Rylan Clark said there is “something wrong” with how refugees are “welcomed” into the UK in a now infamous This Morning segment.
Rylan Clark uttered eight words after his anti-immigration speech (Image: ITV)
Rylan Clark uttered eight simple words when This Morning cut to an ad break after his explosive anti-immigration speech. The X Factor star was on the ITV show on August 27, alongside Josie Gibson, Camilla Tominey and Tim Campbell, and noted that while healthcare professionals from “other countries” saved his mum Linda’s life, he didn’t agree with how they are crossing the Channel.
He said at the time: “I find it absolutely insane that all these people are risking their lives coming across the Channel. And when they get here, it does seem, and I think this is why a lot of Labour voters as well are saying there’s something wrong, it feels like, ‘Welcome, come on in’. That’s the narrative we’re being fed.”
Now Camilla has exposed the eight words Rylan said after the segment. Speaking on former BBC presenter Andrew Gold’s Heretics podcast, she was asked: “Did the Rylan moment feel as big as it turned out to be, in the moment, for you?”
Camilla said: “I kind of thought, ‘Oh, he’s putting his neck out’. And then we had a break in between and he goes, ‘I’m going to get absolutely pilloried for this’.”
Gold replied: “He’s probably sitting there going, ‘F***ing hell’.” But Tominey was desperate to disprove that theory, telling him: “No, I don’t think so. I think he actually… I think Rylan is very misunderstood. I think he’s actually a really bright guy.
“I think he’s very well read and I think he has a persona – he said this himself – he is Rylan, and then he is himself. And he’s a very capable broadcaster both on TV and radio. He’s been around the block a bit. He knows what he thinks. He isn’t afraid to express it.
The segment was hit with hundreds of Ofcom complaints (Image: Getty)
“I think it was more in the vein of ‘I’m going to get pilloried’ as in, ‘This is what life is like these days’ than a fearful, ‘Oh my God’.”
Gold commented: “But I don’t know if he’s been allowed on since.”
Tominey explained: “Well, they’ve kind of reconstituted the show a bit, because it’s now Cat and Ben doing the main stuff, Dermot and Alison doing the Fridays. I think they’d be absolutely ludicrous to not let him back on because he’s one of the best guest presenters they have.”
Gold echoed: “Well I’ve heard from Rob Rinder as well, that apparently Rylan is very smart.”
