A charity boss, a drag star, and an actress have launched legal proceedings against actor-turned-activist Laurence Fox. The lawsuit is brought by Simon Blake, deputy chair of LGBT charity Stonewall, RuPaul's Drag Race star Crystal, and Coronation Street actress Nicola Thorp after a Twitter spat with Fox in 2020.
In October 2020, Mr Blake and Crystal had threatened to sue Fox after they had a row on Twitter, with Fox calling them "paedophiles".
In a separate Twitter thread, Fox also labelled Ms Thorp as a "paedophile". Fox was embroiled in the heated exchange after he accused Sainsbury's of "promoting racial segregation and discrimination" following the supermarket's Black History Month campaign last year.
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