The NHS is facing allegations of an “anti-Semitic rot” after Jewish staff and patients described experiencing abuse while working in, or seeking treatment from, British hospitals.

Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA), a Jewish advocacy organisation, has released interviews with British Jews detailing alleged anti-Semitic incidents within the health service.

Among those accounts, a nurse said a colleague gave a Nazi salute in her presence. A patient alleged that, during surgery, his surgeon told him: “the Jews shoot children in the head or the legs for fun”.

The charity also published polling which suggested that some British Jews fear their religion could affect whether they receive equal treatment through the NHS.

Almost half of respondents said they had taken measures to conceal their Jewish identity since the October 7 attack in Israel.

Stephen Silverman, the CAA’s director of investigations and enforcement, said: “At the very moment when they need the NHS the most, instead of being able to trust our national healthcare provider, Jewish people are having to hide their identity for fear of unequal treatment or abuse.

“As long as that is the case, the NHS cannot be said to be for everyone.”

In the CAA documentary, Malignant: Anti-Semitism in the NHS, Cambridge hospital nurse Shelly Lipman said a healthcare assistant she worked alongside asked about Hebrew calligraphy on her arm. Lipman said she explained that it reflected her Jewish heritage.

She said that when she returned from lunch, she found the colleague “literally holding a Nazi salute … I just felt like my jaw dropped for what felt like an hour”.

‘I was just absolutely gobsmacked. Right next to a patient’s bed as well,’ she added.

Saul Freeman was undergoing surgery to remove potential skin cancer from his forehead, for which he remained awake, when the conversation with his surgeon moved from the price of oil to the war in the Middle East.

‘He went on to say, “and the wars still going on in Gaza, they are still killing children in Gaza”. And he said “you would think they would know better given what happened to them in Europe”,’ to which he clarified ‘them’ as Jewish people, according to Mr Freeman.

The surgeon allegedly went on to say: ‘The Jews should know better…The Jews do it just for fun…They shoot children in the head or the legs for fun, and they do it differently for their own amusement each day.’

Mr Freeman said he felt ‘vulnerable’ while the surgeon was performing the incisions and slipped his star of David under his T-shirt as he ‘didn’t know if he was going to intentionally cause me harm’.

‘I was really aware that he probably had seen that and therefore he knew exactly who he was talking to,’ he added. 

Mr Freeman made a complaint of the incident to Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, which said it would be ‘unable to provide details of any employment investigations, decision, or outcomes relating to individual members of staff’.

Jane McNicholas, chief medical officer at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, told Daily Mail: ‘Mr Freeman has raised his concerns with us and we are reviewing these as a matter of urgency. 

‘We take any allegations of this nature very seriously and will respond accordingly based on the findings of the review.’

One senior Jewish medical professor said he received antisemitic death threats, while other Jewish doctors told CAA they have stopped wearing their name badges when possible to limit the amount of abuse.

Some said they had been ‘aggressively interrogated’ for wearing their stars of David – a religious necklace often worn by Jewish people – while other Jewish doctors have even quit the NHS to become private doctors, which they claim is safer.

‘Most can’t come forward because of the risk to their careers and their livelihoods, and in some cases, even to their safety,’ Mr Silverman explained. 

Adam, a dentist, said many members ‘with Jewish sounding names’ were removed from a professional online chatroom to discuss patients’ problems, following comments from other members to kick ‘Zionists’ out for ‘spying’.

‘We saw discrimination, hate bias, accusations, stereotypes, conspiracy theories all to do with Jews,’ Adam said.

Some members were said to have written, ‘I will never treat a Zionist and I’m glad I don’t treat Jews’. 

A spokesperson for the GDC said: ‘Discrimination has no place in dentistry. Everyone should be treated equally and with respect, whether a patient, member of the public or part of the dental team.

‘All forms of discrimination are inherently serious, and any allegations of this type that are reported to us, will be treated as such.

‘We continue to work with colleagues across healthcare to embed the Mann review recommendations to address antisemitism and other forms of discrimination so that everyone can feel safe at work and when accessing care.’

Another NHS staff member said they had planned to bring in donuts to celebrate Hanukkah, a Jewish holiday, in a similar way as to other religious holidays they had celebrated throughout the year.

She said she was told it was ‘inappropriate to do so due to the current climate’, which the interviewee interpreted as meaning ‘we are going to delete our Jews here’.

She was told by a staff member at a separate event that ‘all Jewish people are racist and because we were Jews, didn’t understand what racism was’.

When the interviewee tried to correct the woman making this statement and argued that Jewish people would understand racism, she said she was called ignorant and the woman ‘lunged across the table at me and tried to grab me’.

Mr Silverman said a Jewish patient was threatened with having his dialysis treatment stopped after he complained about a staff member for wearing a free Palestine T-shirt ‘that erased Israel as a Jewish homeland’.

Another patient said he had boycott Israel stickers placed around his room, according to the CAA. 

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‘I don’t think people want to report because we’re very scared of intimidation, retribution and repercussions. I think if they are reported there is a feeling they won’t go anywhere and it will just be rejected because it is not taken seriously,’ one interviewee said. 

The documentary highlighted suspended NHS doctor Rahmeh Aladwan, who frequently posted about the conflict in Gaza and wrote online ‘the Jews love stealing Palestinian bodies and harvesting their organs as well as tormenting the family’. She was charged with four counts of inviting support for Hamas earlier this year.

Dr Aladwan has also been investigated by the General Medical Council (GMC) after concerns were raised about her fitness to practise, following a series of posts on her now-suspended X account in which she repeatedly talked of ‘Jewish supremacy’, labelled Israelis ‘worst than Nazis’ and described Hamas operatives as ‘oppressed resistance fighters, not terrorists’.

She had been cleared once before after the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service ruled her opinions on social media did not amount to ‘bullying or harassment’.

Those posts included a description of the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, north London, as ‘a Jewish supremacy cesspit’, Israeli people as ‘worse than Nazis’ and the Holocaust as ‘a concept’.

The doctor who complained about her views told CAA that when Dr Aladwan discovered his identity, she would allegedly post often about him online alongside baseless allegations like ‘he rapes small girls’.

The documentary then shared a clip from a meeting of the British Islamic Medical Association in June 2025 which appeared to show senior GMC member, Dr Tista Chakravarty Gannon, saying the regulator was seeing ‘far more complaints around anti-Semitism than we are Islamophobia, and they were far more likely to close them as compared to the general body, if you will, of complaints’.

She added there were no plans to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of anti-Semitism. BIMA has been contacted for comment. 

Other medical professionals mentioned in the documentary include north London GP Dr Abdul Wahid, who was revealed as the long-time chairman of the UK branch of Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir.

In January 2024, the UK Government formally proscribed Hizb ut-Tahrir as a terrorist organisation, making membership or leadership within the group illegal under UK law. Dr Wahid was suspended by NHS England, but was reinstated on appeal and still practices as a GP. 

Meanwhile Dr Abed Alfarra, an emergency medicine specialist with Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, was filmed at a Health Workers 4 Palestine rally telling protesters: ‘Zionists control the media, Zionists control the world.’

The film also included a clip of consultant plastic surgeon Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah telling a rally: ‘After eleven months, it’s clear the Israeli government and the Israeli population have now embraced the final solution…’

In January his views brought him to the attention of the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service, where a hearing cleared him of claims of antisemitism and support for terrorism. The GMC has formally lodged an appeal, with a High Court judicial review expected in January 2027. 

The film also showed Dr Ranjeet Brar, consultant vascular and endovascular surgeon, appearing on Communist Party channel Prol TV, where he said: ‘Who are the other group apart from the Zionists who wanted to say Jewishness was a special genetic makeup? The Nazis.’

In another clip, Dr Rehiana Ali, a consultant neurologist, openly said: ‘I don’t accept Hamas as a terrorist organisation.’ 

Midwife Fatima Mohammed meanwhile appeared in an online conversation saying: ‘Zionism is just illogical, irrational, it’s psychotic’. 

The CAA called the current situation an ‘institutional crisis’.  

Mr Silverman said: ‘Our documentary exposes the anti-Semitic rot at the heart of our NHS. The anecdotal evidence presented in our film, together with the empirical data provided by our polling, demonstrate the magnitude and severity of this institutional crisis.

‘The NHS touches us all at times in our life when we are the most vulnerable. This crisis requires a wide-ranging response that addresses the growing extremist culture within healthcare, the abysmal failure of regulation, the shocking lack of transparency and the total absence of accountability. 

‘We cannot accept politicians pointing to past reviews and recommendations: we need real and robust action now. That is why we are also presenting a detailed plan to address this national scandal. Practitioners, trusts, regulators and others must all act.

‘At the very moment when they need the NHS the most, instead of being able to trust our national healthcare provider, Jewish people are having to hide their identity for fear of unequal treatment or abuse. As long as that is the case, the NHS cannot be said to be for everyone.’

An NHS spokesperson said: ‘The stories highlighted in this documentary show there is unacceptable antisemitism and racism in the NHS, faced by both our staff and our patients and we must root this out.

‘Any form of abuse against NHS staff is totally unacceptable and all local organisations must take a zero-tolerance approach to harassment, discrimination, racism and acts of violence – including police involvement and criminal prosecution where appropriate.

‘The NHS is taking targeted action to support our staff, providing protection and comprehensive psychological support for people reporting concerns, and implementing the recommendations from Lord Mann’s review to tackle antisemitism and other forms of racism in the NHS.’

Sir Jim Mackey, the chief executive of NHS England, previously said: ‘The NHS at its best is a place of compassion, care and unity – not conflict – and there is unacceptable anti-Semitism and racism in the NHS, faced by both our staff and our patients and we must root this out.’

In June, the Department of Health and Social Care said a review into anti-Semitism found some staff experience routine ostracism and had even considered leaving the NHS. 

Lord Mann, who led the review, called on the NHS to be ‘a responsible and inclusive employer’. The Government’s independent adviser on anti-Semitism also made a series of recommendations.

In a separate review published in July 2025, Lord Mann and former Conservative minister Dame Penny Mordaunt warned of rising anti-Semitism across British society, including a ‘specific issue’ within the NHS.

Mandatory anti-racism training, specifically including anti-Semitism, will be put in place for NHS bosses and trust chairmen within six months.

Meanwhile mandatory training on equality, diversity and human rights, which is already in place for NHS staff, will be updated to include ‘quality assured content’ on anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim hostility, the department added.

Lord Mann said: ‘Jewish people have to be confident that they will receive the same treatment as everyone else, at all times, in all situations.

‘If people feel, as they do, that some have to hide their identity as patients or suffer in silence as staff, then the universality of the NHS is fundamentally breached.

‘The solutions are simple but require a consistency of approach across the whole of the NHS and clear leadership at the top.’

Wisconsin Congressman Tom Tiffany has described the harrowing seconds before the four-seat plane he was traveling in crashed into a lake, saying the pilot abruptly warned him they were going down and gave him only moments to brace for impact.

The Republican lawmaker and gubernatorial candidate said the aircraft was preparing to land in Wausau, Wisconsin, on Saturday night when the pilot turned to him and instructed him to tighten his seat belt.

‘As we were making that final turn before we were going to approach for landing, the pilot turned to me and said, “Tom, we are going down, pull your seat belt as tight as possible,”‘ Tiffany told Fox News on Monday night.

‘And it was like staring into the abyss. And you don’t know how far down it is.’

Tiffany said he pulled his seat belt as tight as possible shortly before the plane went down in Lake Wausau.

‘Get This Door Open’ 

‘I pulled that seat belt as tight as I could and it was just a couple seconds later, we hit the water and we hit it hard,’ he said.

Despite the force of the impact, the aircraft remarkably remained intact and stayed afloat.

‘The plane stayed upright, thankfully as a result of the skilled work of the pilot, and we looked at each other and said, “Are you okay?”‘ Tiffany recalled.

But with the damaged plane sitting in the lake and starting to sink, Tiffany said they had little time to get out in the darkness.

‘When we were both okay I just said to him, “Get this door open,” because, you know, the door was right there on my side in the copilot’s seat,’ he explained.

The pair managed to force their way out before swimming away from the stricken aircraft and toward the shoreline.

‘We got the door open, got out and the rest from there, we were able to be saved by the local law enforcement as well as the first responders,’ Tiffany said.

‘I can’t thank them enough for what they did, but it’s by the grace of God that we are here today.’

12 Stitches and Power Loss 

Tiffany said the entire sequence unfolded so rapidly that he has struggled to recall the individual moments.

‘It happened really quickly,’ he said. ‘And we were out of that plane I think really quickly. And, you know, you just try to piece it back together but it just happened so quickly.’

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The congressman escaped with a gash above his eye that required 12 stitches, while the pilot needed four stitches.

‘Each of us had very minor injuries. Once again thanks to the grace of God,’ Tiffany said. ‘This is the only injury I have.’

The dramatic account came two days after Tiffany first revealed he had survived the crash while returning home from the La Crosse County Lincoln Day Dinner.

He said the four-seat Bonanza lost power as it approached Wausau Downtown Airport, forcing the pilot to attempt an emergency landing on the lake.

‘We Swam to Shallow Water’ 

‘While returning home from the La Crosse County Lincoln Day Dinner tonight, the plane I was traveling in lost power as we approached the Wausau Downtown Airport,’ Tiffany wrote on Facebook after the ordeal.

‘The pilot made an emergency water landing in Lake Wausau. After landing, we called 911,’ Tiffany wrote. ‘As the plane began to submerge, we exited the aircraft and swam to a shallow area, where we waited until emergency responders reached us by boat.’ 

The Marathon County Sheriff’s Office and Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources responded to the scene.

Tiffany and the pilot were taken from the water and transported to Aspirus Wausau Hospital for treatment.

The congressman later thanked those involved in the dramatic rescue, saying first responders ‘got us safely off the water and transported us to Aspirus Wausau Hospital, where we received excellent care.’

Polls Tied at 44% 

Exactly what caused the aircraft to lose power remains under investigation.

Tiffany, a Republican, has represented Wisconsin’s 7th Congressional District since 2020, winning the seat previously held by Sean Duffy, who resigned from Congress in 2019 and now serves as President Donald Trump’s Transportation Secretary.

Tiffany is now the Republican nominee for Wisconsin governor and is set to face Democrat David Crowley in November.

A Marquette Law School poll published at the end of August showed the two tied at 44 percent of support each among respondents who were registered voters. 12 percent of registered voter respondents to the poll were undecided.

Wisconsin’s 7th congressional district has been represented by Republicans for the last 15 years.

A Hawaii man survived an eight-hour ordeal in raging floodwaters after being swept away during Hurricane Lowell.

Trent Parke, 47, had taken steps to protect his home in Wainiha, a small Kauai community, in the days before Hurricane Lowell reached the area on September 7, SF Gate reported.

Parke told the outlet that he moved whatever he could to higher ground at his property, which sits alongside the seven-mile-long Wainiha River.

The local tattoo artist said he also took precautions after emergency officials issued an alert advising residents of oceanfront properties to voluntarily evacuate.

Though his home was not near the ocean, Parke moved his truck to higher ground, hurried to turn off his off-grid power system, changed into a wetsuit top and sealed valuables, including his phone and keys, inside a plastic bag.

When he returned to his truck at about 7.30pm, however, the river was already rapidly rising, Parke said.

‘I was walking on the far side of my property to get out, and it was just like about a 3-foot difference of water,’ Parke stated.

‘At that point, I had to swim back to my house because it was the only way to go.’

After making his way there, Parke climbed over the railing and onto his deck, which is around eight feet above the ground. 

He hoped that the water would start to pull back, but it continued to rise. 

Parke went on to climb onto the roof of his deck, which is around 16ft above the ground. 

Large trees then started to float upstream, and pieces of his beloved home started to break away one by one. 

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‘I know at this point, I’m going to be diving in for a swim soon. I am not looking down at my art studio. Water just keeps rising faster and faster,’ Parke shared. 

As mayhem quickly surrounded him, Parke found a hau bush plant and latched on. The thick tree grows horizontally and can reach up to 33ft tall. 

But the trees were no match for Mother Nature after two of them slammed into the home and started to break, leaving Parke to jump back into the intense water.

‘When I hit the water, I knew I had to swim as hard as I could in any chance to hit that section of hau bush. In a blur, I was there and I got a hold of one of the thicker branches,’ he stated, adding that at that point, he was in his neighbor’s yard.

While trying to save himself, Parke said he watched as the house he built floated right past him. 

Suddenly, the bush broke off, forcing him back into the raging river. 

That caused him to hit his head and back on a log, and threw him underwater.  

After resurfacing, he grabbed onto another branch and told himself he had to stay where he was in order to survive. 

Parke remained there until 4am, fighting off hypothermia before running into four others who had escaped the water. 

Eventually, he found his truck and his home, which was thrown some 30 to 50 yards downstream onto another property, Parke said. 

Now, Parke is staying with neighbors and trying to figure out what is next after losing everything he had, according to a GoFundMe page. 

Kentucky Republican Thomas Massie, who was defeated this year in a contentious primary by a Trump-backed challenger, has now set his sights on Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.

During remarks on the House floor Tuesday afternoon, Massie accused Hegseth of committing “high crimes and misdemeanors” by continuing US military operations in Iran without Congress formally declaring a conflict in the region.

Massie introduced a privileged resolution, a procedural tool that bypasses the usual committee process and compels the House to hold a vote on the issue.

The Kentucky lawmaker employed the same tactic last year to force a vote on releasing the Epstein Files, resisting calls from Republican leadership to abandon his push for greater transparency.

Pentagon Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson defended Hegseth in a statement to the Daily Mail, saying: “Secretary Hegseth has been a transformative leader for the Department of War. Standards and merit are back, our arsenal is stronger than ever before, and morale and recruitment across every service are at all-time highs.”

“Secretary Hegseth has slashed bureaucracy, unleashed innovation, and delivered for our warfighters every step of the way. By every measurable metric, the Department of War is better under President Trump and Secretary Hegseth’s leadership than before. The entire Department is unified behind the Secretary’s vision and will continue working to put our warfighters and America first,” Wilson added.

The clash follows Hegseth’s intervention in Kentucky’s primary campaign, an extraordinary move for a senior military official.

In May, Hegseth made a last-minute visit to Massie’s district to endorse Ed Gallrein, whose campaign largely avoided media scrutiny.

‘President Trump needs reinforcements, and that’s what war fighters do. They stand behind leaders and have their back,’ Hegseth said about Massie in May while stumping for Gallrein.

‘Too often, Thomas Massie has acted like his job is to stand apart from the movement that President Trump leads, instead of strengthening it. When President Trump needs backup, Massie wants to debate process.’

‘At some point, being against everything becomes an excuse for accomplishing nothing. At some point, constant obstruction is not leadership. It’s just commentary. It’s obstruction. President Trump does not need more people in Washington who are trying to make a point,’ Hegseth said.

‘When conservatives are fighting the most radical left in American history, too often Massie’s instinct is to throw elbows at fellow Republicans instead of the people who are destroying our country or want to destroy our country.’

The secretary said at the time that he was speaking ‘as a private citizen’ — and not as a member of Trump’s Cabinet. There was no known precedent for a sitting defense secretary actively campaigning for a congressional candidate.

The former Fox News host is a top target of House Democrats who have stirred an uproar about his handling of the Iran war, his central involvement in the SignalGate scandal and his countless strikes in the Caribbean.

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‘Hegseth got us into an illegal and costly war in Iran which we are losing. He has fired generals capriciously and ordered the killing of fishermen in the Caribbean,’ Democratic Representative Ro Khanna of California told the Daily Mail. ‘He should be impeached.’

All impeachments start in the House, which Democrats are forecast to win this November.

That would hand them the power to subpoena Trump administration officials and drag them before Congress under oath.

Similar to Trump’s first term, when former Speaker Nancy Pelosi maneuvered to foil Trump’s final two years and even brought two impeachments against him, Democrats are planning another wave of resistance.

However, not all on the left are determined that impeachment is the proper path forward, should it become an option. But most are salivating at holding Trump and his posse’s feet to the flames.

‘Pete Hegseth has got to go,’ Congressman Jason Crow, who serves on the House panels overseeing the CIA and Pentagon, told the Daily Mail.

‘Democrats won’t hesitate to use very tool available to hold the Defense Secretary accountable,’ he added, without expounding on whether he has the appetite for impeachment.

He and others have accused Army veteran Hegseth of being ‘incompetent’ and ‘unfit’ to serve as secretary.

Lawmakers on the left have accused him of politicizing the Pentagon, firing experienced generals, and jeopardizing service members by ‘recklessly’ sharing classified information.

‘Pete Hegseth is an unqualified, narcissistic, wannabe Chief of War,’ Democrat Jill Tokuda of Hawaii, another member of the House Armed Services Committee, told the Mail.

‘Similar to what this administration did to others, his picture should be stripped from the wall of the Pentagon, he should face charges domestically and globally for crimes against humanity.’

It is not just liberal lawmakers who disapprove of Hegseth, the latest Quinnipiac Poll found that he has a 57 percent disapproval rating compared to 32 percent approval.

The secretary’s net -25 rating has plummeted since the beginning of the Iran conflict, when the same pollster found Hegseth then had a -9 point approval.

Days after actress Sydney Sweeney appeared nude while juggling sports balls in advertisements for betting company Novig, criticism has emerged from female athletes, who argue the campaign diminishes the work and achievements of women in sport.

British sprinter Amy Hunt, who won a record four gold medals at last month’s European Championships in Birmingham, was among the first to respond. During a televised post-race interview at another event this week, she said: ‘It was incredible to be part of such an incredible race. Sydney Sweeney, this is what women’s sport looks like.

‘Obviously we’ve seen in the last 24 hours everything about the Sydney Sweeney ad, you know, and when you’re a woman in sport, it’s not pretty. It’s not glamorous. It’s not sexy all the time, definitely.’

The response raised questions about whether Hunt felt overshadowed by the actress’s campaign, particularly after finishing fourth in the 200m at the inaugural World Athletics Ultimate Championships in Budapest on Sunday. Sweeney’s Novig advert had gone viral, attracting 37million Instagram views in only four days.

Yet Sweeney does not present herself as an athlete at any stage of the minute-long commercial. Her nearest nod to sporting ability comes as she playfully uses a tennis racquet to cover herself and shields her breasts with two rugby balls.

She is naked and plays with a football, basketball, tennis ball and even a snooker ball, but the advert’s apparent joke is directed at men spending money through betting apps rather than at women’s sport.

Nevertheless, the backlash continued, with Australian Olympic swimmer Ariarne Titmus among those expressing anger over the Novig campaign. She said: ‘I can’t describe how infuriated I feel when I watch this.

‘Not only is it a kick in the face to every woman who has dedicated her life to perfecting her craft, but every woman who enjoys sports for what it really is – teamwork, friendship, dedication, excellence, unity.’

How very pious.

It’s as if these female athletes occupy some high moral ground that actresses like Sydney shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near. There is a horrible stench of snobbery around their reactions. And dare I say a hint of pure jealousy, even misogyny?

They may have honed their athletic skills for years, but they need to work on their sense of humour and respect for other successful women.

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Sydney has worked her guts out for her career, starting acting at the age of 11. This girl from a very working-class background deserves other women’s admiration rather than their scorn, for she’s at the top of her game aged 29, and one of the most sought-after and highest-paid actresses in the world, having appeared in hit TV shows Euphoria and The White Lotus and several films.

She’s also a sassy, skilled businesswoman who’s so sure in herself she’s happy to court controversy. Remember that American Eagle jeans campaign last year when she appeared provocatively dressed in denim as a male voice intoned: ‘Sydney Sweeney has great jeans’?

The sisterhood went into meltdown, reached for the smelling salts and, somewhat risibly, accused the actress of promoting eugenics. Yet American Eagle’s sales soared.

Now she’s at it again, proving her commercial worth, weathering the backlash and watching the money roll in. It so happens Sydney is an equity partner in Novig.

We should all salute her – and for what it’s worth, as I wrote in my Mail column last Saturday after the ad appeared, I think she looks sensational.

Isn’t all this outrage an insult not just to Sydney but all working women? Isn’t the feminist mantra ‘a woman’s right to choose’?

Of course, Sydney hasn’t taken any of this lying down – well, actually, she is lying down in a couple of the shots – and has hit back by posting pictures online of famous sportswomen including Serena Williams, Ronda Rousey, Sue Bird, Megan Rapinoe and Caroline Wozniacki posing semi-naked for promo pictures.

A short Google search and you’ll find many more. Crikey, several Olympic athletes have their own OnlyFans accounts such is their modesty! Four German Olympic female stars all posed together in the nuddy for the cover of their country’s edition of Playboy.

And I haven’t even mentioned the overtly sexy ‘sportswear‘ of the Olympic beach volleyball teams.

The good news for Sydney, as she bats off this attack on her character with such panache, is that the controversy has turned Novig, hitherto an unknown brand, into a household name.

Forget all the gold medals – she’s the real winner in this storm in a 32DD cup. And I hope she’s laughing all the way to the bank.