Susanna Reid left viewers speechless when she dumped a smoothie on her head live on Good Morning Britain.
The presenter, 55, poured the glass of red fruit drink all over herself after losing the Organ Donation Challenge to her co-host Ed Balls, 59, on Monday morning.
Made In Chelsea star Sam Vanderpump, 28, created the challenge to raise awareness for organ donation after revealing he won’t survive five years without a liver transplant.
To encourage people to sign up to be organ donors, he came up with the fun task - with Reid and Balls becoming the first TV stars to try it out live on air.
The duo had nine seconds to down their smoothie and the loser had to put the remainder of their drink on their head.
The nine seconds highlighted the fact that nine lives can be saved when one person registers to be an organ donor.
Balls threw himself into the mission, quickly downing his smoothie, while Reid struggled to drink hers.
He finished his drink just as the nine seconds came to an end.
Reid, who had barely made any headway with her drink, immediately tipped the glass over her head and winced as the juice dripped all over her.
Vanderpump and his wife Alice screamed and clapped as the broadcaster wiped the sticky liquid out of her eyes, with Vanderpump quipping: “I now feel bad!”
Balls joked, “Excuse me, I’m about to be really, really sick,” and mimed retching to the side of the studio as Reid remarked: “That was a lot of smoothie you consumed!”
Viewers at home were impressed with Reid’s dedication, with one writing, “What a good sport Susanna is!” and another adding: “Such a good cause, well done Susanna!”
Ed and Susanna tackle the Vanderpump Organ Donation Challenge!
— Good Morning Britain (@GMB) May 18, 2026
Made in Chelsea's Sam Vanderpump is currently awaiting a life-saving liver transplant after being diagnosed with end-stage liver disease last year.
Sam and his wife Alice have set this challenge to raise awareness… pic.twitter.com/02kz3cH5wd
“Dunno how Susanna stopped herself splashing Ed’s lovely clean shirt!” a third joked.
Vanderpump’s Made In Chelsea co-stars also took part in the smoothie challenge on a recent episode of the Channel 4 reality show.
He has congenital hepatic fibrosis of the liver and polycystic kidney disease, and now has end-stage liver disease meaning he will need a transplant in order to stay alive.
He was born with the disease but it lay dormant in his body until he was taken ill with sepsis in December 2024.
Last month, the nephew of Lisa Vanderpump revealed he refused his mother’s offer of a liver donation as he did not want to subject her to the impact of his liver disease.
“That first kind of instinct that my mum had, and other members of my family and friends, was ‘we want to help you, we want to’, and my first reaction is, ‘no, I’ve got this illness, why would I want to subject a loved one to this disease?’” he said on GMB.
He went on to agree with Reid that the reason he rejected his mother’s offer of a liver donation was because he did not want to cope with anything going wrong during her part of the donation process.
Vanderpump added: “As we’ve learned more, and you learn a lot more in the documentary that actually the risk to a live donor is actually so minimal they would only accept 20 per cent of live donors that would volunteer, because the absolute amount of testing they go through to make sure that there are no risks.
“And testament to that, in the UK, we’ve had no fatalities from live donors, so it was something I learned recently, and that’s what started to turn my head to maybe accepting and maybe looking into this idea.”
His wife Alice said Vanderpump’s brother was currently going through testing to look at the possibility of becoming a live donor.
The pair announced the birth of their first child, Marmaduke, earlier this year, and Alice said it was “hard to hear” him reject his mother’s offer of a donation.
She said: “I could also relate, because I’d feel the same if I was in his situation, but because we were expecting a baby, it then changed my perspective even more.
“Because you do think about the worst-case scenario sometimes, and you try not to hold on to that thought, but you have to make decisions in the moment that will (be good for your family).
“If I ever looked back in the past and thought, ‘oh, we didn’t look at an option that could have helped Sam’, and something went wrong, I would have really hated myself for it.”
