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EXCLUSIVE: Social media prima and presenter Grace Keeling ‘GK’ Barry will officially beforehand a soon-to-launch BBC documentary astir arguable online forum Tattle Life.
GK Barry: Toxic Gossip will spot nan podcast big exploring nan forum, which allows users to station astir societal media stars, creators and influencers.
The BBC plans to motorboat nan doc connected its YouTube channels and BBC iPlayer adjacent week connected Wednesday, July 1. Programs seldom make it to this constituent without much item leaking, but nan British broadcaster has broadly kept nan show, which is from Full Fat Television, and Barry’s engagement nether wraps until now.
Barry had antecedently praised contributors from nan show connected societal media, and it was known Full Fat was moving a Tattle Life doc, but we person nan afloat item for nan first time.
The doc will spot Barry, who has millions of societal media followers, providing her ain position into what it intends to person each facet of life scrutinized online, arsenic she looks astatine whether Tattle Life is either a abstraction wherever anonymous users tin target influencers and onslaught group successful nan nationalist oculus aliases if it holds online personalities to account.
Barry will meet nan likes of a female whose hubby was accused of faking cancer, pinch nan allegations continuing aft his death, and Sophie Dickson, whose girl Princess Dickson took her ain life earlier this year. The presenter will besides effort to get a beryllium down pinch Tattle Life’s publicity-shy owner, who past twelvemonth named publically successful ineligible documents arsenic Sebastian Bond.
Tattle Life says it has a zero-policy to immoderate contented that is abusive, hateful aliases harmful, but did not respond to nan allegations made connected nan program.
“Having publication truthful overmuch online and successful nan news astir Tattle Life, and personally been spoken astir connected it, I wanted to speak to nan group whose lives person been affected by nan comments to understand nan effect they person had,” said Barry.
Rachel Platt, BBC Commissioning Editor, added: “GK Barry might not beryllium your emblematic BBC investigative newsman but that’s precisely what makes her nan cleanable guideline done this story. She brings candour, curiosity and a consciousness of humour to a taxable that’s often thing but funny.”
Colette Foster, exec shaper astatine Full Fat billed Barry’s domiciled arsenic “part investigative sleuth, portion accidental detective.”
