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Viewing figures for This Morning went up this week despite many ITV viewers threatening to switch off from the programme over claims daytime teams called fans “tower block Tracys”.
Figures from overnights.tv show 546,000 people tuned in on Wednesday compared to 555,400 viewers on Thursday.
At the DCMS Select Committee on Wednesday, SNP MP John Nicolson, an-ex ITV News star, asked bosses if they had heard daytime teams call viewers “tower block Tracys”.
ITV’s managing director Kevin Lygo recoiled as he hit back:”It’s a horrible phrase.”
Taking to Twitter, Kieron_Newton posted: “#ITVThisMorning Tower Block Traceys’ really??? I’ll never watch another episode of This Morning.
“What an absolutely disgusting way to refer to the viewers at home! In fact, the whole show should just be scrapped! It’s well past its sell-by-date anyway, as are the producers!!”
UsmanAli_REC added: “The sheer level of class snobbery revealed through the course of the ITV investigation has really concerned me.
“But hearing that communities have been referred to as ‘tower block Traceys’ is just unbelievably despicable. Thank you @MrJohnNicolson for holding ITV to account.”
Gordon G Donaldson fumed: “The sooner the current producers of #itvthismorning are ousted THE BETTER I could not believe what I heard when John Nicholson revealed he had evidence of them calling the viewers tower block Traceys there needs to be major changes to the show.”
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It comes after ITV bosses, Dame Carolyn McCall appeared in front of a special Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport committee to answer questions about Phillip Schofield’s exit from This Morning ad his affair with a younger male colleague.
She insisted the team were “repeatedly told nothing was happening” between Schofield and Person X.
Both men were questioned 12 times about whether they were having an affair as McCall explained: “There was only hearsay and rumour and speculation.
“Nobody on the board would have turned a blind eye to something as serious as this.”
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Former This Morning star Eamonn Holmes slammed Carolyn and Kevin’s appearance in front of MPs.
Reeling on Thursday’s GB News, the ex-ITV star fumed: “There’s a scene in a Few Good Men where Jack Nicholson shouts ‘you can’t handle the truth’.
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