Sam Newman controversy explodes

Sam Newman and 'neo-Nazi' Blair Cottrell have come to blows online in the wake of fierce backlash over a controversial podcast. 

Newman found himself under heavy scrutiny on Monday after sharing a photo with two men -  Thomas Sewell and Blair Cottrell - in promotion of the latest episode of his You Cannot Be Serious podcast. 

Part one of the episode was released on Tuesday, which saw Newman quickly turn on Cottrell online. 

Newman elaborates how he had sought out Sewell for a conversation but notes Cottrell had “accompanied him” and that he “wasn’t invited”.

“I interviewed two people I thought were of interest because I had never heard of them until the media kept showing them coming out of court and putting them in the paper,” Newman said.

“I reached out to one of them, I reached out to a bloke called Thomas Sewell and I said ‘would you like to come in and be interviewed?’. A man accompanied him called Blair Cottrell who wasn’t invited, he was an interloper."

“He sat where you are Ivan and he turned out to be a turd, he turned out to be an opportunist. He posted today that maybe the Foss was one of us all along or something like that."

“Blair is a scumbag. He is a 24-carat gold scumbag."

“As I said he wasn’t invited and he thought he is a star f***er. He thought he would link me to his cause and he’s posted pictures of me on the Footy Show and then put Nazi photos in the background trying to link me to his cause."

“Thomas Sewell was responsible, as in he was here because I asked him to be here."

“Cottrell turned up and in his pissy little world that he lives in, his diminutive pissy little world where he can’t make it on his own he tries to link people with stronger juices. He’s a parasite. So that’s him."

“I have plenty of people who are friends of mine who are Jewish and many who are Muslim, I do not have any friends who are Nazis or neo-Nazis. None.”

The remarks from Newman didn’t sit well with Cottrell who took to social media to share his side of the story. 

He explained that he drove Sewell to the podcast studio, and after meeting Newman, he was invited to sit in on the recording and chime in to the conversation. 

“Now Sam is apparently declaring me an uninvited interloper and that I somehow took advantage of him," Cottrell wrote. 

“If Sam wants to play it safe in the future, he should stick to platforming drug dealers, prostitutors and murderers, he won’t cop any flak for that because these characters are no serious threat to the establishment. You wanted controversy Sam, and you got it.”

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