RICHARD Bacon appeared on Good Morning Britain today and praised Andi Peters for once saving his career – but viewers were left distracted by his LA home.
Richard spoke to hosts Susanna Reid and Ben Shephard from Los Angeles where he now lives with his wife Rebecca and children Arthur, 10, and Ivy, seven.
But his bare walls and metal bed were the talk of Twitter, as fans were surprised that Richard wasn’t sleeping in more lavish surroundings.
One viewer asked: “Is Richard Bacon in Shawshank prison?”
Another person teased the TV star, saying: “Richard grab the sink and throw it out the window and escape!”
And one mocked: “Is Richard in a homeless centre?”
Richard heaped praise on pal Andi Peters for giving him a job after he was sacked from Blue Peter for snorting cocaine.
After being axed from the children’s show Andi offered him a way back onto our screens with a role on The Big Breakfast.
Richard said: “Andi likes to take credit for that, but he actually deserves the credit because that’s what happened.”
He went on to have a successful presenting career and is now creating game shows in Hollywood, and even stood in for Piers Morgan on Good Morning Britain earlier this year.
His dramatic fall from grace was an early example of what we now call “cancel culture” and Richard fronts a new Channel 4 documentary, Cancelled, about how social media has become an arena for public shaming and toxic abuse.
He explained: “I was cancelled in a sense of the phrase, but cancel culture as a term has only been around for a few years.
“And that was being cancelled.
“You do need someone to put faith in you and put their arm around you and support you.
“You see people lose their job at 25 for writing a homophobic tweet as a teen and that’s not fair.
“I’ve always thought those examples you hear a lot are too much, being held to account for opinions you had at 15.
“There are a vocal minority of people who are sanctimonious and want to take people down.
“But most people are interested in consequence culture where people can learn from their mistakes.
“I’ve got kids who are about to become teenagers and they’re entering a world that is a minefield, and part of this documentary was to make it easier for them to understand the public shaming, and when you are publicly shamed as a young person it is very hard to deal with.”
