This Morning viewers slammed an interview with celebrity chef Gino D’Acampo as 'tone deaf' as he appeared via video link from his hot tub at his home in Sicily. Gino appeared reclining in the bubbling tub next to a swimming pool for a chat with hosts Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield on Monday's episode (September 5).
The Italian star made an appearance to chat about his ITV show Gino’s Italy: Like Mamma Used To Make, which sees him return to his native country on a personal food odyssey to celebrate the women who have fed Italy and shaped the country’s cuisine, starting in his place of birth where he learnt to cook in the kitchens of his Nonna Flora and Mamma Alba.
@PatelBropodcast said: "People in the UK: we are facing a cost of living crisis Gino: check out my pool totally tone deaf."
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@MJ_JJ061215 tweeted: "There's a cost of living crisis and Gino D'Campo is swanning around in his pool without a care in the world. Absolutely disgusting. #ThisMorning should be ashamed of themselves - flaunting wealth is very poor taste." And @Arnutt7 complained: "Cost of living is biting."
Other viewers complained over chat about Gino's 'willy' during the interview. Episode one on Sunday saw Gino kick off his culinary travels in his birthplace, Torre Del Greco at the base of Mount Vesuvius on the Gulf of Naples.
Gino, 46, was reunited with two of his mother’s sisters – his aunts Rita and Lina and his niece Martina. When Holly asked "those aunties must have lots of embarrassing stories about you?" he replied: "There are a lot of pictures when I was a boy, when I was very little, probably about one year old.
"Somehow, I don't know why, my mum and dad did that, 90-per-cent of my pictures when I was a little boy I had my willy out. Don't ask my why. I think my father was so proud to have a boy because we had a lot of female cousins and so he wanted to show off my willy all the time."
Phillip joked: "No change there." And Holly laughed: "That's a lovely story." But Gino wasn't to be put off. "Can you picture?" he asked them.
"Enough. I've already seen it," said Phillip. And when Gino pressed: "When have you ever?" Holly clarified: "Here, after the NTAs when you said you'd get naked if you won. It scarred us forever."
@SallyPrice4 complained: "Just disgusting Gino, stop talking about willies'....complaint imminent!!!!!" @Boppity_Boo34 tweeted: "Stop going on about your little willy Gino." And @SmokeyToes76 said with a sickly emoji: "The thought of seeing Gino’s willy."
But @onlysmols said: "Not going to lie, I feel a bit sick with jealousy watching Gino sat in a jacuzzi in that gorgeous garden." and @_Normski asked: "Can we have Gino in the pool in every episode?!"
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