Gogglebox’s Ellie and Izzi Warner have hit out at viewers who complain about TV shows after they faced major backlash for making jokes about the Me Too movement.
Stars of the show watched the recent controversy surrounding BBC presenter Naga Munchetty unfold, after a complaint about her was partially upheld.
Before the BBC overturned their decision, they found that Munchetty had breached editorial guidelines when she spoke out on air against Donald Trump’s controversial July tweet in which he told four female congresswomen to ‘go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came’.
Following the decision, figures including Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Channel 4 News presenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy and Sir Lenny Henry all criticised the BBC.
Ellie and Izzi were unimpressed with the complaint against the presenter being made in the first place.
‘Who’s got time on their hands to complain?’ Ellie asked, with Izzi responding: ‘Retired people, people who have got time to watch TV at 6 in the morning.’
Gogglebox viewers were left fuming and calling for the pair to be sacked from the show when they made jokes about the Me Too movement, which has seen women speaking about their experiences of sexual assault.
Viewers expressed their disgust when Ellie and her sister Izzi talked about the last time they had played the playground game ‘tag’, with Ellie admitting she had recently played a modified version of the game.
The adult version of the game involved her and her friends chasing each other around and grabbing each other’s ‘boobs or bum’ and calling out ‘me too’ when caught.
Izzi also came under fire in an earlier episode after she suggested Boris Johnson should have ‘shoved his k**b in her gob to shut her up’ after being questioned by a woman.
Despite the widespread outrage, the pair remained on the show.
Gogglebox continues Fridays at 9pm on Channel 4.
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