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Who is George Galloway?
George Galloway is a British politician, broadcaster, and author. George Galloway held this position until he was elected MP for Glasgow Hillhead in the 1987 general election. He was expelled from the Labour Party in 2003 for bringing the party into disrepute after urging British troops to defy orders. In 2004, George became a member of the Respect Party.
Early Life and Childhood
George Galloway was born on August 16, 1954, in Dundee, Scotland, UK. George’s age is 67.
George Sr., his father, was a Scottish trade unionist. Sheila O’Reilly, George’s mother, was of Irish descent. He began his life in Lochee, Dundee.
His father worked as an electrician before becoming an electro-mechanical engineer at NCR. After being laid off, he retrained as a teacher.
Sheila, on the other hand, worked as a cleaner and then as a factory worker.
According to George, his father was patriotic, while his mother sympathized with Irish nationalists. She was also critical of perceived British global pretensions.
Education Details
George Galloway’s education details are unknown.
Professional Career
Galloway pretended to be a cat as part of a Celebrity Big Brother series four task on January 13, 2006.
The scene would go down in history as the most cringe-worthy moment of all time. This was “one of my favorite Celebrity Big Brother series ever,” according to Davina McCall.
George asked, “Would you like me to be the cat?” before getting down on all fours and purring. Then Rula Lenska pretended to get a bowl of milk, and Geroge began drinking it from her cupped hands.
George testified before the United States Senate in 2005 about alleged illegal payments from the United Nations’ Oil for Food Program. George supports the Palestinian side opposing Zionism in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
He was a participant in the Viva Palestina aid convoys. George backed Jerem in the 2015 Labour Party leadership election.
Jeremy Corbyn. He also supported him during his tenure as party leader. George campaigned with the cross-party, pro-Brexit organization Grassroots Out for a “Leave” vote in the 2016 EU membership referendum.
Prior to the 2019 European Parliament election, George tweeted that he would support Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party “for a limited time only.”
In November 2013, he and his wife Gayatri began presenting Sputnik for the RT network. Sputnik is a Russian government-sponsored radio station.
Previously, the station was known as Russia Today. George also contributes regularly to RT’s other programming. Gilad Atzmon and Shlomo Sand have both appeared on his RT programs.
In terms of religion, George has been an outspoken supporter of religious liberty. He was raised and still considers himself a Roman Catholic.
George, on the other hand, has long stated that his religious beliefs are a private matter.
During a 2013 interview, he sparked controversy by saying that as a Roman Catholic, he would not feel safe in an independent Scotland, given the historically bigoted views held by many Scottish nationalists about Catholics.
He is currently the leader of the Workers Party of Britain.
He took on this role in 2019. George has been the founder and primary spokesperson for All for Unity since 2020. He also hosts The Mother of All Talk Shows on Radio Sputnik and Sputnik on RT UK.
George served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for four constituencies from 1987 to 2010, and then again from 2012 to 2015. He began his career with the Labour Party and later joined the Respect Party. George joined the latter in 2004 and served as its president from 2013 until its dissolution in 2016.
In 1981, the Dundee native became the Scottish Labour Party’s youngest ever chairperson. He was the general secretary of the London-based charity War on Want beginning in 1983.
Net Worth and Salary
George Galloway earns an annual salary of $194,386.
He is a wealthy British broadcaster, politician, and author with a net worth of $25 million.
Relationship Status
George Galloway has been married four times throughout his life.
His first marriage was to Elaine Fyffe in 1979. In 1982, George and Elaine welcomed their first child, Lucy.
They divorced 12 years later, in 1999, after they separated in 1987. In 1994, he married Amineh Abu-Zayyad, a biologist of Palestinian origin. George and Amineh married in an Islamic ceremony that was not legally binding.
In March 2000, they had their legally binding civil ceremony. After a lengthy separation, Amineh was granted a divorce in February 2009.
In 2005, George married his former researcher, Rima Husseini of Lebanon, in a non-legally binding Islamic ceremony. Zein, the couple’s first child, was born in 2007.
Body Measurements
He is a man of average height. George is 5 feet 7 inches tall ( Approx 1.7m).
Social Media
His Twitter handle is @georgegalloway.
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Trivia
- He was previously married to his ex-wife Elaine Fyffe, whom he divorced before marrying his second wife, Amineh Abu-Zayyad.
- George had a third wife, Rima Husseini, and is now happily married to his fourth wife, Putri Gayatri Pertiwi.
- He was born in Dundee, Scotland, on August 16, 1954.
- George is a British politician, broadcaster, and author. He is currently the leader of the Workers Party of Britain.
- He also hosts The Mother of All Talk Shows on Radio Sputnik and Sputnik on RT UK.
