Inbetweeners actor accuses This Morning of exploiting mental illness...
 

Inbetweeners star James Buckley has accused This Morning of exploiting celebrities with mental health issues.

Speaking to the Daily Star, the actor revealed he turned down the opportunity to go on the ITV morning show and talk about his struggles with anxiety, because he thinks they have ‘baited’ people with mental health problems to make entertainment.

“I was asked to go on This Morning and daytime TV shows and chat shows to talk about it,” he said.

“I’m like, ‘I did talk about it. You didn’t report it properly and it made me even more anxious and depressed’.”

He continued: “The reason why I wasn’t comfortable talking about my anxiety on certain shows is that I thought the whole thing was sort of hypocritical.

“I think they’ve baited people that have probably had mental health problems and used that to make entertainment.”

Buckley admitted to usually enjoying the morning show, but was put going on it by Kerry Katona’s ‘gurning’ appearance.

“Whatever you’ve got to say about Kerry Katona, for example, she’s obviously got some demons, and they roll that clip out at every opportunity,” he said.

“I didn’t even see that live but I’ve seen it repeated on TV numerous times and that’s not fair.

“I don’t want to see anyone taken advantage of like that. How she got to the point where they were like, ‘Yeah you can go on. You’re fine’. It’s really, really unfair and it does not help the problem at all. To be used like that would be horrific and would make you go even more insane.”

Speaking on his Complete Load of Podcast, Buckley said he hopes things will change.

“I think things are changing and sometime in the near future there would be someone responsible there going, ‘For your own health we can’t have you on live television right now,” he said.

“We want to make you feel better because I’m another human being and I don’t want to see someone else suffer in this way’.

“Instead of just doing the complete opposite and going, ‘Right, this will be some ratings’.”

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I agree with him, and the interview with Kerry when she was clearly not fit is a good example.

Mocking mental illness or using it to bait, or for viewers or likes is never acceptable in any circumstance

Also Kerry was on medication for her bipolar which had side effects & caused her to slur her speech .

mmm Kerry was the first person who sprang to mind for me too when I read the title. Can't disagree with him really

Tbf he’s not wrong, they did have a ceremony for a woman marrying her dog on there a few weeks ago

Well done that man for refusing to go on.

I stopped watching it ages ago ,it's a joke ! :facepalm: .
Soo many ridiculous stories ie sleeping with Aliens ,all sorts of nonsense.

I used to watch it now and again when Fern Britton hosted with Phil, I would never sit down to watch it now, I saw the Kerry Katona inteview online...Phil is just more of an upmarket version of Jeremy Kyle with his smarm and look at me I'm so brilliant at everything face

it's trash tv and the equivalent of click bait articles

Like I said Kerry Katona got a rough deal probably because they didn't understand she was on medication to control her bipolar , which slurred her words (not sure if she mixed alcohol with it ) as we know booze & pills don't go well together . But either way lack of knowledge on their part .

But they tried to imply she was off her head drunk or on drugs . But it was very awkward to watch , I didn't watch it live but I saw it on YouTube . And Fern & Phil definitely were a bit much & it could of been handled better especially when it was obvious Kerry was upset afterwards .