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24.02.2022 - 01:47 / ok.co.uk
Good Morning Britain has received hundreds of Ofcom complaints after presenter Richard Madeley made a comment about death threats on the ITV daytime show.The presenter, 65, received criticism from viewers after he questioned if abuse received by Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer was a “big deal” as he hosted the show. Richard's comments led to over 800 complaints to the communications regulator Ofcom, who will decide whether to further investigate.
Leader of the Opposition Kier, 59, was sent death threats after Boris Johnson falsely claimed that he had failed to prosecute Jimmy Saville. On GMB, Richard said: “Now, we learnt yesterday that Keir Starmer is getting death threats online; people calling for his execution...” Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter To which journalist Andrew Pierce, interrupted with: “Well, politicians get that all the time.” And I'm A Celebrity star Richard added: “I was going to say...
is it that big of a deal?” The following day Richard, who was presenting alongside Susanna Reid, apologised for his prior comments. "It was a really busy show yesterday, we had so much to do.
I want to say one thing very quickly at the top here," he said. "I tried to pose a question on one of our early discussions on the programme about how prolific online death threats are.
I didn’t actually quite press it properly, I didn’t go into it enough." He added: "I just want to reiterate the obvious statement that death threats clearly are never acceptable." At the time, viewers took to Twitter to express their shock at the presenter’s comments. One person wrote: “Richard Madeley suggesting death threats to Kier Starmer are no big deal, when 2 mps have
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Good Morning Britain has sparked 850 Ofcom complaints after Richard Madeley questioned the death threats made against Sir Keir Starmer. On February 14, it was reported that an investigation had been launched into harmful messages that were sent to the Labour Party leader, after Boris Johnson made the false claim that to prosecute paedophile Jimmy Savile. Last Tuesday’s edition of GMB saw Madeley discussing Starmer’s experience, explaining that there are trolls who have been ‘calling for his execution’ online, which led the presenter to ask whether it was ‘that big a deal.
Good Morning Britian has been slapped with more than 800 complaints after comments made by Richard Madeley.