Good Morning Britain host Susanna Reid was left seething after a guest on the ITV show shouted over her to brand the show ‘ridiculous and inaccurate’.
The TV host raised her voice at broadcaster Michael Crick, who is one of the founding members of Channel 4 News team, as the two rowed about the show’s poll on the ongoing BBC Panorama scandal.
Donald Trump threatened to sue the BBC following the Panorama special, which was accused of editing a speech by the US President.
It saw the broadcaster’s director general Tim Davie resign, as well as CEO of news Deborah Turness, and the documentary, Trump: A Second Chance? removed from iPlayer.
Susanna, 54, and former Newsnight reporter Michael, 67, went head-to-head in a debate over whether the BBC can be trusted.
Introducing a viewer poll that revealed 82 per cent of the ITV breakfast show’s viewers no longer ‘trusted the BBC’, Michael, who was also joined by former cabinet member Sir John Redwood, was quick to hit back.
Good Morning Britain host Susanna Reid was left seething after a guest on the ITV show shouted over her to brand the show ‘ridiculous and inaccurate’
The TV host was seen raising her voice at broadcaster Michael Crick, who is one of the founding members of Channel 4 News, as the two rowed about the show’s poll on the ongoing BBC Panorama scandal
‘Michael Crick, 82 per cent of our viewers are saying that they no longer trust the BBC,’ Susanna’s co-host Richard Madeley explained, to which Michael replied: ‘That’s one of these polls on X, where people are self-selected on that?
‘That is not accurate. You shouldn’t be doing polls like that. That’s ridiculous.’
Susanna quickly interrupted: ‘We do them to get a flavour of what people believe,’ but John shouted over them both: ‘So don’t these people count then? So don’t these people matter?’
Michael snapped back: ‘Of course they matter but not necessarily representative and you should know that John, you should know that, you’re a clever man.’
A furious Susanna continued: ‘Let me give you a YouGov poll – no Michael, let me give you a YouGov poll published last night,’ as Michael once again interrupted her by adding: ‘I accept there will be outcry about this.’
Reading out the results of the second poll, Susanna revealed that it showed ‘half of the public believe the BBC was biased’.
It comes after Good Morning Britain’s Richard, 69, clashed heads with journalist Kevin McGuire over the BBC Panorama documentary.
On Monday, Kevin, 65, and Richard riled each other up as the presenter told the show guest to ‘shut up’ in a debate about the ongoing scandal.
The presenters and guest Michael were also joined by former cabinet member Sir John Redwood (pictured)
Susanna, 54, and former Newsnight reporter Michael, 67, went head-to-head in a debate over whether the BBC can be trusted
Kevin was seen defending the edit scandal, after an internal dossier exposed a string of incidents that demonstrate serious apparent bias in the Corporation’s reporting, as a ‘mistake’.
But as he furiously tried to defend his position on the events, Kevin was seen continuing to speak even when Richard asked to interject into the conversation.
Tensions rising, Richard was seen hitting out at Kevin to ‘shut up’, as Kevin continued: ‘You’re rattled, you’re rattled!’
It follows director general Tim, 58, stepping down from his position at the BBC over the edit controversy, which saw The Telegraph publish details that suggested the broadcaster edited two parts of Trump’s speech together.
The edit, which was broadcast on October 28, days before the US election, made it appear that the President had encouraged the Capital Hill riots that took place in January 2021.
In the speech on January 6, 2021, Trump told crowds in Washington DC: ‘We’re going to walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women.’
However, in the Panorama edit, he was shown saying: ‘We’re going to walk down to the Capitol… and I’ll be there with you. And we fight. We fight like hell.’
The two sections of the speech were more than 50 minutes apart but appeared to have been edited together.
Good Morning Britain airs weekdays from 6am on ITV1 and ITVX.
