Dan Wootton pleads for legal battle cash to stop him being 'cancelled' after allegations

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Dan Wootton has made a plea for cash donations as he attempts to fight serious allegations made against him. The GB News presenter earlier said he "vehemently denies" claims made by the Byline Times.

The publication has alleged that the 40-year-old had “hid behind fake online identities to trick and bribe scores of men into revealing compromising sexual material”, the Mirror reports.The newspaper claims to have seen "extensive evidence" that Wootton posed as a fictitious showbiz agent called Martin Branning to offer sums of up to £30,000 "tax free" to his alleged targets over a 10-year period.The Mirror has spoken to one former colleague of Wootton, who was in contact with a Martin Branning, but are yet to independently verify any link between Branning and Wootton.

The Mirror presented the allegations made by the Bylines Times to GB News on Monday, who replied on Wednesday: "Dan commented on this extensively in his programme last night and we won't be elaborating."Journalist Wootton, 40, later denied the allegations in his GB News show earlier this week.

Speaking to viewers on Tuesday night, he said within his opening monologue: "I, like all fallible humans, have made errors of judgement in the past, but the criminal allegations being made against me are simply untrue."I would like nothing more than to address these spurious allegations.