Milo Yiannopoulos LOSES his $250k book deal amid outrage at pedophilia comments as Breitbart workers threaten to quit if he isn't sacked
- Milo Yiannopoulos lost his $250,000 book deal with Simon & Schuster Monday
- On Facebook he wrote: 'I've gone through worse. This will not defeat me'
- Earlier, he was told his invite to the CPAC conference has been rescinded
- Matt Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union, said he was banned because of the 'offensive' video
- The firebrand discussed 'coming of age' relationships in an online debate
- The controversial commentator star claimed teenagers could 'discover who they are' by having a gay relationship with an older man
- However, he strongly denied he was defending pedophilia during the debate
- He later wrote on Facebook that he was a victim of child abuse himself
Milo Yiannopoulos lost his $250,000 book deal on Monday after video was leaked that showed the alt-right poster boy appearing to defend pedophilia.
Publisher Simon & Schuster said: 'After careful consideration, Simon & Schuster and its Threshold Editions imprint have canceled publication of Dangerous by Milo Yiannopoulos.'
'Dangerous' was set to be published under Threshold Editions, the conservative branch of the publisher according to USA Today.
The book deal received backlash since the announcement in January, with many on social media threatening to boycott the publisher.
Yiannopoulos's lewd comments saying relationships in which 'older men help those young boys to discover who they are' seemed to have pushed the company to back out.
After the announcement, the 33-year-old speaker posted on Facebook: 'They canceled my book.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4243614/Milo-Yiannopoulos-loses-250-000-book-deal.html
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