ITV This Morning's Dermot O'Leary issues apology after backlash
Prior to the This Morning's View segment of the ITV daytime show on Wednesday (May 29) Dermot O'Leary said sorry for an item on the previous day's programme.
This Morning: Dermot issues apology after nut allergy reference
This Morning host Dermot O'Leary said sorry for a segment on Tuesday's show, which left viewers upset. Prior to the show's This Morning's View feature on Wednesday (May 27) he issued the prepared apology.
"Quickly before we start, yesterday there was a reference on the show to nut allergies in The Morning View. Apologies from us," he said.
"We just want to reiterate that we take those very seriously, especially dangerous ones on the show. So following on from stories this week about a family not being able to fly because of an allergy issue we are going to be doing a special segment on it next week as well."
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His apology came about after outraged viewers took to social media to slam media commentator Nick Ferrari's attitude while discussing the story of BBC weather presenter Georgie Palmer and her family being ordered off a plane after she told the crew her daughter was allergic to peanuts.
Taking to Instagram the Vegan, gluten, dairy, wheat, nut, soya and egg free brand @creativenature posted a clip to their 48.1 thousand followers of the LBC Radio presenter saying: "If you don't like peanuts then don't get on the plane because I do and I can't eat them because someone at the back of the plane is going to drop dead or something." Host Josie Gibson laughed at his remarks while Dermot O'Leary held a sheet of paper over his face to hide his giggles.
"THIS MORNING, THIS IS SIMPLY NOT GOOD ENOUGH!" the outraged post began. We are absolutely appalled by this recent segment on @thismorning today.
“Don’t get on the plane either, If you don’t like peanuts, because I do and I can’t eat them because someone at the back of the plane is going to drop dead if I have a peanut, I don’t know why”
"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. Use this platform to educate and bring awareness to this issue instead of making it a laughing matter."
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Their followers agreed and took to the comments section to slam the segment. @coeliac_diaries_ wrote: "Honestly this is appalling!! Why is the risk of someone’s death something we laugh at?! What on earth @thismorning this is not ok."