The TV host is investigating women's safety in a series of hard-hitting must-watch documentaries on cyberstalking, rough sex and incels.
, because the whole situation was not one I ever wanted to be in,’ Laura Whitmore recalls of stepping in for her friend, TV presenter Caroline Flack, who had been arrested. ‘I was covering for a friend and there was a court case going on, press everywhere, it was very noisy. At the same time, I’m trying to make this glitzy show that’s meant to be fun and uplifting.’ A few months later, Flack died by suicide. ‘Then the worst thing that can possibly happen happened.
The choice of topics – all around women’s safety and misogyny online – is certainly timely. When we speak, the second episode ofhas just aired, and online discourse is rife about the normalisation of rough sex in popular culture. At the same time, the misogynist Andrew Tate, who is often accused of emboldening incels by posting sexist content online, has just been charged with rape, human trafficking and forming an organised crime group to sexually exploit women .
It was the incel documentary Laura pitched to ITV first, a gripping 60-minute episode where she interviews self-confessed involuntary celibates with an all-female crew . Was she scared going into filming it?
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