2024

This Morning has been hit with 6037 complaints from viewers after a segment where guest Nick Ferrari hit out at people with nut allergies on planes..By Mia O'Hare, Showbiz Reporter

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The ITV daytime show caused anger among some viewers following a discussion about nut allergies. Host Dermot O'Leary issued an apology following an outburst by guest Nick Ferrari. However, some viewers still complained about the discussion to television watchdog Ofcom.

Dermot and Josie Gibson were joined by broadcaster Nick to talk about the day's topical subjects. A total of 637 viewers logged a complaint following the segment on Tuesday 28 May. During This Morning View, they discussed the world's first dog-friendly airline being launched.

Bark AIR costs £4,000 a ticket, which promoted Nick to share his "ideal" airline. He stated that peanuts would not be banned to protect allergy sufferers on his plane. Nick said: "I'd love to run an airline. I don't know about you, but here are some of the restrictions; no babies or children who cry, nobody who tries to recline their seat, nobody who doesn't fancy a drink mid air.

"No men wearing flip-flops - if they haven't got socks, they're not allowed on. And probably nobody who hasn't got a sense of humour or is wearing a funny hat." He added: "Oh, and if you don't like peanuts, don't get on the plane either because I do and I can't eat them because someone at the back of the plane is going to drop dead or something if I have a peanut. I don't quite know why. But there's my airline."

Josie laughed and Dermot hit his head with his paper script repeatedly. The host quipped: "Urgh, where do I begin to start unpacking this?!" Viewers at home did not find the segment funny, including the founder of Creative Nature, an allergen-free food company which is stocked in supermarkets across the UK.

Posting on Instagram, they said: "THIS MORNING, THIS IS SIMPLY NOT GOOD ENOUGH! We are absolutely appalled by this recent segment on This Morning. Instead of the presenters standing up and showcasing this comment was wrong they simply just sat there and laughed. This Morning, do you think this is good enough?

"You are continuing to allow people to see allergies as a joke, someone dying on an airline due to someone eating nuts on board could be someone’s reality. That is absolutely in no way a joke to be laughed at on national tv." Another viewer added: "What a disgrace @thismorning laughing and ridiculing life threatening allergy in the air. This is the ignorance that causes death. My teenage son has to listen to this s*** & go thru life surrounded by ignorant people like you #nickferrari shame on you." Others urged fellow disgruntled viewers to complain to Ofcom, which over 600 people did.

A day after Nick's comments, Dermot issued an apology to viewers as he said This Morning would be airing a 'special segment' on flying with allergies on a future show. He said: "Quickly, before we start, yesterday there was a reference on the show to nut allergies in The Morning View. Apologies from us. We just want to reiterate we take those very seriously, especially dangerous ones, on the show."

Got to laugh at lefties spluttering about "populists", of course lefties like unpopulists such as Michael Foot or Jeremy Corbyn....

Unsurprisingly a Reform supporter and Putin apologist advocates violence to bring about change he advocates for the EU.

Not much democracy there is there

Voting for Putin

So you think we, as a country, should not stand up to a fascist that spread nerve gas in our country?

Yes or no?

I want a Melenchon win and heres why.
I am English and I want wants best for us, Macron is letting migrants come here,Le Pen will probably help the migrants get here as she just wants them out of France.
A Melenchon win will weaken the EU who I regard as our enemy.
A few months of the 'chaoten' that will be the result of a Melenchon win will mean that the far left will never get into power in  a European country again.

I will vote Reform hoping that it will hurry the end of the Lib/Lab/Con and maybe encourage a change to proportional representation.

Fair play Trymer, opinions opinions as they say.
I don't know what Marine Le Pen would have DV o with their own illegal immigrants,but I think she might do better at Calais than Macron.
She'll have a deportation plan and it'll be a good one.

A bit of a stretch maybe (although there are historical precedents) in the event of Melenchon winning,Red revolution spreading through mainland Europe and ensuing chaos and perhaps virtual civil war should Britain accept European and EU politicians coming here as refugees ?...
Personally I think not,the Russian royal family were refused entry...later De Gaulle was admitted and went on to try and **it all over us...the ungrateful old *******...the thought of Macron rocking up here makes me feel ill...worse that Verstoffhafen or whatever his name is.

The view from the USA

"These are the bitter fruits of austerity: an experiment in sado-monetarist economics and financial barbarism. Not much unites those five prime ministers other than the constant ritual tribute in blood to their coiffed icon, Margaret Thatcher. Yet Thatcher, back in the 1980s, did not lie about how brutal the first shock of neoliberalism was going to be. She coldly promised torture before riches. Its sequel, however, was pitched by its architect George Osborne, chancellor under David Cameron, as a bit of belt-tightening resembling that most prized memory in the national canon: the Blitz Spirit. Come on, chaps, buck up and give it some welly. The shattering of society into thinner fragments was supposed to be a hardy adventure.

Midway through this downhill plummet, Britain bumbled backward out of the European Union. The wreckage of this four-year disaster can now best be seen as an attempt to escape the harsh bite of austerity. Brexit was a retreat from hunger into myth: an embrace of antique fables about British pluck and derring-do, a belief that even without an empire and an industrial base this archipelago might reclaim past glory. Faced with profound turmoil, much of the nation turned to a half-remembered falsehood about their grandfather’s generation, marching along with Churchill. This election is the reckoning Brexit postponed."

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