It is not the first time Mitchell has caused controversy; last year he revealed he intended to home-school his young son because he ‘doesn’t want him to be gay’.

‘We’re going to have to home-school all our kids or they’re all going to end up turning gay,’ he said in an Instagram video while holding his son.

‘That’s the reason I’m going to home-school Tucker, because I don’t want him to be a communist. I don’t want him to worship Satan. I don’t want him to be gay.’

Mitchell, who believes the earth is flat, previously urged his nearly 500,000 followers not to vaccinate their children.