Widdecombe's appearance (15 August 2017) was succeeded by Kevin Barrett, an antisemitic &lt;a href="9/11%20truther"&gt;9/11 truther&lt;/a&gt; who claimed that the Charlottesville car attack and violence at the Unite the Right rally were false flags staged by the American government. Widdecombe was described as an "old friend of the show" by the host during one appearance. Widdecombe told "The Jewish Chronicle" that she agreed to appear to discuss Brexit, and that she "had never heard of the "Richie Allen Show" until I agreed to go on." She distanced herself from the programme's antisemitic content by, among other things, pointing to her membership of the Conservative Friends of Israel, B'nai B'rith event speeches, and her novel "An Act of Treachery", which is set during the Holocaust.