Channel 4 News presenter Cathy Newman has been hailed for "skewering" right-wing journalist and provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos.
Mr Yiannopoulos, a writer for ‘alt-right’ American news site Breitbart, was being questioned on the recent appointment of his controversial boss, Steve Bannon, as Donald Trump’s chief strategist.
And Ms Newman’s persistent questioning of Mr Yiannopoulos’ widely-criticised views on rape, feminism and race set social media alight with praise for her “outstanding journalism”.
One viewer wrote: “Can’t believe you managed to keep cool. Hate how he puts his head on his hand like he’s pretending to listen.”
And another Twitter user added: “Standing up to such a blather-mouth, getting (no, wedging!) your words and questions in: kudos. You're amazing.”
At one point in the heated interview, she refers to his previous articles about women and says: “I know you want women to log off the internet but we are now in the Channel 4 News studio and you have to allow me to speak.”
She went on: “You said that women offended online should log-off. You said ‘yes we’ll certainly let women on to the men’s internet a few times a year as long as you follow a few basic rules.
“You said mass Muslim immigration must stop or people will know real rape culture. Are we supposed to just soak that up and take that as a big joke?”
To which he responded: “You are supposed to take it as intended and not wrench it from context.
"You know perfectly well that it is a provocation designed to make people think and perhaps to make them laugh?”
The Channel 4 presenter then goes on to ask how his “delight in offending people” reflects on Mr Bannon, who will be a senior advisor to the President-elect.
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Mr Yiannopoulos argued that “the grievance brigade” has rule America for 30 years and people are ready for a change, citing feminists and Black Lives Matter supporters as examples of groups that “spread conspiracy theories and propaganda”.
He also said that the gender wage gap and university campus rape culture are “not real”.
