Louis Smith's two-month ban from gymnastics for appearing to mock Islam risks fuelling religious hate, according to a leading Muslim lawyer.

Olympic silver medallist Louis Smith has been suspended for two months by British Gymnastics over a controversial video leaked online that showed him mocking Islam.

Charles Walker voiced fury during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons - insisting Smith would not have been punished for sending up Christianity.

According to The Sun, the 27-year-old Olympian is reportedly already in training for the winter sports show in Austria - just weeks after being banned from gymnastics for offensive video.

In 2014 Louis Smith was left red-faced after a solo sex tape emerged on a porn site.

It seems the Twitter feud between Iggy Azalea and Guy Sebastian is far from over. 

The Late Show host posted video of a faux interview with Lochte on Tuesday that included the answers the Olympian gave Lauer but this time with questions being asked by Colbert.

Instagram sensation Tammy Hembrow represented Australia at the MTV Video Music Awards in Newark, New Jersey on Monday night. 

His humour has brought him legions of fans. And Lewis Capaldi has again taken the opportunity to jokingly retort to someone who criticised him and Ed Sheeran on Twitter.

Paul joked that he'd been losing sleep at night over the former Secretary of State's financial affairs and asked the audience to take a 'moment of silence' for her wealth.

Paul is already trying to score points for the next election cycle by painting Tuesday night's losses as a failure for Clinton - even though she wasn't on the ballot in any state.

An Iowa Republican Party official says the senator's claims to Washington-outsider status 'won't sell in Iowa, especially since he's walking his views back toward the center.'

DEJA VU? Eight days before Trump rival Rick Perry dropped out on September 11, The Donald publicly predicted it – and Perry issued a vehement denial.

Rand Paul, a Republican senator, ripped into Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani on Monday as he participated in a part serious, part sarcastic 'airing of grievances.'

Matt Preston is used to dishing out critiques as one of MasterChef Australia's judges.

While MasterChef is supposed to be about spotting the rising star amongst amateur cooks, it seems that fans are more preoccupied with watching the judges eat.

MasterChef judge Matt Preston, 54, is known for his bold and eclectic taste in fashion.

MasterChef judge Matt Preston is known for his bold and eclectic taste in fashion. 

The MasterChef finale entered the realm of the truly bizarre on Tuesday night.  

MasterChef viewers have mercilessly mocked George Calombaris over a 2017 scandal in which he was accused of underpaying his staff.

Poh Ling Yeow nailed the mystery box challenge on Wednesday night's episode of MasterChef Australia, but not without some of her signature cooking issues. 

Fashion fans and influencers from across the UK are raving about the black-and-white checked dress from New Look, with many saying they 'need' it for their summer wardrobes.

Amber Heard ridicules Johnny Depp for claiming he is a victim of domestic violence in an explosive tape recording from 2016, exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com.

Candice Warner, then known as Candice Falzon, was involved in a toilet tryst with dual-code star Sonny Bill Williams in a Sydney pub in 2007. Warner has been in a spat with rival Quinton de Kock.

A Chinese website has angrily mocked rugby union and league star Sonny Bill Williams for speaking out against the Communist superpower's treatment of its Muslim Uyghur minority.

The San Diego, California native collaborated with Hitman Holla, Charlie Clips and Prince Eazy on the track, which featured an intro from incarcerated rap icon Suge Knight calling Eminem 'a b****.'

Savannah, 47, took to Instagram during the men's Wimbledon final on Sunday to share a photo of herself wearing a baseball cap with Roger's initials, prompting her husband to tease her.

President Trump told the rally in North Carolina last night: 'They're going to put [Biden] into a home and other people are going to be running the country and they're going to be super left radical crazies.'

Donald Trump skewered his critics and toasted his own success on Twitter as Super Tuesday results rolled in from across the nation, taking particular aim at both Warren and Bloomberg.

Adley Stump, a singer and former contestant on The Voice, shared her  coronavirus rules in the parody video she shared on social media.

It has been a tumultuous week for Chelsea off the pitch with the row between Jose Mourinho and Eva Caneiro and Jon Fearn but the players seem to be unaffected.

Khan has been scathing of Mayweather's upcoming New Year's Eve exhibition bout against 5ft 4in Japanese fighter Tenshin Nasukawa, calling it a 'joke', but now Mayweather has hit back at the Brit.

The long-standing rivalry between England and Scotland means many Scots support whichever team is playing against their south of the border neighbours.

Youfoodz founder Lance Giles and his fiancee Jordana Stott filmed themselves mocking Asian people in Singapore.

CEO of Youfoodz Lance Giles and Jordana Stott, from Brisbane , were in Singapore over the weekend for the Global Restaurant Leadership summit.

A new production of Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird, adapted by Aaron Sorkin, which is a hit on Broadway, will open in the West End in the spring, writes BAZ BAMIGBOYE.

Former Labour MP for Barnsley East Michael Dugher took to Twitter after Jeremy Corbyn's New Year message to compare the leader to Japanese soldier Hiroo Onoda.

Donald Trump swatted back at his former presidential rival Hillary Clinton on Tuesday after she said in a speech that he was wrong about Germany's crime rate.

The TV host was inundated with complaints from British and American viewers alike after laughing and stifling giggles while presenting a segment about the young royal.

Patricia Ward Kelly penned an open letter on Friday in response to the GMA segment, in which Spencer held back laughter after mentioning the six-year-old is taking ballet lessons.

The TV host admitted she 'screwed up', calling her reaction 'insensitive' and 'stupid', main. Lara had stifled giggles, top inset, while talking about George, bottom inset, and his dance classes.

Londoners are getting riled up about the latest TfL announcements which inform travellers that their bus is about to move, but often only once the bus is already travelling away from the stop.

Donald Trump leveled a new attack at Hillary Clinton in Cincinnati, recalling her physical collapse on Sept. 11 in New York. He said she couldn't negotiate with China because 'these are tough people.'

Demi Boonham, from Lichfield in Staffordshire spotted Tesco selling a bottle of Sainsbury's squash amid their own-brand bottles, and shared a snap of the blunder to Facebook.

Millions of Australians have been forced to go without their regular filler and Botox injections amid the COVID-19 pandemic.  

Joe Biden on Wednesday mocked his recent spat of gaffes - including his miscounting of a story about awarding a medal to a soldier in Afghanistan - in an interview with Stephen Colbert.

On an Instagram Live on Friday, Liam Payne and Niall Horan linked up from their respective homes for a catch up broadcast to their millions of fans.

'Mini Mike, you're easy!' Trump tweeted on Thursday, along with a GIF showing Bloomberg's face superimposed on Dark Helmet, the stunted villain of the sci-fi parody film.

He's the funniest and most outspoken contestant on this season of My Kitchen Rules. 

Greta Thunberg, 16, changed her Twitter biography after Vladimir Putin called her 'a poorly informed teenager' who was being 'used by adults' at an energy forum in Moscow on Wednesday.