Laurence Fox’s new girlfriend is a conspiracy theorist podcaster who has claimed the moon landings were faked, 9/11 was an inside job, climate change is a ‘smokescreen’ and Jeffrey Epstein was ‘popped’ after Prince Andrew’s Newsnight interview.
Elizabeth ‘Liz’ Barker, who was seen accompanying Fox to the High Court today for the start of a libel trial, describes herself on Instagram as a model, body double and stuntwoman. She was born in America but now lives in the UK.
She regularly appears on Elite Thinking Club, a ‘critical thinking’ fringe podcast that touts itself as a ‘show dedicated to critical thinking’ but airs wild conspiracy theories including the idea Princess Diana was murdered on the orders of the Queen.
Asked in an episode on the theory of evolution whether humans are descended from apes, she replied: ‘I think that’s what we’re made to believe and that is what we should be believing [sic] but I don’t think that is. No. I think we come from another race.’
Barker also claims that financier Epstein was killed following Prince Andrew’s Newsnight interview – but Epstein died in August 2019, three months before the Duke of York’s excruciating interview with Emily Maitlis took place.
Laurence Fox, arriving at the High Court with his new girlfriend, Liz Barker. He is being sued over a row on X, formerly Twitter, in October 2020
Fox has shared images of himself with Ms Barker on social media, including this selfie from September
Mr Fox called Mr Blake and the former RuPaul’s Drag Race contestant, whose real name is Colin Seymour, ‘paedophiles’. They have now issued libel proceedings against him
Ms Barker has shared images of herself wearing a t-shirt reading ‘I will not comply’ – a common rallying call among anti-government conspiracy theorists
Wearing the same t-shirt, Ms Barker waves a sign that appears to show support for the so-called ‘Blade Runners’ who vandalised ULEZ cameras earlier this year
Ms Barker pictured in Laurence Fox’s home in a photo posted to X, formerly Twitter
The Elite Thinking Podcast’s YouTube channel has 500 subscribers, and began posting episodes three years ago with a single host, Chris Jules Julien.
Barker began appearing in episodes at the start of 2021, at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, and was quick to begin sharing radical views on topics commonly up for debate in conspiracy theory circles.
Julien’s TikTok channel, where he posts clips from the podcast, has nearly 35,000 followers.
The show is available on a number of mainstream podcasting platforms, including Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
In a video on conspiracies surrounding the Royal Family, shared in February 2021, Barker claimed Jeffrey Epstein was killed because of his links with Prince Andrew.
The disgraced financier died in prison in August 2019 in what was ruled to be a suicide; he had been arrested on suspicion of sex trafficking shortly before his death, prompting a raft of theories suggesting he had been murdered.
She said in the podcast: ‘The minute Prince Andrew had to do that interview that was it, Jeffrey was going to be popped. Because he’s royalty – and you mess with the royals you ain’t going to come out alive are you.’
However, the interview itself was only recorded in November 2019, three months after Epstein died.
In March 2021, Barker appeared to suggest that the September 11 attacks had ‘grey areas’ of unanswered questions, making apparent references to a theory popular among conspiracists that heat from jet fuel couldn’t have melted the World Trade Centre’s steel construction.
In an episode entitled ‘The truth behind 911’, Barker claims to have seen a ‘different perspective’ on the al-Qaeda-orchestrated attack after visiting the US.
She said: ‘Being around American people I was hearing about these grey areas which wasn’t on the media [sic]. Things like the fuel, the steel, about the building and the way it came down.’
She added that her father appeared to suggest the attacks had been a so-called ‘false flag’ operation to justify the US invasion of Afghanistan.
Simon Blake (left), Nicola Thorp and Colin Seymour (right) arriving at the Royal Courts Of Justice this morning
Ms Barker has used her podcast platform to disseminate conspiracy theories about the royal family, the September 11 attacks and the Moon landings
Laurence Fox pictured with Elizabeth Barker at hustings ahead of the Uxbridge by-election in July. He lost his deposit after securing just 714 votes
Laurence Fox with Elizabeth Barker at the Paul Strank Roofing Charity Gala 2023, held at the Royal Garden Hotel in London in September
Ms Barker continued: ‘My dad was an ex-military man. I told him I was petrified on the flight and he told me I would be fine.
‘I got there and he told me they need to warrant having a war – this was their warrant. This was their way of getting all of us to say ”yes, go get them”.
‘So I came back from my trip with a different perspective on it. Those who went to work that day in that building did not think that another human being – those in power and people running the country and outside sources would ever do something like that.’
She added: ‘When I came back was when I realised the world isn’t what we think it is. We need to look into the grey areas.
‘We need to think more, we need to speak to people, we need to go to these places and actually learn from those people who have experienced these thing that were there. Because they are the people who should be telling the stories, not the media and newsreaders.’
Later in 2021, Barker appeared on the podcast again to suggest that climate change was a ‘smokescreen for something else’, as a means to ‘control’ people.
‘I feel like [climate change] is the next emergency they want to throw at us,’ she said.
‘It’s like we’ve gone from the Covid emergency to climate change…the next thing we want to control you with is climate change.
‘I’ve been hearing all these different radio broadcasts, social media and news outlets about how the impact of us looking down was great for the planet and we may have to have these fire drill lockdowns continuously in order for us to be here and have a planet…I feel it’s a smokescreen for something else.’
And in an April 2021 episode, Barker appeared to suggest that the 1969 Moon landings had been a ‘big lie’ – another popular conspiracy theory suggesting that the Apollo 11 mission was faked.
She said on the episode: ‘Can you imagine being something like that. Imagine being back in that time and they say: ”We’re going to say you’ve been to the moon but you’re not actually going”.
‘I don’t think I could go along with it. That’s quite a big lie to keep going.’
On one podcast, Ms Barker admitted that she was not vaccinated against Covid-19, insisting it was a matter of ‘choice’
She compared the government push for vaccinations to ‘propaganda’, adding: ‘It’s just crazy’
She said of not being vaccinated: ‘I don’t wear a mask, I’m not vaccinated, and I don’t use hand sanitiser due to the toxic chemicals…and I’m still alive, I’m still here’
Ms Barker pictured with Fox at a glitzy charity bash in London in September this year
The stuntwoman and body double claimed she ‘won the battle’ against Covid marshals on the set of a Warner Bros film believed to be The Batman
As the coronavirus pandemic continued into 2022, Barker told an episode recorded in January that she was not vaccinated and regarded the government’s push for vaccinations as ‘propaganda’.
‘I don’t wear a mask, I’m not vaccinated, and I don’t use hand sanitiser due to the toxic chemicals…and I’m still alive, I’m still here,’ she said.
‘I feel like the Government feel like they’re losing control. People are fed up of it. It’s a divisive tactic – mask wearers v non-wearers and vaccinated versus non-vaccinated.
‘I’ve never seen so much push for a medical treatment and getting vaccinated and boosters like I have in a year and a half. It’s mind-blowing. All the adverts, all the propaganda. It’s just crazy.’
She later said that getting a vaccine was a matter of choice, adding: ‘It’s the coercion and manipulation. You should not be coerced or manipulated into doing something you don’t want to do.’
Barker’s social media features posts in which she rails against efforts to protect people during the coronavirus pandemic, including in 2020 when she claimed to clash with producers on a film set in Liverpool while working as a body double.
The podcaster, who has admitted that she was not vaccinated against Covid, called on-set Covid safety marshalls ‘power tripping bullies’ – and claimed she ‘won the battle’ to be on set because ‘production needed me more than I needed them’.
While she did not name the film in her social media post, she included an image of comic book character Catwoman and tagged the post #WarnerBros.
Catwoman, played by Zoe Kravitz, appeared in Warner Bros’ 2022 action film The Batman, which was filmed in Liverpool in 2020. Barker’s name does not appear in the list of credits on IMDB.
Other photos on social media show her wearing a t-shirt reading ‘I will not comply’, and waving a sign appearing to express support for the so-called ‘Blade Runners’ who have vandalised ULEZ cameras in protest at the zone’s expansion in August.
Barker was pictured holding hands with Fox as he entered the High Court to begin a libel trial on Wednesday.
Fox has shared images of him with Barker previously, posting a selfie ahead of a ‘worldwide freedom rally’ in September, captioned: ‘Off for a little stroll.’
The pair have also been pictured together at hustings ahead of the Uxbridge by-election in July, where he lost his deposit after picking up just 714 votes, and at a charity gala in London in September.
The actor-turned-politician is being sued by former Stonewall trustee Simon Blake and drag artist Crystal over a row on Twitter, now known as X, in October 2020.
Mr Fox called Mr Blake and the former RuPaul’s Drag Race contestant, whose real name is Colin Seymour, ‘paedophiles’ in an exchange about a decision by Sainsbury’s to celebrate Black History Month and provide a safe space for black employees.
After Mr Fox called for a boycott of the supermarket, the actor was called ‘a racist’ by the pair and actress Nicola Thorp in their own posts on the platform.
The Reclaim Party founder, who denies being a racist, is counter-suing the trio over their tweets, claiming they damaged his reputation.
Calvin Robinson, who was sacked by GB News after showing support for Fox after he made sexist remarks about political correspondent Ava Evans, appeared to confirm the relationship in a post on social media.
Responding to the claim made by lawyers in court that Fox was an ‘intelligent racist’, Mr Robinson wrote on X: ‘You couldn’t make it up. Laurence was sat there in court today with his mixed race girlfriend and mixed race close friend, being called a racist by three middle class white folks.’
Barker and Fox were contacted for comment.