A FOX news host has found himself at the centre of a severe backlash following his distasteful comments surrounding actor Heath Ledger’s death on his radio show.

John Gibson allegedly played an iconic quote from Ledger's hit-flick, Brokeback Mountain, in which the actor said 'I wish I knew how to quit you' and then mockingly joked, 'Well, he found out how to quit you.'

Gibson continued to play another audio piece from the flick, in which Ledger - who died from a suspected drug overdose on Tuesday - said, 'We’re dead,' before yet-again mocking the actor by saying, ‘We’re dead' and playing the clip again.

Gibson also allegedly called the 28-year-old star a “weirdo" with a "serious drug problem" – later on going on to suggest that Ledger took his own life because "a serious position in the [stock] market" or because he "watched the Clinton-Obama debate last night."

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