‘Is this a Red Nose Day sketch?’ moan BBC Breakfast fans as they switch off after ‘car crash’ interview
BBC Breakfast viewers were left reaching for the remote as they tore into an MP's 'car crash' interview on the programme.
Regular show hosts Jon Kay and Sally Nugent were back on the famous red sofa to wake Britain up with the day's headlines and interview a slew of guests.
Among the names appearing on the show this morning was embattled MP Kemi Badenoch.
The Secretary of State for Business and Trade was speaking to Jon and Sally live from Coventry where she had her say on the latest political scandals.
It appeared that her interview only managed to rile up more trouble and discourse online as viewers of the Beeb's morning offering were quick to dismiss what she had to say.
Among one of the topics she was probed on were tech tycoon Frank Hester's 'racist' comments toward leading MP Diane Abbot.
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The Tory party's biggest donor allegedly said looking at Diane made him "want to hate all black women".
Despite last week branding the comments as "racist" and saying “it’s never acceptable to conflate someone’s views with the colour of their skin,” Kemi came under fire this morning for telling Jon to "move on" with his questioning as she insinuated it was 'old news'.
Fans were left flocking to X - formerly Twitter - to hit out at the 'disaster' interview whilst others remarked that they had switched off entirely.
One viewer penned online: "Is this a Red Nose Day sketch? Car crash interview .... #BBCBreakfast."
Another followed up: "#BBCBreakfast sorry, turning off again, you say that you’re asking the questions that the viewing public want answered.
"What I don’t want is a BBC presenter going on and on and on asking a question that has been answered but not in the way BBC want so they keep going… #awful."
Before a third commented: "Just watched #KemiBadenoch on #BBCBreakfast. She’s trying to change her narrative. Never an attractive quality in a politician."
The BBC's latest "car crash" interview comes just over a week after fellow BBC journalist Naga Munchetty, 49, was slammed for undertaking her "worst" interview to date.
Naga was interviewing Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves on the programme but she interrupted Reeves on a number of occasions which left BBC Breakfast viewers frustrated.
Raging on social media, fans branded it a 'weak interview' from Naga - with one going as far as saying it was the "worst interview the BBC has done".
One posted: "Ffs Naga, stop interrupting and badgering Rachel Reeves, some of us would like to hear her point of view on the budget. I bet you don’t do it to Hunt later!!"
