Good Morning Britain has been pulled off air 20 minutes early after the staff were asked to evacuate the studio.
During the episode airing on Monday (9 March), presenter Susanna Reid told viewers that she could hear an alarm sounding in her ear, before asking producers whether those on-camera needed to do anything.
The show then went to an ad break, but instead of returning to Reid and co-host Ed Balls in the GMB studio, the channel began airing This Morning 20 minutes early.
Cutting toThis Morning presenters Cat Deeley and Ben Shephard – who seemed to be unaware that they were on air – Deeley could be heard asking producers: “They’re not coming back or they are coming back?” Shephard then asked: “What are we doing?” as a logo for This Morning quickly appeared on screen.
The opening credits of the ITV show then began to roll, with Deeley and Shephard explaining afterwards that GMB had been cut short as the building had been evacuated. GMB is filmed at ITN’s Gray’s Inn Road building, with the show having moved there at the start of the year.
While the two shows used to share a building in White City, however This Morning is now filmed at a studio in Covent Garden.
More to come.
