Another day, another step closer to Richard Madeley actually becoming Alan Partridge.
Today he was talking about Shamima Begum wanting to return to the UK.
The Bethnal Green teenager, who travelled to Syria to join the Islamic State, yesterday restated her desire to return to Britain – claiming she would “love” to help rehabilitate extremists.
Begum, now 21, said she was “just a dumb kid” and not a terrorist when she left London to join IS. “I don’t think I was a terrorist. I think I was jut a dumb kid who made one mistake,” she told filmmakers at the al-Roj prison camp in Syria, where she remains after being stripped of her British citizenship.
“I personally don’t think that I need to be rehabilitated, but I would want to help other people be rehabilitated. I would love to help.”
So on today’s GMB he went on a rant about her, and it has to be watched to be believed.
Susanna Reid looked like she wanted a sinkhole to appear under her chair and swallow her into the bowels of the earth.
Watch
GB News may have raised the bar but Richard Madeley has just pole-vaulted over itpic.twitter.com/4Osf7oSn3p
— Matthew Champion (@matthewchampion) June 16, 2021
Reactions
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Honestly it’s just genius. There’s no way Richard Madeley isn’t a character. https://t.co/oCXdHlgQSW
— Connor Wakefield (@Wakefield__) June 16, 2021
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Susanna’s face here is absolute gold. It’s more Partridge than anything Coogan has ever written. https://t.co/1veFhKSUYa
— HLTCO (@HLTCO) June 16, 2021
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GB News may have raised the bar but Richard Madeley has just pole-vaulted over itpic.twitter.com/4Osf7oSn3p
— Matthew Champion (@matthewchampion) June 16, 2021
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His transformation to complete Partridge is almost done. pic.twitter.com/UgHokSvlmg
— cluedont (@cluedont) June 16, 2021
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— Vallas record shop (@DirtyBarry5) June 16, 2021
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Susannah Reid has never looked more like a hostage. https://t.co/7wrzJ5dTAH
— Sam Whyte (@SamWhyte) June 16, 2021
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I just can’t stop watching it. The sheer economy of it. It’s a total masterpiece.
— Tom Peck (@tompeck) June 16, 2021
Not a word wasted, not a flash of the eyebrow too many. Tattoos, one night stands, the Nuremberg Trials. It’s all there and it’s just solid gold.
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Susanna Reid didn’t breathe from the moment he said Nuremberg trials https://t.co/gQRX6ZfHv8
— Nooruddean (@BeardedGenius) June 16, 2021
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