The Wright Stuff's biggest scandals - on-air dumping, live resignation and murder joke
dailystar.co.ukIt all came to an end in May 2018, when the popular presenter announced live on the air that he was stepping back from the show."There is not a lot to say really, other than the fact – you know better than most – the demands of getting up for a daytime show," he explained to panelist Anne Diamond, who hosted the original version of Good Morning Britain."I'm not going to equate it with digging roads, which is hard as well, but the old brain!
I'm up at three o'clock in the morning these days. I go to bed at half seven. I've had 18 and a half years of it."Mrs Wright, we pass like ships in the night.
And you are looking around thinking at some point you have got to have a change."It was suggested at the time that Matthew was furious after producers asked him to apologise for a comment made by show guest, The Chase star Anne Hegerty, for a comment she made to transgender activist Paris Lees while they were discussing the gender pay gap.Paris asked her fellow guest: "So you don't think there's an old boys club at the top then?"To which Anne replied: "No, no, not really.
Well, you used to be a boy, you'd know that."The awkward moment was diluted when Matthew leaped in to move the conversation along.
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