Susanna Reid forces Ed Balls to apologise for explicit remark

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Susanna Reid stepped in on Tuesday’s Good Morning Britain to force her co-host to apologise after an explicit remark.

Ed Balls, 56, had only been repeating a comment he had heard – but Susanna wasn’t having any of it.

The pair were discussing Education Secretary Gillian Keegan making headlines after she was caught on camera saying others ‘sat on their a***’ over the concrete crisis hitting schools across the nation.

The MP had just finished filming an ITV News interview when she voiced her frustrations, while still on camera.

Heard on the microphone she was still wearing, Ms Keegan asked those in the room: ‘Does anyone ever say, “You know what, you’ve done a f****** good job,” because everyone else has sat on their a*** and done nothing?

‘No signs of that, no?’

In a follow-up interview Ms Keegan apologised for her ‘choice language’ and said it was an ‘off-the-cuff remark’.

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Talking about the incident on Good Morning Britain, Ed began: ‘Who was she annoyed at? Who was she saying was sitting on their a***?’

‘You can’t say that word!’ Susanna quickly interrupted.

‘We just had it on the television,’ he tried to defend.

Susanna went on: ‘I know, even though the education secretary said it, you might have noticed I then apologised for it.’

‘I would like to apologise for the fact that I said what the education secretary said, who is in charge of all the schools in our country and the wellbeing of all young people under the age of 18,’ Ed then said.

‘I used the same language as her which I thought was acceptable and it’s not.

‘And I would like to apologise.’

Becoming quite flustered, Ed then added: ‘You just played it on the programme, I thought it was okay!’

‘I am so sorry!’

‘We are mired in apologies this morning,’ Susanna joked.

Later in the episode, Ed quipped: ‘Never use that language on national television… I’m told!’

Good Morning Britain airs weekdays from 6am on ITV1.

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