This Morning viewers want Josie Gibson and Craig Doyle to get a 'raise' after Michael Barrymore interview 'discomfort'
03.08.2023 - 13:31
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
This Morning viewers reckon Josie Gibson and Craig Doyle should get a 'raise' following their interview with Michael Barrymore. The entertainer is back in the limelight after almost 20 years.
He appeared on the ITV daytime show to chat to Josie and Craig live in the studio about finding fame again as a TikTok star after amassing 1.7 million followers and what it was like co-directing the new production, Laurel & Chaplin - The Feud.
But Michael, 71, didn't make it easy for the presenting duo, who took over the reins of the programme from Alison Hammond and Dermot O'Leary while Holly Willoughby takes her eight-week summer break.
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Before an ad break, Josie and Craig were teasing what was to come on the show as the camera showed Michael sat in another part of the studio that acts as a bit of an on-air green room. But the duo were forced to cut to the advert break as Michael continued to shout: "I thought it was Alison and the other one, who are you two?
"Who are they? I know the names of all the cameramen but I don't know you two." Michael then impersonated Craig's Irish accent, and Josie finally snapped: "It's my turn now!"
After the break, Michael joined Josie and Craig on This Morning's famous sofa where he admitted that his ranting was all an act to entertain viewers. "Entertainment is forgetting about your troubles ... it's about the people, the people made me, and now I'm back," he said. "Though not everyone knows, I'm back."
The pair also asked him about his new West End show, and his surprise fame on TikTok to which he told them: "The majority of my audience are 18 to 24 and there's a whole new audience around the world,