Good Morning Britain fans brand Ed Balls a ‘Pound Shop Piers Morgan’ after ‘car crash’ interview
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Good Morning Britain fans slammed host Ed Balls for his interviewing style during a discussion with former Chancellor Jeremy Hunt on Tuesday morning.
Fans branded the GMB presenter, 57, a ‘Pound Shop Piers Morgan‘ following his ‘car crash’ interview, claiming he constantly interrupted the politician.
The conversation stemmed after Chancellor Rachel Reeves accused Jeremy of ‘lying’ about public finances under a Tory ‘cover up’.
She claimed there was a ‘£22billion black hole’ that Labour government now have to fix.
During the chat, viewers criticised the host for not allowing Jeremy to speak and answer the questions put to him by Ed and his co-star Ranvir Singh.
Some fans even begged ITV bosses to ‘sack him’ after he attempted to mimic the former GMB presenter, 59.
Taking to X, viewers wrote: ‘You have to ask yourselves how long can Ed Balls remain on the program? Is he impartial?’,
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‘Jeremy Hunt couldn’t get a word in but RR was allowed to woffle on’,
‘Ed Balls – you are a rude, insolent piece of work, interrupting Jeremy Hunt, who doesn’t like to hear the truth. I’d ask you to knock sense into your wife, but you don’t have any yourself’,
‘interview with Jeremy Hunt let him speak’,
‘Ed Balls going full “Pound shop Piers Morgan ” on Jeremy Hunt #GMB’.
It comes after Ed and Gareth Gates sat down for a candid and heartfelt interview today where they discussed their personal battles with speech impediments.
The former Labour shadow chancellor said he still sometimes struggles to get words out while he is hosting live television, but his GMB co-presenter Susanna Reid knows to give him the time he needs.
Gates also described coping with a speech impediment and how he was inspired to try acting after learning that Mr Bean star Rowan Atkinson also has a stammer.
The Pop Idol winner was interviewed by Balls about his speech impediment during a previous appearance on GMB last year, which saw the former Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families welling up as he recalled his childhood battle.
‘You inspired me. I thought, ‘If Gareth Gates can do this, I can too. And if he can be public, I can be public too. It was really hard, but I did it because you showed me how to do it,” Balls told him during the chat in November 2023.
Gates has often spoken about his struggles with his speech impediment and said today that he was surprised when he found out that Atkinson faced the same challenge.
He told GMB: ‘I met the incredible Rowan Atkinson and he introduced himself and I could instantly see he had a really bad stammer.
‘I was really amazed by this, he’s a very well-known actor. We sat down and I chatted with him for hours, obviously, because we can’t speak.
‘He actually inspired me to act and, off the back of meeting him, I’ve done lots of West End shows, I’ve learned scripts and dialogue. I can now speak on stage, purely down to him, so we all inspire each other.’
Their 2023 discussion about stammers struck a chord with Balls, who began crying.
Susannah Reid told her co-host: ‘Nothing to be ashamed of. It’s to be proud of – it’s part of your identity, isn’t it! [Gareth] broke the ground for you, didn’t he, Ed? There we go, Gareth, that’s what you did.
Gates added: ‘You’re a role model for me now! For you to be doing this is really incredible.
‘I’ve proved to people you can have an affliction and don’t let it dictate who you are. You’re able to achieve whatever you want in life. You just have to be strong.
‘My speech is massively affected if I’m tired, stressed. Under pressure. That’s the nature of the show [Celebrity SAS] – to push you to your limits. It was hard. I’m much more confident now. I got quite a lot out of the show’.
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