GB News star lashes out at BBC's Dara O'Briain over shocking migrant sex attack remark

GB News star Patrick Christys lost it in an online row with BBC comedian Dara O'Briain after the Mock the Week star made controversial remarks about migrants and child sex abuse. When Tesla boss Elon Musk claimed quiet English villages are seeing "thousands of people showing up and raping the kids", Dara responded with a controversial tweet.

Musk said on the Joe Rogan Experience: "These lovely small towns in England, Scotland, Ireland, they've been like living their lives quietly. They're like hobbits, frankly. In fact, JRR Tolkien based the hobbits on people he knew in small-town England because they were just like lovely people who like to smoke their pipe, have nice meals, and everything is pleasant.

"He was talking about places like Hertfordshire, the shire around the Greater London area, Oxfordshire type of thing. But the reason they've been able to enjoy the shire is because hard men have protected them from the dangers of the world.

"But since they have almost no exposure to the dangers of the world, they don't realise, until one day, a thousand people show up in your village of 500 out of nowhere and start raping the kids. That has now happened God knows how many times in Britain."

Dara responded to the segment on X, tweeting: "This is genuinely insane. I mean, just worryingly divorced from any reality. How desperate are people to believe this nonsense?"

When he was met with baffled responses, Dara questioned: "Raping the kids? Sorry? When did that happen?"

Given the grooming gang scandal enveloping the UK, Patrick Christys decided to step in, tweeting: "I still can't believe he hasn't deleted this."

Dara did eventually delete the tweet, clarifying: "Thanks for the reminder Patrick. It was actually specifically about Newtownmountkennedy in Wicklow, but pretty pointless to explain that, when people are so eager to believe the worst."

He added: "A lot of people getting very angry here about a quote from me, which is actually a reply to a very specific conversation about a town in Ireland. I am well aware that people will just ignore this clarification and believe what they want; but that's the actual context."