Carol Vorderman has demanded an apology from a by-election candidate over offensive social media posts.
Robert Kenyon, the Reform UK candidate in the Makerfield by-election, reportedly engaged with a post containing graphic sexual language about Ms Vorderman, the Welsh broadcaster and former Countdown presenter.
Campaign group Hope Not Hate revealed that Mr Kenyon responded to the comments on Christmas Eve 2021, writing: "He’s only saying what we’re all thinking," alongside a thumbs up and a laughing emoji.
Carol Vorderman said: "I want an apology from Rob Kenyon, to me, and to all the other people he’s abused online."
She added: “I’m 65, I grew up in North Wales in abject poverty, I spent half of my life living in the North, whether it was Leeds, or Manchester, or that strip of North Wales.”
Mr Kenyon has since deleted the X account in question.
Danny Kruger, a Reform UK MP, described Mr Kenyon’s comments as "inappropriate," but suggested they were private remarks.
Exclusive: Carol Vorderman demands apology from Reform by-election candidate Robert Kenyon over lewd comments.
Ex-Deputy PM Angela Rayner also tells The Mirror: “It says all you need to know about Reform that they are allowing this repulsive misogynistic abuse to stand.”…— Ashley Cowburn (@ashcowburn) May 25, 2026
Mr Kruger told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: "The great challenge for social media for private people is that they use it as if they are chatting to their friends in the park.
"Clearly an inappropriate thing to say publicly.
"I’m not going to judge people for their what are essentially regarded at the time and intended as private conversations."
Ms Vorderman rejected this argument.
Vorderman went on to tell the Mirror that Mr Kruger "says Kenyon is just an ordinary man saying ordinary things."
"No, I’m sorry, Kenyon isn’t an ordinary man. He’s a cowardly man which is why he deleted one of his social media accounts."
"They are public comments on a public platform and if Danny Kruger thinks online abuse is OK then Reform are therefore stating online abuse against women is OK, then all women in Makerfield need to know that."
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