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ITV This Morning fans spot problem as Josie promotes competition

This Morning fans spotted a problem as Josie Gibson came live from Cyprus during Tuesday's programme.

Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield were in the studio, chatting live on the show's iconic sofa. The pair were joined by young climate activist Greta Thunberg, who said climate protesters are just "trying out what works" to make us sit up and take notice of the climate crisis facing us.

Phillip asked her: "You’ve galvanised a generation. Has it made any difference?", to which Greta replied: "Depends on how you see it. It’s like no-one is acting as if we are in a crisis."

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The 19-year-old continued: "But on the other hand, we have had millions of people all over the world walking out, flooding the streets, demanding action - so I guess it depends how you see it. So of course there has been a difference, but not nearly enough.”

On Prime Minister Rishi Sunak not attending COP27, she said, “All individual cases have different reasons why they make those decisions so we shouldn’t be focusing blindly on one example, but overall we can see that the people in power do not really prioritise the climate crisis.

“They have proven time and time again their priorities are somewhere else entirely. They would rather stay in power and serve the forces of greed than take the responsibility.”

After the segment drew to a close, viewers were then shown Josie Gibson, coming live from Paphos. Josie was on hand to tell those watching at home how they could be in with a chance of winning £500,000 to start a "new life" in Cyprus.

Greta Thunberg on This Morning (ITV)

But some fans of the show took issue with the jump from a climate discussion to Josie having flown thousands of miles to promote a competition. Taking to Twitter, Tina said: "Why did they have to fly Josie to Cyprus just for a competition? After talking about climate stuff right before!"

@mostlystupid said: "Greta on talking about the climate change crisis, and then right after #ThisMorning have flown Josie to Cyprus for a five minute competition segment". Charlotte said: "Greta on climate change and then Josie jetting to Cyprus, couldn't make it up".

This Morning has been approached for comment.

This Morning airs weekdays from 10am on ITV and the ITV Hub

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