Phillip Schofield brushes off This Morning controversy with theatre night alongside wife

express.co.uk:

This Morning have introduced the option to pay for a lucky viewer's bill up to £3,000 as part of the show's game Spin To Win.

While the intention meant well, viewers have branded the idea “tone deaf” and "dystopian" claiming the show had turned the cost of living crisis into “light entertainment”.After yesterday's game, Phillip Schofield, 60, ended the segment saying: “How much of that can they complain about online."His comment was slammed by a viewer named Mark Scales, who wrote: "Yes smug we can complain."It was poor taste paying an energy bill is not a luxury it’s a necessity that’s the point!"Ben Smoke added: "People are going to freeze to death this year because of energy crisis.

turning it into light entertainment is beyond bleak."'Terrible when you get caught out!' Karren Brady mocks Meghan MarkleKate Reilly commented: "I wonder how much of that they’ll complain about online’."Wow tone deaf, insensitive BS from Phillip Schofield and This Morning as ‘Spin To Win’ airs on TV again and us poor folk get the chance to survive the winter.

FML."(sic)Marion Main added: "I'm curious if @thismorning will apologise on air for the detestable Spin To Win wheel? Will it be removed without reference to the Twitter storm?"In yesterday's episode, the energy bills option was changed to household bills and today it was scrapped after hundreds of complaints were put forward to Ofcom.The hosts still mentioned that viewers could spend their prize money on bills, but it didn't featured as an option to be won.