Hopkins' social media presence and outspoken views, especially on UK politics, social class, migrants and race, have attracted controversy, criticism, media scrutiny, legal issues, protests and petitions.[7] She has been accused of racism by journ*lists, advocacy groups and politicians for her comments about migrants.[8] In 2016, Mail Online was forced to pay significant damages to a Muslim family whom Hopkins had falsely accused of extremist links.[9][10] In the 2017 libel case Monroe v Hopkins, Hopkins was required to pay damages and legal costs to Jack Monroe after making defamatory remarks on Twitter.

Her role at LBC was terminated in May 2017 following her comments on Twitter about the need for a "final solution" — a term used by the Nazis to refer to the Holocaust — after the Manchester Arena bombing; she later altered it to "true solution", describing the earlier version as a "mis-type".[11] Hopkins was permanently suspended from Twitter in June 2020 for what the company described as "violations of our hateful conduct policy"; she joined Parler afterwards.[12][13]

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Hopkins has been accused of fat-shaming by journ*lists. When appearing on ITV's This Morning, Hopkins expressed her views on obesity stating: "Would I employ you if you were obese? No I would not. You would give the wrong impression to the clients of my business. I need people to look energetic, professional and efficient. If you are obese, you look lazy", and "To call yourself 'plus size' is just a euphemism for being fat. Life is much easier when you're thinner. Big is not beautiful, of course a job comes down to how you look."[108]

In 2014, Hopkins took part in a TLC two-part documentary, Katie Hopkins: Fat and Back, where she gained and lost nearly 50 pounds (22 kilograms) of weight.[119] Initially, she ridiculed an overweight woman for being 'a wreck of a human being'. When the TLC show aired in January 2015, Hopkins acknowledged that losing excess weight "actually turned out to be a real ordeal...now I know how hard it is to be fat and carry that weight around and I know no one wants to be fat by choice,"[119] she said.

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