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I actually think that ITV and the producers at This Morning are at fault for this for thinking the whole segment was appropriate in the first place. I feel for Holly and Phil because it's not like they have a choice when the programme/producer is asking them to film a piece for a future show. It comes with a string of failings and poor decision making at ITV and This Morning over the last few weeks/months so if I'm honest all of the hate directed at Holly and Phil is definitely not justified when the decision to film the segment wasn't theirs to make.

I'm not convinced it was the show's idea to be honest. If it was they'd have surely organised an actual camera and sound to film two of their highest profile presenters on what would surely be the highlight of the entire package? Instead the whole thing was filmed on what looks like a phone by someone barely able to keep three people in frame. None of their interviews feel particularly produced by whoever was behind the camera either.

I believed their explanation until I saw the package. The whole thing reeks of Holly and Phil getting wind of press passes, promising to do the bare minimum to justify it for the show and then misjudging how the public would feel about it. The show's then had to come out to try and organise some damage control for their most important talent, as well as broadcast some pretty sub-standard mobile phone footage to help with that.

And by the way I'm not especially bothered by all this, but I think BS should be called out when it likely is BS. I also don't think this is necessarily just faux-Twitter outrage, my mum's certainly not a social media user but is very much in their target audience, and she sees this as yet another example of the rich getting an advantage over the poor in the public sphere.