This Morning presenter Rylan Clark has recalled the moment he tossed a senior TV person’s coffee to the ground after confronting them over disrespecting a junior member of staff. The incident occurred when he was a guest on someone else’s show, although he did not name the person in question, nor did he confirm how long ago it happened.
“This industry has changed how things work, how people are treated. Everyone is the same, and that’s how I like to work on my shows. I don’t care about hierarchy…” he said. “I’ve been in situations where I’ve seen someone talk to a runner like s***, and it wasn’t the first time I’ve seen this happen, but I felt before that I wasn’t at maybe a level or a stature or something…where I could say something… Then, yeah, a couple of years back, I was in a situation,” he shared.
Speaking on the High Performance podcast, hosted by sports broadcaster Jake Humphrey and organisational psychologist Professor Damian Hughes he continued: “I saw someone talk, weren’t even my show…I was a guest on a on a show.
“I just heard, I could just hear it, but almost weirdly see it before it happened, because you do, don’t you? I saw someone speak to a runner like s***, just because they bought the wrong coffee. [The] runner was about 17 and I just went, ‘Who the f*** are you talking to?’
“And I just saw their face drop. I went: ‘Are you joking?’ [They said:] ‘Oh, no, no. I didn’t mean it like that’. In response he confessed he had told them: “Well the f****** damage is done now.”
He then said he took the coffee and threw it on the floor telling them: “Go and get your own f****** coffee,” before taking the runner outside.
The radio host sparked more than 700 Ofcom complaints when he said: “This country is built on immigration. Legal immigration – a lot of the nurses and doctors who have saved my mum’s life have come over here from other countries. They’re living a great life, they’re paying into this tax system, they’re helping this country thrive.”
However, he expressed his concern about people crossing the Channel illegally and suggested that Keir Starmer’s Government’s approach seemed too accommodating.
“How can it be that if I turn up at Heathrow Airport as a British citizen and I’ve left my passport in Spain, I’ve got to stand at that airport and won’t be let in. But if I arrive on a boat from Calais, I get taken to a four-star hotel?” he asked.
