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‘What were you thinking?’ Lorraine Kelly confronts disgraced tractor porn MP Neil Parish in bizarre interview-Tori Brazier-Entertainment – Metro
Parish was caught watching porn by two female MPs.
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Lorraine Kelly sat down with former Tory MP Neil Parish for a probing – and at times hard to watch – interview on Monday, following his resignation from Parliament after confessing to watching porn in the House of Commons in April.
Dubbed the ‘tractorgate porn MP’, Parish – who represented Tiverton and Honiton – got a grilling from Lorraine as he attempted to address his actions at the time, which viewers describing his responses as ‘toe curling’.
Lorraine didn’t hold back in their interview as she kicked off with a direct and disbelieving: ‘What were you thinking?’
Calling it a ‘moment of madness’, Parish said he ‘did the right thing’ by apologising and then leaving Parliament, although he admitted: ‘I should have done it even quicker than I did. I think I went into sort of denial really and I think I went into shock, and I just thought, “Well perhaps if I pretend it hadn’t happened then it hasn’t happened.”’
‘I wasn’t proud of what I was doing, I knew I was wrong what I was doing,’ he added.
Referring to the ‘great support’ of his wife on the first of several occasions, Parish also insisted that he ‘didn’t flaunt’ as he apologised to the two female MPs who saw what he was doing.
Lorraine didn’t hold back during the interview (Picture: ITV)
Former MP Neil Parish’s answers were mocked by viewers (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/REX/Shutterstock)
‘I promise you – and my wife will back me on that, who’s a great support – I don’t flaunt, I really don’t.’
He also made the excuse, although he called it ‘no justification’, that he looked at porn ‘because I was bored’ as he waited to go into vote at 11:30pm.
However, Lorraine cut in: ‘But how do you go from tractors to porn?’
She also got the 66-year-old to agree that he was ‘guilty of’ looking at porn a second time, after he said he had unwittingly followed a link from a tractor website the first time.
The presenter was visibly baffled at points (Picture: ITV)
Parish made an alarming revelation about his wife and a pair of scissors too (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/REX/Shutterstock)
Parish then got a slightly baffled reaction from Lorraine when he revealed that his wife chased him around the kitchen ‘going snicker-snack’ with a pair of scissors ‘and we all know the bit of anatomy she’s after’.
‘Neil Parish running his tractor all over Johnson. Not sure his rehabilitation will be helped by the scissors bombshell…’ one viewer tweeted, while another commented: ‘Did Neil Parish really just tell #Lorraine that his wife chases him around the kitchen with a pair of scissors saying “snip or snap”?’
‘Sorry what? Neil Parish on @GMB [sic] describing his wife chasing him round the kitchen with scissors to cut off his **** Lorraine moved swiftly on. Did I imagine this?’ asked one shocked viewer.
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‘This Neil Parish interview… what is happening??????? I’m scared,’ wrote another.
However, Parish ended his chat with Lorraine saying that it had been ‘therapeutic’ to speak with her, with the presenter responding: ‘I’ve ever been called that before, but I’ll take it.’
Lorraine airs at on weekdays at 9am on ITV.
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