The journalist Ava Evans has described the on-air comments made about her by Laurence Fox on GB News as “unforgivable”. Fox was suspended by the channel after the actor-turned-politician made a series of comments about the political correspondent on Tuesday, including suggesting no one would want to “shag” her. The programme’s host, Dan Wootton, was also suspended, and the channel confirmed on Friday that Calvin Robinson had been suspended after showing support on social media for his fellow presenter. Evans, who works for the Politics Joe website, told the Daily Mail: “It would have been horrible for a woman to hear she was being discussed in those terms in the pub. “I’m not naive. I know that men talk like that about women. But this was on national TV. It was demeaning. It was dehumanising. “As if it was an option for him to have sex with me. As if men get to look at you and decide if they want to ... Unforgivable.” She said the worst part of the experience had been explaining it to her father. “My dad was just confused. He said: ‘But why would he say this? Have you dated him?’ He just didn’t get it,” she said. “My parents didn’t go to university. They have ordinary jobs and have always been so proud of what I do and have achieved. “Why should my choice of career – political reporting – mean I have to contend with this?” The former producer for LBC radio said if she had been working on Tuesday’s Dan Wootton Tonight show, she would have acted to stop the comments. “If I had been the producer on that show and the presenter wasn’t listening to commands to shut it down, I would have taken that show off the air, no question. It should never have been allowed to go as far as it did.” Evans told the Daily Mail the messages and threats she had received since the incident had made her fear for her safety. She criticised the Conservative party MP Lee Anderson for the way he had publicised an interview with the home secretary, Suella Braverman, on GB News but had not commented on Fox’s remarks about her. “This is an elected representative and he hasn’t said anything publicly, or to me, and I know him. I have worked with him. “I felt it showed contempt, really. By not saying anything, does he agree that it was OK to sexualise me? “What am I supposed to think when I meet him in the office, or the parliamentary bar? And this isn’t about me. It’s about every woman working in the lobby.” The GB News chief executive, Angelos Frangopolous, said on Friday he was “appalled” by the remarks, telling BBC Radio 4’s Today programme they should not have gone to air. He issued a personal apology to Evans, saying: “[The comments] did not reflect what we believe is appropriate conversation as a media company, as a part of the national conversation, it really is an apology, it was just really inappropriate.” He said GB News had a “process to follow” in dealing with the suspended men but he expected the internal investigation to be “resolved very quickly”. MailOnline announced on Thursday that it had terminated its contract with Wootton, who was a columnist for the site. Wootton issued an apology to Evans, suggesting he should have intervened during the broadcast, while Fox said he was “sorry for demeaning” the journalist.