GOOD Morning Britain viewers have slammed one of the show’s presenters for referring to food banks as “trendy.”
The comment came after presenters Rob Rinder and Ranvir Singh discussed the cost of living crisis and turned to co-presenter Jonathan Swain.
Furious Good Morning Britain viewers slammed the presenter for his food bank comment
The GMB presenter coined food banks as “trendy”
GMB presenter Jonathan was stood outside of a local soup kitchen during the segment and discussed the stress the facilities have been put under.
It was his introduction that angered fans, as he said: “Even here in the city there is a need for things like this. They are seeing double the amount of people come in that need help.
“[The staff] have been doing this for many years now, since 1988, long before food banks became a trendy thing. There are now 2,572 food banks in the country, more food banks than there are McDonald’s outlets.”
Sharing their shock on social media, one person wrote: “Hopefully just a poor choice of words #GMB reporter describes food banks as ‘trendy.’”
A second questioned: “Did the presenter on #GMB just refer to food banks as ‘trendy?’ Pretty sure no one goes to a food bank to look ‘cool.’”
While a third said: “Long before food banks became trendy” not sure people use them because it’s “trendy” but our of dire necessity you pillock #GMB.”
Another person said: “Commenting on a soup kitchen in central London operating since 1988 a reporter on @GMB just said it had been there “before Food Banks became trendy kind of things”. A terrible choice of language.”
The backlash comes just days after the show was slammed when a presenter read a teenager’s A-level results out live on TV after a student failed to get the grades he wanted.
Young people up and down the country were opening up envelopes to see if they had go into heir chosen university.
ITV’s GMB decided to film some students from a college in Hull opening their results live on air on Thursday morning.
While some were left over the moon with what they got, others were a little disappointed.
One student called Dylan was joined by correspondent Pip Tomson as he opened the envelope.
Pip said: “Before you open, quickly tell us what you want and what you hope to do.”
Dylan replied: “I’ve got an unconditional so it doesn’t really matter, anything is a bonus. I hope I see a couple of Bs.”
As the youngster opened the envelope, Pip said: “Let’s see if you’ve got a couple of Bs!”
Dylan sighed as he looked at the piece of paper and Pip read out that he had got two Ds and a C.
Jonathan was stood outside of a local soup kitchen during the segment
