Graham Norton brands Holly and Phil 'foolish' as he says he turned down 'queue-jumping' ticket
27.09.2022 - 13:29
/ ok.co.uk
Television and radio host Graham Norton labelled Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield "foolish" as he had his say on the "queue jump" row.This Morning presenters Holly, 41, and Phil, 60, sent fans into meltdown after allegedly skipping the huge queue, with up to a 19-hour wait, to see the Queen lying-in-state at Westminster Hall.The pair responded to the backlash by explaining they were representing the media to report on the event for the "millions of people in the UK who haven't been able to visit Westminster in person". Graham, confirmed that he was also offered the chance to bypass the queue but decided not to as he thought he would "get in the neck" from members of the public who had waited extremely long line. On Radio 5 Live on Monday, presenter Nihal Arthanayake asked Graham: "You do read the room, right? You’d be very good at that.
Without question, you would go: 'What are the optics of this?'." Graham replied: "Well, for instance, okay recently, Phil and Holly….The Queue. So, as far as I’m concerned, they did nothing wrong. "There was a two-tier system.
You could queue jump! Yeah. Now I got offered a queue jump ticket by a friend of mine – he’s an MP and he said 'do you wanna come?' And I didn’t say yes – because I thought if anybody sees me I’ll get it in the neck." He continued: "I suppose what Phil and Holly got wrong was they thought people wouldn’t care. "I guess that that’s their crime.The actual queue jumping? They did nothing wrong.
Absolutely nothing wrong. But foolish of them to not think that people would be annoyed." Holly and Phil tried to justify their actions during their daytime show last Tuesday. In a pre-recorded VT, Holly said: "We were given official permission to access the hall, it was
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