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Richard Madeley avoids social media while presenting GMB after facing cruel trolling
Good Morning Britain presenter Richard Madeley has stopped looking at social media whenever he is on TV.He is fed up with trolls throwing a virtual “bucket of ordure” in his face.Madeley - often nicknamed Alan Partridge after the bungling telly host played by Steve Coogan -used to look at Twitter to gauge public opinion.He would surf the net when he co-hosted TV’s Richard and Judy chat show to see what people thought.But back then it seems folk were a lot kinder than now.He explained: “In the past, when Twitter was just getting into its stride, I would go on after Richard and Judy to see what people were saying about the show because it was interesting, sometimes critical, but not stupid or cruel.“Now, after doing Good Morning Britain, it’s like having a bucket of ordure thrown into your face. So I don’t look at it.”Madeley says that unlike some in the telly industry, he has had to learn to live with being scrutinised over everything he says and does on the box.He adds: “You have to learn to live with it, because if you can’t your life is going to be torture.“I’ve known some presenters pack it in because they couldn’t stand it.
