tag-gb-news-mark-dolan","tag-gb-news-presenters","tag-jacob-rees-mogg","tag-mark-dolan","tag-mark-dolan-talktv","tag-talktv","tag-talktv-presenters","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71986","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=71986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}