This Morning in chaos after technical blunder forces show off air for 15 minutes as Alison Hammond admits ‘we’ve have a few gremlins in the system’
This Morning was forced off air for 15 minutes on Friday after a technical issue wreaked havoc and accidentally played a series of random old clips.
Viewers took to X, formerly Twitter, worrying about what had happened to the show after old footage of Josie Gibson and Julia Bradbury cropped up on the programme, before a message read: ‘We are sorry for the disruption to your schedule.
‘We will return to normal programming as soon as we can’.
Presenters Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary then reappeared and apologised – but viewers complained the lengthy absence had ‘taken the wheels off the show’.
Alison said: ‘Welcome back to This Morning. Now we do apologise we’ve had a few gremlins in the system and we’re sorting it, aren’t we?’
This Morning was forced off air for 15 minutes on Friday after a technical issue wreaked havoc and accidentally played a series of random old clips
Dermot added: ‘Three lovely films to watch. It’s almost like Giles went backstage and fiddled with a couple of buttons just so we could have a little lie down.’
They were joined in the studio by Gyles Brandreth and Isla Traquair to resume the Morning View segment of the show.
Former politician Gyles, 75, – who has been married to Michèle Brown since 1973 – joked that whenever he does appear on the show, his wife puts the television on mute.
He said: ‘Well, I tell you, when I am on, my wife turns the sound down so she wouldn’t have missed it!’
Alison added: ‘So she’s turning it back up now? I love live TV.’
This Morning also took to X to address the disruption. They wrote: ‘Apologies for the technical issues, we’ll be back with you as soon as possible!’
But viewers were less-than-impressed saying the technical issue had ‘taken the wheels off the show’.
They wrote: ‘Whatever the technical issue was, it’s taken the wheels off the show – Alison & Dermot are all over the place. Wonder which segments have been scrapped in that 15 minutes of down-time’.
This Morning also took to X to address the disruption. They wrote: ‘Apologies for the technical issues, we’ll be back with you as soon as possible!’
Presenters Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary then reappeared and apologised to viewers, who were thoroughly confused by the 15-minute absence
They were joined in the studio by Gyles Brandreth and Isla Traquair to resume the Morning View segment of the show
Viewers were less-than-impressed saying the technical issue had ‘taken the wheels off the show’
Others said: ‘How to patronise your viewers: “gremlins”. You should be honest with your audience’ and ‘So come on what happened then’.
‘Where on earth has This Morning gone?’, wrote another.
Alison and Dermot shrugged off the halt to the show and went on to interview guest star, actress Eleanor Tomlinson.