It’s been a tumultuous year for news.
As 2024 comes to an end, GB News is now reflecting on some of the highlights. Here we reflect on GB News presenter Gloria de Piero’s year.
One interview stands out above all others for its bravery: Natalie’s Fleet’s admission that she’d become pregnant aged 15 after being a victim of grooming stunned Westminster.
Talking publicly about what happened wasn’t easy. But Natalie, the Labour MP for Bolsover, decided to speak out in a bid to help other victims take that crucial first step towards getting support.
And it was GB News’ imperious journalist Gloria De PIerio who she trusted with her story.
Through her series Gloria Meets, the former Labour MP, has developed a reputation for agenda-setting interviews with MPs and political figures from across all parties.
Unlike other interviewers who focus on “gotcha, soundbite moments”, Gloria focuses on having a conversation with her guests. And time and time again it delivers extraordinary revelations.
In her interview with Natalie which was broadcast in July, the newly-elected MP told how, two decades on from the attack, she still had “weekly nightmares” about what happened.
But she told how the daughter she’d given birth to had become the “love of her life”.
The MP opened up on her experience to GB News’s Gloria De PieroGB NewsExplaining her fears that many women were suffering and unable to get the support they needed, she vowed to use her platform as a catalyst for change.
She said: “I could either be angry about what’s happened over the past 14 years, sad and feel powerless, or I could come into Parliament and try and do something about it. I mean, what an honour.”
Natalie’s interview also exposed criticism often leveled at GB News by its critics, that the channel only provides a platform and a voice to those on the right of British politics.
In reality, thanks in no small part to the tireless work Gloria has been doing, soaring numbers of Labour and left-wing voices now regularly appear on GB News. And all are a valued and much-loved part of the GB News family.
Gloria De Piero appearing on the channel this Xmas
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Ms Fleet’s GB News interview became one of the most followed stories the channel has seen in the past 12 months.
It was featured and followed in more than 250 rival outlets, across print, broadcast and online. Weeks after she sat down with GB News, Ms Fleet appeared in the Times newspaper. She was later interviewed by BBC’s Newsnight.
It means her story, first told to GB News, has now been read, seen and heard by millions. And that will help bring hope and support to the victims of grooming who Natalie will continue to fight for.