Good Morning Britain (GMB) viewers have demanded that ITV "get rid" of Richard Madeley after the broadcaster clashed with Gary Lineker. Madeley and co-host Susanna Reid welcomed Lineker to the show this morning (May 23) via video link as the sports personality promoted his ITV quiz show, Sitting on a Fortune, which is set to return for a second series.
Lineker's appearance on GMB comes a few months after he was temporarily suspended by the BBC for speaking out against the government's controversial Illegal Migration Bill. The Match of the Day presenter, 62, is set to receive an award for his activism from Amnesty International in Rome tomorrow (May 24) after saying the language used by the British government to describe migrants was "not dissimilar" to that used in Germany in the 1930s.
After discussing his quiz show's latest series with Madeley and Reid, Lineker was swiftly pressed by the former on his impartiality row with the BBC. Madeley claimed that, during an appearance on Question Time back in March, he defended Lineker's actions, although he did not agree with the language used by Lineker in his tweets.
