Loose Women star slammed after calling missing Titanic explorers 'selfish billionaires'
dailyrecord.co.ukLoose Women viewers were furious with Janet Street-Porter's comments on today's show as she spoke about the devastating case of the missing Titanic submarine, insinuating that she feels it was a 'selfish' move of the five passengers onboard.Former journalist Janet said that she thinks that each of the passengers on board the tourist submarine 'must have known' the risks involved in undertaking such a huge mission to explore the 'graveyard' of the sunken Titanic ship, writes The Mirror.She then went on to claim that the rescue mission crew are risking their lives to save the 'billionaires' on board the submarine - and they are being paid 'a lot less' to risk it all in order to save what some would call the 'selfish' passengers.The missing tourist submersible with British billionaire Hamish Harding on board has a one percent chance of being found and rescued safely, an expert predicted earlier today.
A massive search and rescue operation is currently underway in the mid Atlantic after the tourist submarine went missing during a dive to the sunken Titanic shipwreck on Sunday.
However, after hearing Janet's comments on the matter, many Loose Women viewers hit out at the 'insensitivity' of the topic discussed on today's panel.One wrote: "Janet has basically just called the missing people 'selfish billionaires'.
She couldn't have been less compassionate."Another added: "Gosh, hard watch on Loose Women. Imagine those people's families.
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