Graham Norton has come to the defence of Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield as the pressure over Queue-gate rumbles on.
Earlier this month the This Morning presenters sparked outrage when they used press privileges to enter Westminster Hall, where The Queen was lying in state, rather than waiting for hours in the general queue.
ITV has insisted that they did not jump the queue but instead used a special entrance reserved for accredited journalists, with Willoughby claiming that they had made the visit in order to "report" on the occasion.
Speaking on 5 Live about the furore, chat show host Norton said: "So, as far as I'm concerned, they did nothing wrong. There was a two-tier system. You could queue jump.
"Now I got offered a queue jump ticket by a friend of mine – he's an MP and he said, 'Do you want to come?' I didn't say yes – because I thought if anybody sees me I'll get it in the neck."
He added: "I suppose what Phil and Holly got wrong was they thought people wouldn't care.
"I guess that that's their crime. The actual queue jumping? They did nothing wrong. Absolutely nothing wrong. But foolish of them to not think that people would be annoyed."
An online petition calling for ITV to sack the duo has now passed 75,000 signatures. body check tags ::
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