Broadcasting regulator Ofcom has received over 400 complaints over This Morning host Eamonn Holmes' 5G coronavirus comment. The TV presenter, 60, seemed to back the conspiracy theory that 5G is somehow to blame for the current pandemic on yesterday's show.
He said on Monday's edition of the ITV daytime show that the media "did not know if it was true or not". Ruth Langsford's hubby made the remarks on during a segment with the programme's consumer editor Alice Beer, who said the 5G theory, which has led a number of phone masts to be set alight or vandalised, was "not true and it's incredibly stupid".
Eamonn told Alice: "I totally agree with everything you are saying but what I don't accept is mainstream media immediately slapping that down