[brioalex]

I don’t think Holly or Phil should resign because of this. It’s not like they have done something that goes against the terms in their contracts at ITV. Whatever happened here, it was definitely a misjudged decision by ITV, This Morning, the producer, editor, Holly and Phil… whoever it was didn’t exactly make the right call but to cause all this fuss over a queue is just crazy.

I don’t think their actions caused anyone who wanted to see the Queen any harm, no one missed their chance to see the lying in state because they just happened to be passing through Westminster Hall. The queue and filing past weren’t stopped because they were in the hall either.

I agree the whole thing looks bad, the way it’s being spun doesn’t help that either. It all boils down to being a poor judgement for an item that was supposedly meant to be a segment in the show on Tuesday. If anything you could say in hindsight Holly and Phil could’ve pushed back on the idea by explaining it probably wouldn’t look good from the public’s point of view but then again we don’t know if this happened and I can only assume if they did some ITV executive would’ve told them to go ahead anyway because a story is a story after all these days…