EXCLUSIVE: Munya Chawawa, the British-Zimbabwean comedian, is hoping to translate his wildly viral online sketches into his own television show.
21.12.2022 - 13:29 / deadline.com
Complaints both berating and defending Matt Hancock and his participation in I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! dominate UK regulator Ofcom’s top-10 list of most complained about TV incidents of the year.
Just shy of 2,000 complainants “objected to the inclusion” of the former Health Secretary in the series, drawing the second highest number of complaints, while 627 people objected to “bullying behavior” against him, which came eighth on the list.
Hancock’s double appearance in the annual complaints rundown demonstrates the way in which the politician, who is blamed by many for multiple Covid-19 mishaps and was outed for having an affair while breaking his own Covid guidance, divided the nation.
As the ITV entertainment series wore on, his popularity grew amid vitriol from fellow contestants such as Boy George, and Hancock ended up reaching the final and coming third.
The most complained about show according to Ofcom was an episode of Love Island, with 2,630 people flagging “alleged misogynistic and bullying behavior by some contestants in the villa.”
Others to feature in the top 10 included trans comedian Jordan Gray’s appearance on Channel 4’s Friday Night Live when she played the piano with her penis, comments made about death threats to Labour leader Keir Starmer on ITV’s Good Morning Britain and the recent remarks by pundit Gary Neville comparing Qatari working conditions to the UK during ITV’s World Cup Final coverage.
Complaints were slashed compared from the prior year, however, with just 36,543 compared to more than 150,000 in 2021.
That year saw the most complained about UK TV moment of all time when Piers Morgan rejected Meghan Markle’s suicide claims on Good Morning Britain, a tirade that led to his
EXCLUSIVE: Munya Chawawa, the British-Zimbabwean comedian, is hoping to translate his wildly viral online sketches into his own television show.
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