Good Morning Britain received 2,400 complaints after presenter Richard Madeley asked the UK MP if she had been warned about Hamas’ attack on Israel

Britain’s media regulator Ofcom said it had received nearly 2,400 complaints as a result Good morning Britain Presenter Richard Madeley asked a British MP with his family in Gaza if there was “anything on the streets” before Hamas launched its attack on Israel.

Madeley questioned Liberal Democrat MP Layla Moran on October 17, asking: “Given your family ties in Gaza, did you have any indication of what was going to happen ten days ago, two weeks ago? Was anything heard on the street?”

Moran replied: “Not that, not that. I think everybody is … everybody is surprised, to begin with, partly by the timing and the sophistication [and] how it happened.”

The exchange resulted in 2,378 complaints Good morning Britain The second most complained about ITV show of 2023. Bridgerton Star Adjoa Andoh’s comments about the ‘horribly white’ royal family during the coronation of King Charles III sparked 4,165 complaints in May.

After a clip of the interview went viral, Madeley apologized if his questioning of Moran “upset viewers.” “His intention was to understand the mood and atmosphere among Gaza’s civilian population shortly before the attacks,” a spokesman said. Good morning Britain said the speaker. “He did not mean to imply that she or her family knew about the attacks in advance.”

Moran later said she accepted the apology. “I think my face looked quite stunned at the time,” she told Sky News. “The entire conversation during the 15-minute interview was important. We looked at how we got here and where we were going. I didn’t and don’t have the feeling that it was born out of malice. I honestly think it comes from ignorance.”