Good Morning Britain’s viewers have demanded that Richard Madeley be dropped after he asked a guest who had lost 21 relatives in Gaza: ‘How close were you to your brothers?’<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ahmed Alnaouq, who was a guest on ITV’s breakfast show, lost 21 members of his family in one week after their house was bombed in the war-torn strip including his father, two brothers, three sisters, sister-in-law and 14 nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The London-based journalist was left looking stunned after Madeley, 67, asked if he was ‘close’ to his family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It comes just a week after the programme was hit with more than 2,300 complaints after the host sparked a backlash for asking a British-Palestinian MP if she knew about Hamas’s terror attack on Israel before it happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The presenter said: ‘How close were you to your brothers?’<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He added: ‘Were they younger than you or older than you?’<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And in a third question, he asked: ‘And a big feature in your life?’<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A shocked looking Mr Alnaouq responded: ‘Sorry?’ – to which Madeley repeated: ‘They have been a big feature of your life?’<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It came after an emotional start to the interview – where Mr Alnaouq told how his family had moved to his home in Gaza because they thought it would be safer than their own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They were sleeping in the early morning of October 22 when the bombs struck – with only two of his family surviving. One of these later succumbed to their injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Responding to Madeley’s questioning, he said: ‘Of course. We grew up together. We lived all our life together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
‘I lived in Gaza all my life until I came here to the UK so we were very close.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Viewers reacted in fury after seeing the question – demanding that he be removed from the programme for his ‘unacceptable’ questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One – called Bernadette – raged: ‘Can Richard Madeley just be removed from this show now!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
‘Ahmed explaining he lost 21 of his family members in Gaza and Richard asks: “How close were you to your brothers.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
‘What part of that question is acceptable?’<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another – called Phil Blues – said: ‘Dear ITV, Please get Richard Madeley off Good Morning Britain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
‘You cannot have someone like this on our screens, he asks someone who has lost his father and two brothers and three sisters and 14 nieces and nephews – how close were you to your brothers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
‘He is without compassion or morals.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A third, Amjid Khan, fumed: ‘Richard Madeley is a buffoon and why he’s even allowed near people is baffling\u2026’<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And Shirley Anne Smith quoted Mark Twain – brutally saying: ‘It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On October 17 British-Palestinian MP Layla Moran, whose family were trapped in Gaza as Israel prepared a ground invasion, was seemingly taken aback after Madeley asked her if she knew about Hamas’s terror attack on Israel before it happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Madeley apologised the same day for upsetting viewers, with a GMB spokesman adding his intention was to ‘understand the mood and atmosphere’ of the situation before Hamas terrorists launched their barbaric attacks on Israel on October 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Media watchdog Ofcom revealed last week – on October 25 – that 2,378 viewers had lodged complaints against GMB for the comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It came as Madeley faced further backlash after asking a man whose mother was kidnapped by Hamas if he was ‘comforted’ by the ‘not unreasonable treatment’ hostages received at their hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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