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Nigel Farage has stopped using the personalised video platform Cameo after revelations that the Reform UK leader has filmed a string of highly questionable paid-for clips.
On Thursday morning, Farage’s page on the website said he was “unavailable”, and a source said he had paused his use of the platform over security concerns.
Farage’s decision to stop accepting new requests for paid-for video messages follows a Guardian investigation into more than 4,300 clips recorded since he joined the platform in April 2021.
Later on Thursday, Farage made his first broadcast comments about the controversy, falsely alleging the Guardian had “illegally obtained” material.
“I will decline to comment on that,” he said when asked if he would continue to make Cameo videos. “I don’t approve of things being published in national newspapers that have been illegally obtained.”
No data was obtained illegally in the Guardian investigation, which on Tuesday revealed how Farage recorded videos supporting a convicted rioter, repeating extremist slogans, and endorsing a neo-Nazi event.
In other videos, he repeated a motto associated with the UK far right, referenced antisemitic conspiracy theories, and made misogynistic remarks about leftwing politicians, including a comment about the US congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s breasts.
Cameo allows users to commission celebrities and public figures to record short video clips. Farage has charged more than £370,000 for these clips.
Farage last produced a video on Wednesday morning, sending engagement congratulations to two Reform supporters, which was 32 seconds long and sold for £155. By Thursday morning it was no longer possible to buy videos from him.
Asked in an ITN broadcast interview in Scotland if he had any regrets about what he had said in any of the Cameo videos, Farage responded: “This is ludicrous. This argument is ludicrous. If I have a shoe shop and I sell you a pair of shoes, and it turns out the person that bought the pair of shoes is a former convicted murderer, is that the fault of the person selling shoes?” He then told a Guardian reporter who asked about his use of Cameo: “You are a loser.”
Farage has not confirmed whether his decision to stop accepting Cameo requests is permanent. But any move to stop his use of the platform would appear at odds with recent bullish comments from Farage on the subject.
On Tuesday, when asked how his aides should respond to questions from the Guardian about his use of Cameo, Farage suggested “go fuck yourself”, according to a report in the Spectator. In a post on X the following day, Farage dismissed the Guardian’s reporting as a “hit job”.
Farage told the Wall Street Journal in September 2025 that Cameo had been a “massive success” and helped him engage with younger audiences.
The Guardian’s unearthing of Farage’s videos has raised questions about his relationship with the far right and who he is willing to take money from. Farage charged £155 for one video he made in 2025 for a man he was told had received a 16-month sentence for his involvement in a far-right riot. Despite knowing that the man had been convicted over his role in the disorder, the Reform leader recorded a supportive message for him, telling the man “I’m with you”.
“I know you’ve really, really been through the mill and I’m sorry,” Farage told the man. “I’m genuinely sorry. You’re not alone, but that’s Cold Comfort Farm. It’s absolutely rotten. All I can say is keep your head up, keep believing in the right things, keep acting in the right way, and in the end, do you know something, Ben, in the end, good triumphs over evil.”
Farage was paid £141 for another video in which he promoted an event by a Canadian neo-Nazi group, which used the clip in propaganda alongside fascist salutes and antisemitic imagery. Farage called the event “the best thing that ever happened”. The video was removed from Cameo’s website after the Guardian’s story.
Responding to the Guardian’s investigation, a spokesperson for Farage said his Cameo videos should “not be treated as political statements or campaign activity”, and that with thousands of videos recorded, “the occasional mistake can occur”.
They added that Farage used the platform “in good faith and without knowledge of the individuals involved beyond what is written for him” in the prompts that Cameo users use to specify what they want him to say.
The spokesperson added: “If individuals or groups subsequently choose to misuse or repurpose a Cameo recording, that is clearly outside Mr Farage’s knowledge or control.”
In recent days, the Guardian has revealed details of other controversial videos sold by Farage on Cameo. They include clips in which he called for the release of the imprisoned rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs and a Honduran drug trafficker, referred to Welsh people as “foreign speakers”, and backed a slew of obscure cryptocurrencies that later collapsed in value.
A spokesperson for Guardian News and Media said Farage’s allegation that data was illegally obtained was “entirely false”. “All of the Cameo videos and their associated data used in our investigation were publicly available on the platform’s website.”
