Uncensored, the media company producing audio and video shows including outspoken UK broadcaster Piers Morgan’s flagship YouTube channel, presented the $27 million (€23.8 million) funding round it closed this week as an “initial capital raise”. One shareholder, however, had got in early. On May 15, 2025, a company called Dolly Strategic Holdings Ltd became the first outside investor to acquire shares in Wake Up Productions Ltd from its founders, Morgan and his lawyer-cum-minority partner Martin Cruddace. Wake Up Productions is the UK company running the Uncensored media business.  Dolly Strategic Holdings is the Dublin-based investment vehicle of Irish public-relations entrepreneur…

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