Susanna Reid celebrates GMB’s high viewership figures, after being ‘furious’ over mistakes in the show
Susanna Reid was over the moon this week when she celebrated Good Morning Britain’s ‘fantastic’ viewing figures.
The 52-year-old broadcaster took to Twitter to share her delight that the breakfast news show has hit its highest numbers since June 2021.
And it seems like it was a necessary improvement, after the presenter was said to have been furious earlier this week following a series of embarrassing bugs on GMB.
Susanna reportedly “made her feelings very clear” and confronted top executives after a series of blunders and mistakes found their way onto the live stream.
Misspellings, incorrect dates, and incorrect graphic designs have crept in during the show’s live broadcasts in recent weeks, leaving the host reportedly embarrassed.
Susanna Reid celebrated GMB’s sky-high viewership figures this week while celebrating the highest number
Sharing a screenshot of herself and co-host Ben Shephard on the show on Twitter this Friday, Susanna detailed her delight for the fans who tuned in to the show.
She wrote: ‘GRADES: Excellent numbers for @gmb’s highest Thursday numbers yesterday (and a great week) since June 2021, up 9% and +3.8 participation points compared to the same day last year. .
‘We love that you’re watching. We’ll be back on Monday with @benshephard’.
While earlier this week, it was reported that Susanna was unhappy with the mistakes the production team was making on the show.
Among the errors was an incident in which news correspondent Ben Chapman’s name was misspelled during his live broadcast from Romania.
As Ranvir Singh introduced the segment, he introduced Ben for his section, with his name appearing on screen as ‘Ben Champan’.
In another incident, GMB aired a segment paying tribute to the death of Lisa Marie Presley, with the word “remember” also misspelled on the screen, as the graphic read: “Remember.”
And that was not all, since one morning Susanna was presenting the program with a wrong date.
Happy about it: Sharing a snap of herself and co-host Ben Shephard on the show on Twitter this Friday, Susanna detailed her delight for fans tuning in to the show
Furious? And it seems that was some needed encouragement, after the presenter was said to have been furious earlier this week following a series of embarrassing blunders on GMB.
said a source Sun: ‘He made his feelings very clear and confronted senior executives about it.
“Susanna is totally professional and just wants high standards, just like Piers or any other presenter would have.
“The last thing anyone wants is for her to walk away in a huff.”
Susanna doesn’t appear to be the only one aggravated by the bugs, as some viewers took to Twitter during live morning shows to highlight GMB’s bugs.
Calling up a poster he had made for rugby player Levi Simeon Davis, who went missing in October 2022, many noticed that the wrong year was printed on the graphic.
“@gmb your poster for Levi’s disappearance has the wrong date, it says October 2023,” he wrote in the viewer.
Oops: Among the errors was an incident where news correspondent Ben Chapman’s name was misspelled during a live broadcast from Romania.
Fatal error: While another incident saw GMB broadcast a segment paying tribute to Lisa Marie Presley, with the word “remember” incorrectly spelled on screen as “remember”.
Get noticed: Susanna doesn’t seem to be the only one aggravated by the bugs, as some viewers took to Twitter during live morning shows to call out GMB for their mistakes.
While another advised: “Your poster shown on the news this morning for the missing man is incorrect, please check the date it is displayed, October 2023 #GMB.”
Good Morning Britain also ran into trouble last week, but this time it was a verbal error by the presenter Richard rather than a typo.
The host apologized for mistaking Sam Smith, who uses the pronouns they/they.
Richard had been debating whether Sam’s latest music video for I’m Not Here To Make Friends is too sexualized when the slip-up occurred, where he accidentally referred to Sam as “he”.
Co-host Susanna was quick to correct her mistake, and Richard later apologized.
And while a panel was discussing the video, Richard also confused guest Shivani Dave, who uses they/them pronouns.
Richard apologized a second time, saying: ‘I’m so sorry. I will learn to do that.
Shivani later tweeted: “I’ve been getting messages from people who are worried I’ve been misled by Richard Madley on @GMB.”
I corrected it, he apologized and took it into account. A masterclass in how to do things if you screw up, we shared a thumbs up and I told him his hair looks great.
Sorry: Good Morning Britain also got into trouble last week when presenter Richard Madeley apologized for confusing Sam Smith, who uses they/them pronouns.
Wrong: Richard had been debating whether or not Sam’s latest music video for I’m Not Here To Make Friends was too sexualized when he made a mistake by accidentally referring to Sam as “he”.
Having grown up in Croydon and studying broadcast journalism, Susanna got her big break presenting on BBC Breakfast from 2003 to 2014 with the late Bill Turnbull, before moving to Good Morning Britain.
There she had the famously unenviable task of trying to speak on the fringes alongside Piers Morgan, until he abruptly left in March 2021 following comments he made about the Duchess of Sussex.
Since then there has been no permanent male presenter, but a rotating cast including Richard Madeley, Martin Lewis, Ed Balls and Rob Rinder.
Susanna’s on-air fights
While Susanna is often praised for keeping her composure during live broadcasts, there have been incidents where she has let her emotions out in the past.
Earlier in the week, Susanna launched a vicious attack on former Health Secretary Matt Hancock.
The host asked him if his affair with deputy Gina Coladangelo in fact violated the law and continued to question him about lockdown laws at the time while trying to change the subject.
She was praised by viewers who took to Twitter to call the interview a “master class” for any aspiring political journalist.
In November, Susanna launched a withering attack on a Just Stop Oil spokesperson this morning after the group stopped traffic on the M25 again by climbing onto gantries at multiple junctions.
When the group’s spokesperson claimed that the media was not reporting the events effectively, Susanna launched into an impassioned tirade, telling him: ‘You have no idea what this show is doing… And you have the audacity to come here. and say that we are completely distracted and we are not talking about the problems?
We talk about them every morning, son.
In 2021, Susanna was unimpressed when her co-host at the time, Alastair Campbell, told her to “feel your wrinkled apples” during an impassioned tirade about a shoddy Ocado installment.
Susanna didn’t seem amused when the former Labor press strategist ranted about the state of his fruit, which the grocery company blamed on a shortage of pickers, truckers and CO2.
The host was also famous for her hilarious run-ins with former co-host Piers Morgan, with the pair disagreeing on numerous occasions.
Strange: While Susanna is often praised for keeping her composure during live broadcasts, there have been incidents where she has let her emotions out in the past.