After a 44-year broadcasting career, Steve Allen, the legendary plain-speaking London early breakfast talk radio host, has suddenly left LBC, his contract cancelled with immediate effect.

Although LBC claims his contract was nearly over, and that he has left the station "following discussions" - and Allen says the same publicly - the fact is that the much-loved broadcaster disappeared from LBC's schedules after refusing to call singer Sam Smith 'they' instead of 'him'. 

Therefore it's highly likely that he has been removed from his position in the name of political correctness - and we must take a stand against this. In the name of freedom of speech, and to show those who have cancelled him - just for expressing his own opinion - that they cannot win.

Here's the evidence:

Thursday 16 February 2023:

Allen indicates to his listeners that his contract has years to run. He says that if he won the lottery, "I’d definitely come into work. I’ve got to. I’m on contract… I’m going to work out the contract, even though it is years in advance.”

Friday 17 February 2023: His final broadcast:

Allen says that he "couldn't give a rat's tail" about singer Sam Smith wanting to be called them instead of him. (Smith, 30, non-binary since 2019, wore nipple clamps in his latest sexually explicit music video). 

What led to it:

Smith recently said on the BBC's The One Show that he'd like to be a 'fisherthem', and the presenter said 'a fisherman?'

Fisherman is actually a gender-neutral word. The Oxford English dictionary defines a fisherman as 'a PERSON who catches fish for a living or for sport.'

LBC headquarters, Leicester Square, WC2 (Picture credit: Paul Campaigns)

What Allen said on his subsequent radio show of 17 February:

“And then there was another thing the other day where you’ve got Sam Smith, you know the one who wore that very dated outfit, the one that was worn 50 years ago by David Bowie. And he goes on a show and again we had the problem with the ‘fisherman’ - ‘No, it’s fisherthem’.

"And I think what would be safer in the long run, to save any embarrassment, is don’t book him for any shows. Don't give him any interviews, don’t give him anything else at all because you're bound to fall foul of him.

"And to be honest with you, I personally couldn't give a rat's tail - I really couldn’t. So don’t invite him on to any programmes, then you won’t look stupid! Because he will criticise you for saying - ‘no it’s them, it’s fisherthem’. No it’s not! No we’re not changing things just to please you! I think not!”

LBC headquarters, Charing Cross Road entrance (Picture credit: Paul Campaigns)

Is that really the reason behind Allen leaving? 

LBC hasn't admitted that Allen's exit from the station has anything to do with the above - but we've trawled through his most recent broadcasts and it seems the only possible explanation for his very sudden departure. After his show of Friday 17 February, Allen wasn't seen on LBC for a week. On the afternoon of Friday 24 February, the news broke that he was gone from the station.

In this new video we've done, find out what happened when a caller tried to talk about Steve live on air at about 6.40am on Tuesday 14 March 2023. 

UPDATE JULY 2023: Sam Smith has released a song called 'Man I Am' that features in the new Barbie film. So he IS a man anyway and says it himself! He sings: "Cause that's the man I am/Baby, treat me right, I'm free tonight/That's just the man I am/Super sleazy, born to be easy"

Now please take action to stop the cavalcade of political correctness warriors wrecking our airwaves. Show LBC that a 68-year-old man's 44-year career cannot be cancelled over him expressing a genuine opinion of his own. Sign this petition.