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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Jamie Grierson

SHOCKING: Laurence fox s libel claim over racism accusations to go to retrial - You Need To See This

Laurence Fox outside court
Judges dismissed Laurence Fox’s attempt to overturn the ruling that he libelled two men when he called them ‘paedophiles’. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images

Laurence Fox’s libel claim after he was called a racist on social media will go to a retrial, the court of appeal has ruled.

The former actor was successfully sued by Simon Blake, who is now the chief executive of Stonewall, and the drag artist Crystal over a row on the social media platform Twitter, now called X.

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