KATIE Hopkins has responded to a boycott that led to her stand-up show being cancelled at a Totton venue.

The controversial former columnist recorded a YouTube video saying she has never asked to be endorsed by anyone.

It comes after a backlash saw The Attic Southampton cancel her May 3 appearance.

She was due to perform at the venue in Winsor Road, Totton, as part of her Live Laugh Love comedy stand-up tour.

Several performers boycotted the venue after it was revealed she had been booked. The venue then cancelled her date.

Speaking on YouTube last month, Ms Hopkins said: "So because I'm bringing my stand-up show Live Laugh Love - which is just about people laughing together mostly at me - a young rock band have boycotted the venue and refused to play there because I'm going to be there - not even on the same night."

She added: "At what point did I ask them to endorse my stand-up show?

"I don't ask anyone to endorse anything I do, I go out there entirely alone.

"No-one wants to be associated with me... I'm not asking for their endorsement."

Ms Hopkins said, in the video published on February 27, that she was already looking for a bigger venue, and said one of the bands involved in the boycott had therefore "boycotted a venue where I'm not even going to be".

Ms Hopkins told the Echo: “I am so happy that my stand up show Live.Laugh.Love is bringing so much joy to ordinary people who have just about had enough of the madness we are surrounded by.

“Goodness knows, we need a laugh right now and that’s the point.

“My audiences laugh hard (mostly at me) and leave feeling better about the world. Perhaps the Southern Daily Echo will help me announce a London venue next week?"

The Blackpool Gazette reported on her date at the Joe Longthorne Theatre.

General manager Martine Hagel told the newspaper people should make their own minds up.

She said: “This is not even the first time she has performed here, she did shows here last year and people really love her.

"We had no trouble here at all and those shows were really well attended.

"What I would say is that if you like Katie Hopkins, please buy a ticket. If you don’t like her, don’t bother.

“People should be able to make their own decisions about what shows they want to see.”

Ms Hopkins, a former contestant on The Apprentice and Celebrity Big Brother, was sacked by LBC in 2017 for a controversial tweet in response to the Manchester Arena bombing.

Three years later, she was banned from Twitter as the social media site said she had violated its hateful content policy.