Susanna Reid takes thinly veiled swipe at Holly and Phil after queuing for 7 hours to see Queen

19.09.2022 - 11:43 / ok.co.uk

Good Morning Britain's Susanna Reid has seemingly taken a swipe at This Morning presenters Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby by describing what a privilege it was to queue up with everyone else and pay her respects to the Queen.The TV host, 51, and her 81 year old mother queued for more than seven hours to file past the coffin of Her Majesty who had been Lying-in-State ahead of her funeral today (September 19). However, ITV colleagues, This Morning presenters Phil, 60, and Holly, 41, have faced backlash after they were spotted walking past queuing mourners inside Westminster Hall and paying their respects in a different line to the public.

The This Morning duo had been criticised for using their celebrity status to jump the queue when others including Susanna and also David Beckham queued with the rest of the public. During Good Morning Britain today, which has been dedicated to reporting on the hours leading up to the Queen's state funeral, Susanna discussed her experience of queuing to pay her respects to the Queen.

She said: "It is an enormous privilege to have been able to do that, to spend time paying our last respects, but also those hours in the queue as well, coming to an end now. "You can see the emotion etched on people's faces, I think almost the fact they are the last in the queue," before Ben added: "It's going to resonate further." Ben, 47, added: "It's huge commitment, when we were talking and you were in the queue I think for seven hours and 20 minutes in total with your mum and a friend.

"So very emotional that you could be together and we had that over and over again from people that met like-minded people that just wanted to feel connected in the queue. "When you do anything like that and