ITV Good Morning Britain viewers left furious over…

ITV Good Morning Britain viewers left furious over Adil and Ranvir's move while talking to Yvette Cooper

Good Morning Britain viewers were less than impressed when a serious interview with Yvette Cooper switched to seeing her being quizzed on her home life with one of the show's hosts, Ed Balls. The former MP had been at the helm of the show from Monday to Wednesday this weekend alongside Susanna Reid.

However, on Thursday (January 26), the reins of the ITV news programme had been handed over to Adil Ray and Ranvir Singh. The pair were joined via video link by Cooper, who revealed Labour's plans to tackle people smuggling gangs at UK borders. It comes as reports show that 500 migrants arrived in the UK by boat on Wednesday (January 25) alone - and numbers could be set to rise.

The shadow home secretary said: "We have to go after the criminal gangs that are behind this. Criminal gangs are organising those boats, and making huge profits from those boats, and our analysis shows that they made around £180 million from putting people's lives at risk last year and that’s more than a hundredfold increase in the space of just two or three years.

"There’s no part of the legitimate economy that has grown in that way." Setting out Labour's plans to tackle criminal gangs who traffic migrants into the UK, Yvette explained: "As Labour, we would set up a national crime agency unit, a specialist unit, to go after those gangs.

"To work with Europol, with other police forces to track the money, to track the supplies, basically to try and take out those gangs. The system is failing on all counts. There isn’t a safe legal route but there also are these criminal gangs operating and [they] just shouldn't be doing so because we have to stop these dangerous boats."

But before the interview came to an end, she was quizzed over a clip of her husband changing a bed live on the show earlier this week. Ed got to work on the programme after Stacey Solomon sparked a debate about how often you should change your bed sheets, with the Loose Women star opting for once a week.

During the discussion, Ed was questioned by Susanna on his home life, specifically when he was a single man. "When you were a single man how often did you change your dirty sheets?" she asked to which he replied: "I don’t think every week but not every month. When you’re young every couple of weeks."

"Now? Weekly," he added as Susanna asked: "Right and do you change them?" to which he quickly hit back: "I do change them,” before his co-host asked again whether he changes his bed sheets every week. Cooper was therefore asked if Ed was telling the truth to which she said: "I have to confess I do more sheet changing.

Ed changing bed sheets on GMB earlier this week (ITV)

“But to be fair to Ed he does all of the cooking, he does do a lot of the tidying up as well, cooking I really do none of it.” As the clip of him changing the single bed on the show aired, Cooper apologised, saying: "You’re showing the footage of him throwing things in all directions I’m sorry."

The conversation briefly continued but in the meantime, GMB viewers were complaining on social media. @WelshBoy_92 said: "Wtf... Why did they change the talk of Illegal Immigrants coming to the UK to Ed Balls changing a bed? That was a change of pace." @RobertJ59871002 fumed: "Is this really news worthy!? #GMB what a joke this is! Spent time talking about immigration which is a massive issue in the UK and then you go straight to this without skipping a heartbeat!? Ridiculous! @GMB."

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