BBC slams claims make-up artists put 'bodily fluids' on Nigel Farage's face

Nige Farage vowed he will boycott the BBC after he was asked on Question Time whether his Reform UK party 'attracts racists and extremists' by then Green Party Co-leader Adrian Ramsay Nigel Farage is the leader of Reform UK (Image: PA)

The BBC has denied claims make-up artists painted Nigel Farage's face with "bodily fluids". Historian and previous BBC presenter Lisa Hilton alleged the Reform UK leader's make-up was applied with contaminated brushes.

Writing in The Critic Magazine, Hilton claimed a "morning news veteran" told her about it. She said: "Naming no names, but Nigel Farage might want to start doing his own face, given the extraordinarily imaginative range of natural cosmetics which the brushes are loaded with when he's in the chair."

The "natural cosmetics" include