ITV Good Morning Britain viewers beg presenter to 'stop' after 'painful' live GCSE segment

Good Morning Britain has come under fire following its live coverage of GCSE results day. Students all across the UK will receive their GCSE results today (August 25) as the first batch of pupils to sit their exams since 2019 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Adil Ray and Kate Garraway were back at the helm of the ITV breakfast show today, with Adil taking over from Robert Rinder. The TV personality best known as Judge Rinder has made several appearances on the news programme over the last two weeks alongside different co-hosts Charlotte Hawkins, Ranvir Singh and Kate Garraway.

In Thursday's programme GMB hosted a live segment where school pupil's opened their GCSE results live on air. The class of 2022 are now able to pick their results up in person for the first time in two years after the pandemic.

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The ITV show cut live to a school in Leicester where correspondent Nitya Rajan was met with students who were anxiously awaiting their fate.

The first boy to open his results live on air revealed he was 'hoping for some grades just to get him through to his next step'. He soon announced that he had achieved lots of 9s and 8s, which are equivalent to As and A*s in the new grading system.

The next student, Ismat, struggled to read them as she paused before revealed she had been awarded 8s, 6s and 7s.

Another pupil revealed that she was hoping for 'just a pass' as she opened the envelope to find she had achieved 8s, 6s and 5s.

But viewers were left taken aback by the segment, as they begged the correspondent to presenter to 'stop' after calling the live reveals 'painful'.

@MckinlayAlly tweeted: "#GMB please stop this