Richard Madeley first appeared on Good Morning Britain in 2017, however he is involved about the way forward for the present amid finances cuts and shrinking audiences
Richard Madeley opened up on his GMB future (Picture: ITV)
TV presenter Richard Madeley admits he has uncertainty over his Good Morning Britain job after ITV “slashed budgets” when audiences shrunk.
Richard, 70, first joined GMB as a aid presenter in 2017. He later transitioned to a everlasting rotating presenter function in 2021 earlier than present bosses named him one of many fundamental hosts earlier this 12 months.
The TV star, whose go to to one of many world’s most infamous prisons airs tonight (Wednesday, Could 27), admits he has some issues about his future. Showing on The Media Present on BBC Radio 4, Richard was requested whether or not he would comply with fellow presenter Piers Morgan in organising his personal YouTube channel.
Whereas he joked that will be “an excessive amount of like onerous work,” he admitted to worrying about the way forward for conventional tv.
He stated: “I do not know (if the TV he has labored in will survive into the long run). It is a bit just like the final days of the Roman Empire now in tv, and notably in business tv.
Richard Madeley along with his GMB colleague Susanna Reid (Picture: ITV)
“I imply, the brand new DG was speaking in regards to the funding cuts he’ll need to make, that is what’s occurred on GMB and daytime tv on ITV.
“Our budgets have been slashed as a result of the audiences have shrunk. So I do not know, I might not be on this place in a 12 months or two from now, however I hope I’m.”
Final 12 months ITV introduced big cuts to jobs and budgets for its daytime exhibits, together with Good Morning Britain, Lorraine, Free Ladies and This Morning. The cuts at ITV Studios, which makes all 4 exhibits, imply greater than 220 of 440 workers, confronted shedding their jobs.
Joking about whether or not he would arrange his personal YouTube, he stated: “Oh, it is an excessive amount of like onerous work. No, I am an old style geezer. I am very comfortable simply getting in a automobile, toddling all the way down to work, doing the job and going residence and having a bacon butty. I am probably not fascinated by shopping for a enterprise.”
Richard Madeley went into an El Salvador jail (Picture: Channel 5)
In a change of tempo for Richard, he visited the CECOT, a most safety jail in El Salvador. As the largest jail in Latin America, it’s estimated to carry between 15,000 and 20,000 inmates.
Richard talks to inmates residing beneath one of many strictest jail regimes on the planet whereas he additionally talks to the guards liable for working the jail 24/7.
The presenter stated: “What struck me immediately was the sheer scale of it, and the tales behind it. In assembly the individuals who run the jail and people residing inside it, what unfolds is an interesting and infrequently shocking have a look at justice, safety and the human realities behind the headlines. It’s been a exceptional expertise.”
Catch Richard Madeley: Contained in the World’s Mega Jail on Channel 5 tonight from 9pm to 10.30pm.
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