{"id":240070,"date":"2023-11-01T15:28:43","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T15:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/?p=240070"},"modified":"2023-11-01T15:28:43","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T15:28:43","slug":"viewers-demand-richard-madeley-dropped-after-unacceptable-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/world-news\/viewers-demand-richard-madeley-dropped-after-unacceptable-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Viewers demand Richard Madeley dropped after &apos;unacceptable&apos; interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Good Morning Britain viewers demand Richard Madeley be dropped as he asks guest who lost 21 relatives when their house was bombed in Gaza: &#8216;How close were you to your brothers?&#8217;<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u00a0Ahmed Alnaouq lost 21 family members in one week after house was bombed<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Good Morning Britain&#8217;s viewers have demanded that Richard Madeley be dropped after he asked a guest who had lost 21 relatives in Gaza: &#8216;How close were you to your brothers?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed Alnaouq, who was a guest on ITV&#8217;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<p>The London-based journalist was left looking stunned after Madeley, 67, asked if he was &#8216;close&#8217; to his family.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s terror attack on Israel before it happened.<\/p>\n<p>The presenter said: &#8216;How close were you to your brothers?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/01\/14\/77272845-12697687-image-a-70_1698849137709.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>London-based journalist Ahmed Alnaouq (pictured) was left looking stunned after Madeley, 67, asked if he was &#8216;close&#8217; to his family<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/01\/14\/77272843-12697687-image-a-71_1698849140420.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>It comes just a week after the programme was hit with more than 2,300 complaints after the Madeley (pictured) sparked a backlash for asking a British-Palestinian MP if she knew about Hamas&#8217;s terror attack on Israel before it happened<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8216;Were they younger than you or older than you?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>And in a third question, he asked: &#8216;And a big feature in your life?&#8217;<\/p>\n<h3>READ MORE: Good Morning Britain is hit with 2,300 Ofcom complaints after Richard Madeley asked British-Palestinian MP Layla Moran if she &#8216;had any indication&#8217; about Hamas&#8217; terror attack on Israel<\/h3>\n<p>A shocked looking Mr Alnaouq responded: &#8216;Sorry?&#8217; &#8211; to which Madeley repeated: &#8216;They have been a big feature of your life?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>It came after an emotional start to the interview &#8211; where Mr\u00a0Alnaouq told how his family had moved to his home in Gaza because they thought it would be safer than their own.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They were sleeping in the early morning of October 22 when the bombs struck &#8211; with only two of his family surviving. One of these later succumbed to their injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to Madeley&#8217;s questioning, he said: &#8216;Of course. We grew up together. We lived all our life together.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I lived in Gaza all my life until I came here to the UK so we were very close.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Viewers reacted in fury after seeing the question &#8211; demanding that he be removed from the programme for his &#8216;unacceptable&#8217; questions.<\/p>\n<p>One &#8211; called Bernadette &#8211; raged: &#8216;Can Richard Madeley just be removed from this show now!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Ahmed explaining he lost 21 of his family members in Gaza and Richard asks: &#8220;How close were you to your brothers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/01\/14\/77273369-12697687-Madeley_s_pictured_questions_came_after_an_emotional_start_to_th-m-96_1698849784464.jpg\" height=\"725\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Madeley&#8217;s (pictured) questions\u00a0came after an emotional start to the interview &#8211; 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<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/01\/14\/77272835-12697687-image-a-72_1698849162905.jpg\" height=\"123\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/01\/14\/77272831-12697687-image-a-74_1698849408002.jpg\" height=\"199\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/01\/14\/77272833-12697687-image-a-73_1698849406153.jpg\" height=\"87\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/01\/14\/77272827-12697687-image-a-75_1698849410866.jpg\" height=\"172\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Viewers reacted in fury after seeing the question &#8211; demanding that he be removed from the programme for his &#8216;unacceptable&#8217; questions<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;What part of that question is acceptable?&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another &#8211; called Phil Blues &#8211; said: &#8216;Dear ITV, Please get Richard Madeley off Good Morning Britain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;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 neices and nephews &#8211; how close were you to your brothers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He is without compassion or morals.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A third, Amjid Khan, fumed: &#8216;Richard Madeley is a buffoon and why he&#8217;s even allowed near people is baffling&#8230;&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>And Shirley Anne Smith quoted Mark Twain &#8211; brutally saying: &#8216;It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>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\u00a0she knew about Hamas&#8217;s terror attack on Israel before it happened<\/p>\n<p>Madeley apologised the same day for upsetting viewers, with a GMB spokesperson adding his intention was to &#8216;understand the mood and atmosphere&#8217; 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