Who is Milo Yiannopoulos? Right-wing upstart turns on Trump
Conspiracy theorist disowns Donald Trump after suffering "brutality" from ICE during deportation to UK
Milo Yiannopoulos has turned on his former idol, Donald Trump, after being subjected to the "brutal" deportation procedure that he once advocated for.
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The far-right agitator told Piers Morgan that he was "really, really terrified" to be detained by US immigration officials.
The 41-year-old was returned to the UK on Friday after being arrested at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport in Louisiana on Thursday, having failed to appear at an immigration hearing.
Yiannopoulos was born in Chatham, Kent, but had been living in the US since the early 2010s.
He said: “I don’t think I’ve ever been frightened like that before. For the first time I know what it feels like to be really, really terrified."
He added: “If I had any clue that anything remotely like this was even possible, I would never have gotten involved in supporting Trump in the first place, and I’m very ashamed that I did.”
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Who is Milo Yiannopoulos?
The self-defined "most fabulous supervillain on the internet” is a far-right activist and conspiracy theorist who has campaigned on issues such as feminism, Islam, and immigrants.
After being expelled from sixth form education and also from university, he had roles in his own news writing ventures before becoming technology editor for the far-right Breitbart News.
He resigned from the company in 2017 after a video of him endorsing paedophilia resurfaced online, while also being accused of supporting neo-Nazi causes.
He was removed from Twitter and also Facebook, the former for racially abusing the actress Leslie Jones and the latter for promoting hate speech. His Twitter profile has since been reinstated.
More recently, he has worked for Kanye West and as an intern for former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene.
What are his views?
Yiannopoulos had been a supporter of Donald Trump, whom he had called "Daddy", and was especially keen on his immigration crackdown, tweeting: “Zero immigration for the next 20 years. No ifs, no buts."
He was also a champion of anti-LGBT causes, despite being in a relationship with a man for the best part of 20 years. Yiannopoulos, who is said to be divorcing his former husband, has organised a "straight pride" festival, advocated for other countries not to legalise same-sex marriage, and has also supported gay conversion therapy.
Yiannopoulos, who says he is of Catholic faith, has attacked feminists and Islam in the past. He stopped working with Kanye West in 2024 when the rapper wanted to add pornography to his portfolio, but rejoined with Ye in 2026.