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Rob Rinder addresses whether he’d ever join Good Morning Britain permanently after outpouring of praise from viewers-Sabrina Barr-Entertainment – Metro
He praised the ‘extraordinary’ people behind the camera.
Rob has proven a massive hit among viewers (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/Rex/Shutterstock)
Rob Rinder has opened up on whether he’d consider presenting Good Morning Britain on a permanent basis after being highly praised for his previous appearances by viewers.
Ever since Piers Morgan quit GMB in March 2021, a steady stream of temporary hosts have fronted the ITV programme alongside Susanna Reid, including Richard Madeley, Adil Ray and Richard Bacon.
Rob, who first began starring on Judge Rinder in 2014, has been lauded by fans for his ‘intelligence’ and ‘compassion’ while co-hosting the series, so much so that many have called for him to be made a permanent fixture with Susanna – who he described as a ‘very, very special person’.
Metro.co.uk recently had the opportunity to speak to Rob, where the question was posed to him on whether he would consider staying on full-time.
The barrister – who recently teamed up with cleaning brand method for their ‘Clean Up Pre-Nup’ campaign – admitted that while he ‘doesn’t know about permanently’, there is a ‘possibility’ for future appearances, so viewers should ‘watch this space’.
‘I really enjoyed my time doing it. It’s a really challenging job. It’s three hours of live television and making sure you’re on top of the brief,’ the 44-year-old said.
Rob applauded his friend Susanna on her ‘deep and rich professionalism’ on GMB (Picture: ITV)
‘The people that make that programme, they’re up all night. The people in front of the camera represent the tiniest element of this extraordinary community of professionals that make that show happen, people that have worked unbelievably hard.’
Rob explained that in his view when people are on TV, they get ‘disproportionate praise’ and ‘sometimes criticism’ as the faces of a show.
‘It’s like standing by the goal line – I can’t believe I’m actually using a football analogy,’ he said.
‘Everyone else does the work, you just push the ball over. It’s a great team and there’s such good energy being part of that programme. It feels like it matters and it feels like it has the capacity to really shape public discussions. I think that’s an enormously exciting thing to do.’
Rob stressed how much work goes on behind the scenes (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/Rex/Shutterstock)
He added: ‘I doubt very much that I’d be a permanent fixture. I don’t know, but who knows what will happen in the future.’
Saying that he expects he’ll appear on the show ‘from time to time’ rather than as a ‘regular thing’, Rob said: ‘I think that’s the potential possibility. So watch this space.’
In August this year, Rob and GMB newsreader Marverine Cole were widely commended for the way they dealt with a guest who suggested that shootings that had happened in Liverpool were down to ‘an issue in the Black community’, with Rob admitting he’d initially ‘missed’ what the guest had said when Marverine called out his remarks.
‘People broker that by saying no offence, but that is a deeply stupid thing to say,’ Rob said on the show at the time.
Rob and Marverine received high praise for the way they dealt with the situation (Picture: Rex/ITV)
While speaking to Metro.co.uk, he stressed that the situation was an example of not only how ‘diversity matters’ on a programme like GMB, but also that ‘diversity with power matters’.
‘In that situation, there’s Marverine sitting there, and because of the community at GMB, she felt totally safe. She felt sufficiently safe and consequently empowered to say hang on a minute. I turned to her because I hadn’t heard, and there was immediate collegiate trust that had been said, not a doubt in my mind,’ he recalled.
‘In those circumstances where somebody has said something deeply stupid, that you have a person of colour there immediately who feels empowered to go “excuse me” – we have a person of colour who feels empowered to speak, while at the same time there’s an immediate [sense] of shared ownership and allyship.
As well as presenting the news on GMB, Marverine also works on Classic FM (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/Rex/Shutterstock)
‘What allyship is, is that we have a daily ongoing responsibility to call stuff out wherever we hear it. You have an enduring responsibility where you hear prejudice wherever it exists, wherever it’s vocalised, to call it out, and to use it sometimes as an opportunity for education.’
The former Strictly star continued, outlining how that situation in particular demonstrated ‘two things’ – ‘Allyship to a degree, but much more importantly, when you have a diverse community – be it one with LGBTQ people or people of colour and people from different classes, social backgrounds – you don’t just get a better tapestry of views.
‘You also have people sufficiently empowered because they have lived experiences to go, “I know that to be wrong.” That’s an enormous thing and ultimately works better for everybody.’
One of Rob’s recent projects has involved him collaborating with cleaning brand method for their ‘Clean Up Pre-Nup’ campaign, to promote equal splitting of household tasks among cohabitors.
The alternative pre-nup is a signed agreement challenging gender stereotypes on how chores are split and promoting equality in the home, which can also apply to same-sex couples who might find themselves in similar situations regarding who’s taking on which responsibilities in the household.
Good Morning Britain airs weekdays from 6am on ITV.
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