Nearly 2,000 complaints filed to Ofcom over just ONE REMARK – Guest Karen Millen on Vanessa Feltz’s Channel 5 talkshow still NOT FORGIVEN despite APOLOGY!
Vanessa Feltz‘s show has been slapped with an eye=watering amount of Ofcom complaints after a guest branded breastfeeding a three-year-old child as ‘weird and selfish’ during an ‘uneducated’ rant.
The TV star launched her new self-titled daily show earlier this year on Channel 5 following her departure from This Morning after 33 years.
However, an episode that aired on June 10 sparked a wave of complaints from viewers.
Vanessa interviewed Karen Millen, a fashion designer, during the instalment and discussed breastfeeding.
According to the Mirror, Vanessa asked what Karen thought about breastfeeding a three-year-old child.
Karen replied: ‘There’s no benefit, is there, for a child to be breastfed beyond six months really. I think it’s quite a selfish thing on the mother’s part.’
+4
View gallery
Vanessa Feltz’s (pictured) show has been slapped with a whopping amount of Ofcom complaints after a guest branded breastfeeding a three-year-old child as ‘weird and selfish’ during an ‘uneducated’ rant
+4
View gallery
Vanessa interviewed Karen Millen (pictured), a fashion designer, during the instalment on June 10 and discussed breastfeeding
She then went on the elaborate on her views and added: ‘I just think that’s not good emotionally for that child. I mean, what does that child do later in life?
‘The attachment – like you say it becomes an addiction and an addiction for that child too because they only know the boob. It’s just not normal, is it? I’m sorry, I find it very weird.’
The instalment attracted 1,856 complaints to Ofcom and some watchers took to social media to share their views.
One posted on X: ‘Karen Millen is an uneducated t**t with an unwanted opinion. It’s scientific fact how beneficial breastfeeding is for babies beyond even the age of one.
‘It’s a mother’s prerogative on how she decides to feed her baby and for how long.’
Karen apologised for her comments through a statement given to Vanessa and said: ‘I know I’ve upset a lot of your viewers and that was not my intention.
+4
View gallery
Vanessa asked what Karen thought about breastfeeding a three-year-old child
+4
View gallery
Karen said: ‘The attachment – like you say it becomes an addiction and an addiction for that child too because they only know the boob. It’s just not normal, is it? I’m sorry, I find it very weird.’
The instalment attracted 1,856 complaints to Ofcom and some watchers took to social media to share their views
‘The question was aimed at a three-year-old being breastfed and my thoughts on that and my answers reflected that, not the subject of breastfeeding.
‘I have three children and I breastfed all three of them up to six or seven months… I think my issue was more on the fact as a baby breast milk is the best and beyond being a baby, growing into toddler, I just found it more difficult to comes to term with how it would benefit a three year old..
‘And as a woman to women, I do respect your choices and I do want to support you…’
Ofcom also received for June 13’s episode after some viewers felt the apology was ‘weak’.
MailOnline has approached Channel 5 and Karen Millen for comment.
News
My Parents Humiliated Me at My Father’s Retirement Dinner Then My Husband Revealed Who He Really Was
Chapter 1: The Nobody My name is Diana Parker. I was thirty-two years old when my mother stood in front of 150 people at my father’s retirement party, leaned into a microphone, and made my marriage the punchline of the…
MY MOTHER TOLD ME NOT TO BRING MY SON TO EASTER AGAIN—THEN MY 13-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER STOOD UP AND SAID WHAT NONE OF THE ADULTS WOULD
Chapter 1: Don’t Bring Him It happened at a rented folding table covered in deviled egg crumbs, pastel napkins, plastic forks, and the shiny foil wrappers from Easter chocolate. The April wind moved through the dogwood trees behind my aunt’s…
MY FAMILY USED ME AS AN ATM, Until They Sold My Anniversary Gift and Learned I Was Done Paying
Chapter 1: The Good Daughter The smell of peppermint rinse and sterile latex was the permanent weather of my life. As a dentist, I spent my days working inside the smallest rooms of other people’s fear. I knew the exact…
MY HUSBAND GAVE ME AN “ALLOWANCE,” HIS MOTHER AUDITED MY GROCERY RECEIPTS—THEN THEY DROVE TO MOCK MY “TRAILER PARK” HOUSEWARMING
Chapter 1: The $3 Receipt Friday night in the Miller house always felt like a trial. Not dinner. Not family time. A trial. The kitchen table, a scuffed pine monster Linda insisted was “perfectly good,” was covered in crumpled receipts,…
MY NEWBORN WAS TURNING BLUE—MY HUSBAND LEFT FOR HAWAII AND SAID I WAS “JUST DRAMATIC”
Chapter 1: Blue Lips “Stop being so dramatic, Elena. He’s just coughing.” My mother-in-law said it like I had interrupted her breakfast, not like my three-day-old son was turning blue in my arms. Beatrice Vance stood in the middle of…
MY BILLIONAIRE FATHER DISOWNED ME AT MY OWN WEDDING—HE HAD NO IDEA THE “TRASH” HE MOCKED WAS ABOUT TO BECOME HIS BIGGEST REGRE
Chapter 1: Disowned Have you ever wondered what it feels like to have a billionaire father? Trust me, it is not the fairy tale people imagine. My name is Fiona Ashford. I was twenty-eight years old when my father stood…
End of content
No more pages to load
