Controversial chef Pete Evans has been dropped by the Ten Network and his long-time book publisher amid a storm of controversy after he posted a meme to social media that featured a neo-Nazi symbol known as the Black Sun.
The Facebook post was enough for Pan Macmillan, which had published 15 books by Evans, to cut ties with the former My Kitchen Rules host.
By Tuesday morning, Channel 10 had followed suit and dumped Evans as host of I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here!, for which he had only just been reportedly confirmed as a contestant in the new season.
“Network 10 can confirm that Pete Evans will not be appearing on this season of I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here!” a Ten spokesperson told news.com.au early on Tuesday.
The paleo advocate has since removed the post in question, which showed the Black Sun symbol on the wing of a seated, black butterfly.
The symbol appeared on the floor at Germany’s Wewelsburg Castle, which Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler transformed into a cult site used to instil the hateful ideologies of Adolf Hitler into the minds of SS officers.
The Black Sun symbol also appeared on the backpack of the Christchurch mosque shooter.
When a Facebook user commented that “the symbol of the butterfly is a representation of the black sun”, Evans wrote back “I was waiting for someone to see that”.
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