Richard Madeley blasted for not shutting up during ‘disgraceful’ GMB interview with Mick Lynch over train strikes-Cydney Yeates-Entertainment – Metro

Richard Madeley has angered Good Morning Britain viewers for continuously speaking over Mick Lynch during a tense interview about the latest train strikes on Tuesday’s episode.

Lynch, who is the general secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT), joined the ITV programme to answer questions about the month of industrial action, which starts today (December 13).

However, the interview came to a standstill when Madeley became fixated on when the Christmas period begins.

‘Why couldn’t you have put all these strikes in January?’ Madeley began. ‘Why do you have to target people at Christmas? You’ll be putting people out of business who run hotels, who run restaurants, who run bars, and retail.

‘This is the time of year when they make their money and you’re robbing them of their income for the coming year.’

Richard Madeley has been blasted for his handling of an interview with Mick Lynch on GMB (Picture: ITV)

Lynch couldn’t get a word in edgeways as Madeley argued about when the Christmas period begins (Picture: ITV)

‘Well, we’re not targeting Christmas,’ Lynch insisted. ‘It isn’t Christmas yet, Richard. I don’t know when your Christmas starts, but mine starts on Christmas Eve.’

It’s over this point that Madeley and Lynch clashed, with the interview quickly descending into chaos.

‘That’s disingenuous!’ Madeley interrupted. ‘Commercial Christmas starts in December, you know that.’

‘It’s not disingenuous is it,’ Lynch replied.

‘It is disingenuous, of course it is,’ the Good Morning Britain host fired back.

‘Commercial Christmas does not start on Christmas Eve. Christmas Eve is when people shut early. Commercial Christmas starts at the end of November and through December and that’s when people make their money, and you are depriving them of their income!’

RMT workers have walked out for 48 hours, the first of two strikes which will shut down the network this week after fresh pay talks broke down (Picture: Getty)

‘Have you finished then? You’re just ranting…,’ the RMT boss pointed out.

But Lynch still couldn’t get a word in, with Madeley continuing to speak up. ‘I won’t let you get away with nonsense,’ he doubled down.

‘You’re just talking to yourself now, Richard,’ Lynch eventually said. ‘Richard, why don’t you just interview yourself?’

‘I’m holding you to account on behalf of the viewers, not on behalf of myself’ Madeley barked.

‘No you’re not, you’re just talking to yourself at the moment,’ his guest said.

Viewers were ripping their hair out over the scenes and vented their frustration on social media.

‘For goodness sake, someone shut Madeley up!’ one begged. ‘Ranting when Xmas starts, what an absolute disgrace he is!’

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Echoing a similar sentiment, another pleaded: ‘Richard Madeley let the man speak…you asked the question then continued to talk so he couldn’t answer.’

‘What a truly TERRIBLE interviewer Richard Madeley is! That was disgraceful this morning,’ a third ranted.

Another entertaining day of breakfast television interviews…

Much of the country, including most of Wales and Scotland, will have no trains at all until Friday, and a small number of remaining services will only run between 7.30am and 6.30pm.

Good Morning Britain airs weekdays from 6am on ITV1.

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