Good Morning Britain fans were left sickened as Richard Madeley tucked into ‘revolting’ snacks in the middle of Thursday’s episode of the ITV show.

Correspondent Nick Dixon appeared on the programme to report a segment on how campaigners have said that crickets and ants should be part of a balanced diet because of their high protein content.

So Richard, 68, decided to do a taste test himself live in the studio.

He said: ‘This is roasted cricket, you say this is like pre dinner snacks? Like pretzels?

‘Me thinking on this, if we didn’t eat prawns for example, as a dish, and suddenly said, “Try eating prawns”, must people would go “Ew! Why would you want to eat that?”

The journalist then put the bugs in his mouth and chomped away.

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Good Morning Britain fans sickened as Richard Madeley tucks into ‘revolting’ snacks in middle of show – but would you eat them?

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Correspondent Nick Dixon appeared on the programme to report a segment on how campaigners have said that crickets and ants should be part of a balanced diet because of their high protein content

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Richard, 68, decided to do a taste test himself live in the studio and said: ‘I’d say it tastes a bit like a very mildly flavoured nut. ‘Nothing revolting about it. No back taste’

Richard confessed: ‘The flavour’s quite light. They’re sort of hollow.

‘I’d say it tastes a bit like a very mildly-flavoured nut.

‘Nothing revolting about it. No bad taste.

‘Nothing makes me want to heave. I’d like a bit of salt on that.’

Ranvir, 39, confessed that she wasn’t going to try it because she might have a shell fish allergy.

She confessed: ‘I’ve never eaten shell fish in my life so I don’t know.’

‘These are implicated,’ Richard said.

‘That’s a warning actually.

‘If you have a shell fish allergy, you shouldn’t eat this stuff.

‘Organically there are similarities.’

He then moved on to trying the minced cricket, which was served in a chili sauce with rice, coriander and onion.

‘That’s delicious!’ Richard said after forking up the dish.

‘I’m not saying this for the sake of the programme or television.

‘That is delicious! If I was served that and I didn’t know there was cricket in it, I’d think it was a slightly milder tasting curry.

‘It’s fine! It’s all up here, it’s all up here and it tastes and feels fine.’

It comes after GMB fans all had the same complaint as ‘telepathic’ twins, who spoke in unison, left Susanna Reid and Richard Madeley baffled on Wednesday’s instalment of the ITV show.

Paula and Bridgette Powers, 47, from Queensland, went viral after appearing on Australian channel Seven News to share their witness account of an alleged car jacking.

Susanna said: ‘This interview with you went viral because people watching cant believe it when they see the way you speak together.

‘Just explain who are new to the experience of meeting you, your extraordinary connection, which means you speak in unison. ‘

Paul and Bridgette replied: ‘Yeah we know that we annoy a lot of people out there.

‘But we’ve told people if they don’t like listening to us, just switch off the TV because we have tried to talk separately and it’s very hard for us.’