Naga Munchetty skewered as 'out of touch' BBC slammed by GB News star
GB News presenter Patrick Christys called out the BBC following Kemi Badenoch's interview with the broacaster. The Conservative Party leader appeared on BBC Breakfast on Friday (April 11) to discuss local elections with presenters Charlie Stayt and Naga Munchetty, but the conversation soon turned to the Netflix drama, Adolescence.
It came after prime minister Sir Keir Starmer announced during a meeting with the creators of Adolescence that the show would be made free to watch in all British schools.
Asked if she had watched the hard-hitting show, which Munchetty, 50, called a "documentary", Badenoch said: "No, no, I haven’t. I probably won’t. It’s a film on Netflix and most of my time right now is spent visiting [people] in this country."
After being probed about why she had no interest in watching it, Badenoch reiterated: "Those are all important issues, and they’re all issues I’ve been talking about for a long time.
"But for the same reason that I don’t need to watch Casualty to know what’s going on in the NHS, I don’t need to watch a Netflix drama to understand what’s going on [in schools]. It’s a fictional series, it’s not a documentary."
Before playing a clip of the interview on GB News, presenter Patrick Christys asked viewers to take a look at "the way the BBC decided to treat this".
Christys took aim at the presenter as he continued: "Naga Munchetty went on to call it a documentary, seriously, with a straight face, not once but twice."
He later slammed the BBC, saying: "What I found absolutely bonkers was that the BBC had the leader of the opposition there. We had all sorts of stuff going on in the news and they revisisted a story from at least two weeks ago about Kemi Badenoch where she'd not watched Adolescence and they hauled her over the coals for it and called it a documentary.
"Doesn't that tell you everything you need to know about how out of touch the BBC is?"
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