London: the broadcaster Narinder Kaur says that since sexually explicit images made from her Instagram photographs with a nudification app appeared on X in November 2025 she has been tagged in at least 20 more deepfaked pictures and videos, and that she fell into a depression; no perpetrator has been identified (Daily Mail, 30 September 2026)
Narinder Kaur, a 54-year-old broadcaster and regular TV commentator, told the Daily Mail (30 September 2026) that one morning in November 2025 she opened X and found sexually explicit images of herself, made by taking photographs she had shared on Instagram and removing her clothing with a so-called nudification app. Since then she has been tagged in at least 20 more deepfaked pictures and videos, some linking her to Jeffrey Epstein. She says she fell into a depression in the early weeks and her GP suggested antidepressants, that commenters treated the images as real, and that she fears her teenage children will see them. She has reported each image and had numerous police visits, but no perpetrator has been identified because the accounts are anonymous and deleted when reported. She has joined the Stop AI Abuse campaign.
- AI system
- Unidentified image and video tool
- Occurred
- Nov 2025
- Reported
- 30 September 2026
- Event location
- Unknown
- What the AI did
- Depicted or impersonated the person
- Reported harm
- Exploitation or AbusePsychological DistressReputational Harm
- Whose AI use
- Someone else’s AI use
- Setting
- Privacy · Work · Everyday life
- Evidence
- AI involvement reported · Causal attribution alleged · 1 source
- 4 claims: 4 reported. 3 open questions
- People reported harmed
- 1 person
AI system as recorded: A so-called nudification app used to remove her clothing from photographs taken from her Instagram account, and other deepfaked pictures and videos posted on X (Daily Mail); no tool is named
What Happened
In a Daily Mail feature by Helen Carroll (30 September 2026) that quotes her at length, the broadcaster Narinder Kaur, 54, says that one weekday morning in November 2025 she opened X, where she has almost 80,000 followers, and found sexually explicit images of herself. According to the article, someone had taken screenshots of photographs she had shared on Instagram and removed her clothing using a so-called nudification app. She says other fake images and videos of her had circulated before, including some made to look as if she was being deported. Since the first image she has been tagged in messages containing at least 20 more deepfaked pictures and videos, including some linking her to Jeffrey Epstein.
She says she felt degraded, fell into a depression in the early weeks and did not want to get out of bed; her family persuaded her to see her GP, who suggested antidepressants, which she declined. She says the comments from people who believed the images were real were almost as devastating as the images, that images linking her to Epstein attack her integrity, and that she dreads her teenage children finding them. She has reported each image and had numerous police visits, but the perpetrators hide behind anonymous profiles and delete their accounts when reported, and none has been identified. She believes speaking out has made her more of a target.
The same feature includes the Labour MP Jess Asato, whose case is held separately, and a town councillor and university lecturer who says altered images posted in a local Facebook group led her not to stand for re-election.
Reported harm
She says sexually explicit deepfake images made from her Instagram photographs, and at least 20 more deepfaked pictures and videos, were posted and tagged to her on X, leaving her degraded and depressed, and that commenters believed they were real (her account to the Daily Mail).
Outcome
OngoingShe has reported each image and had numerous visits from the police; no perpetrator has been identified (Daily Mail, 30 September 2026). She has joined the Stop AI Abuse campaign.
What remains unknown
- Which app or AI tool was used and who made or posted the images.
- Which police force is involved and the status of its inquiry.
- Whether X removed the posts.
What the evidence supports
AI involvement: reported. The Daily Mail reports that someone took photographs she had shared on Instagram and removed her clothing using a so-called nudification app, and describes deepfake pornography as using AI to alter images in sexually explicit ways. No tool is named and the perpetrators are unidentified.
4 claims: 4 reported. What the statuses mean
Reported In November 2025 the broadcaster Narinder Kaur found on X sexually explicit images of herself made from photographs she had shared on Instagram, using a nudification app; since then she has been tagged in messages containing at least 20 more deepfaked pictures and videos of her.
Causal attribution. Her own account in a Daily Mail feature; the images are not reproduced and no other inspected source describes them.
- dailymail.co.uk(opens in new tab) supports · English
'One weekday morning last November, Narinder Kaur discovered she had been the victim of a shocking, humiliating crime.'; 'someone had screenshot photographs she’d shared on her Instagram account and removed her clothing using a so-called ‘nudification’ app'; 'Since that first image appeared on her X page last November, she has been tagged in messages containing at least 20 more deep-faked pictures and videos of her.'
Reported She says she fell into a depression in the early weeks and her family persuaded her to see her GP, who suggested antidepressants, which she declined.
Causal attribution. Her own account.
- dailymail.co.uk(opens in new tab) supports · English
'I felt such despair in the early weeks that I fell into a depression, not wanting to get out of bed.'; 'My family persuaded me to see my GP, who suggested antidepressants.'; 'I didn’t want to go down that route over this.'
Reported She says commenters treated the images as real, that images linking her to Jeffrey Epstein attack her integrity, and that she fears her teenage children may see them.
Causal attribution. Her own account.
- dailymail.co.uk(opens in new tab) supports · English
'Almost as devastating as the images of me were the comments underneath, from people who believed they were real.'; 'suggesting I went to Epstein’s parties is also an attack on my integrity,'; 'thinking my teenage children might come across them online.'
Reported She has reported each image and had numerous police visits, but no perpetrator has been identified because the accounts are anonymous and deleted when reported.
Causal attribution. Her account as reported by the Daily Mail; no police statement is quoted.
- dailymail.co.uk(opens in new tab) supports · English
'Narinder has, meanwhile, reported each image and had numerous visits from the police but still none of the perpetrators has been identified.'; 'perpetrators hide behind anonymous online profiles and delete their accounts as soon as they are reported.'
Sources
1 source inspected. Sources that repeat one account do not corroborate each other.
- Daily Mail, 30 September 2026: I never thought that as a married mother of two in my 50s I would become a victim of deepfake porn(opens in new tab)
s1 · dailymail.co.uk · News report · English · Inspected · 30 September 2026 · Primary
How the sources were read, and where the events happened
Read on 2026-10-01 from the live Daily Mail page (30 September 2026, updated 12:08 BST), a feature by Helen Carroll that quotes her at length; the same text is on dailymail.com. First-person account of the broadcaster. Applies to s1.
Event countries: Unknown. Affected-person countries: United Kingdom. Court countries: Unknown.
The Daily Mail says she lives in north London. The images were posted on X by anonymous accounts whose location is unknown, so the event country is left unknown.
Reviewed for publication 2026-10-01: Published as a core case (depicted_or_impersonated): a television broadcaster, a public figure speaking on record, gives the Daily Mail a first-person account of sexually explicit images made from her Instagram photographs with a nudification app and posted on X since November 2025, with depression, police reports and no identified perpetrator. Single-source first-person account; the imagery is not described in detail. Two other women in the same feature are separate cases (one already held).
People described
Narinder Kaur, 54, a broadcaster and TV current-affairs commentator (a public figure speaking on record)
People reported harmed in this case
1 person
0 AI participants · 1 other person harmed
One person, the broadcaster depicted in the images (Daily Mail). Her family is mentioned but not counted. Exact 1.
Counted once within this case. The same person may appear in other cases. This count does not establish AI causation.
Cite this case
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APA
NOPE. (2026). London: the broadcaster Narinder Kaur says that since sexually explicit images made from her Instagram photographs with a nudification app appeared on X in November 2025 she has been tagged in at least 20 more deepfaked pictures and videos, and that she fell into a depression; no perpetrator has been identified (Daily Mail, 30 September 2026). AI incidents. https://nope.net/incidents/2025-gb-news-broadcaster-narinder-kaur-nudification-app-deepfake-images-x
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