United Agents Head of Comedy Kitty Laing is to step down from her role and as a member of the agency’s executive committee following a spate of reposts about the Israel–Hamas conflict.

Laing will continue working with her client roster, which includes Katherine Ryan, Nick Mohammed and Jamie Demetriou.

“Following the statements made earlier this week, it has been agreed that Kitty Laing will step away from her leadership roles as Head of Comedy and as a member of the Executive Committee of United Agents, effective immediately,” said a spokesman for United Agents. “Kitty will continue to work with her clients and the team at United Agents.”

The news comes after United conducted a “full and thorough investigation” when the reposts emerged earlier this week, at which point Laing reactivated her deleted Twitter to post an apology, before subsequently deleting it again. She has also deleted her Instagram.

This followed Borat Subsequent Moviefilm writer Lee Kern highlighting her posts in a lengthy X thread. The posts included one calling for Jews in Israel to be referred to as “settler paramilitaries”, another that referred to “fake beheaded babies” in the context of the Al-Shifa Hospital attack and one that alludes to Israel being resonsible for that disputed attack. Scroll to the bottom for the full thread.