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Kirsty McCormack

This Morning viewers have 'no sympathy' for woman who claims she was 'jobfished'

This Morning viewers were not feeling overly sympathetic on Tuesday as Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield interviewed a woman who had been 'jobfished'.

Gemma Brett was welcomed into the ITV studio alongside investigative journalist Catrin Nye to discuss the BBC documentary which is called Jobfished.

Gemma started working for fake design company named Madbird in February 2021 but saw red flags when she was invited to her first work meeting on Zoom.

Holly began the interview by saying: "It's extraordinary, the levels of what people will do to deceive others is quite incredible."

Gemma, 28, explained: "The first Zoom meeting raised quite a lot of questions for me and then I started digging a bit deeper and then it started to crumble once I did the research."

This Morning viewers were not feeling sympathetic for Gemma Brett who claims she was 'jobfished' (ITV)

Holly then mentioned the fact that Gemma was told she would be working on a "six-month commission based probation" before adding: "Which felt not quite right to you?"

"Yeah I mean it's not too unusual in the industry so it didn't seem too bad but yeah it was all a little bit strange," Gemma replied.

She also started Googling names of her so-called colleagues and found that stock images were being used and the company address was actually a block of flats.

Phillip Schofield looked baffled as he and Holly Willoughby interviewed Gemma (ITV)

Journalist Catrin, who made the BBC documentary, said she had never seen anything like it before and came across the story by chance via a WhatsApp group.

Viewers tuning in at home were a bit baffled though and didn't have much sympathy for Gemma and other people who 'worked' for Madbird.

"All those [red flag emoji] and she just sat on them I have no sympathy for idiots like this #ThisMorning," one harsh person wrote.

Journalist Catrin Nye who made the BBC documentary also appeared on Tuesday's This Morning (ITV)

Another person tweeted: "'Work for us for 6 months for free…' sure, nothing dodgy here #madbird #ThisMorning."

Someone else asked: "So confused, where did her work end up? #ThisMorning."

And a fourth person added: "Sorry to say that a lot of this story boils down to the naivety of the employees and them not doing proper checks up-front. Also, who the hell works for six months without pay #ThisMorning."

This Morning airs weekdays at 10am on ITV and ITV Hub.

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