Buckingham Palace Blunder Leaves GMB Star Humiliated as They Issue Desperate Apology
The star faced a playful accusation from fellow Good Morning Britain presenter Charlotte
The GMB star faced a playful accusation from a colleague (Image: PA)
A red-faced Good Morning Britain star has revealed she was forced to apologise for a fashion faux pas after bumping into her colleague at Buckingham Palace. Laura Tobin, who presents the weather on the ITV show, faced a playful accusation from fellow presenter Charlotte Hawkins, who turned up at the same Garden Party – much to Laura’s surprise.
Laura “took” an item from Charlotte’s GMB wardrobe, but hadn’t “technically” asked to do so and then wore it to the royal event. She told The Mail’s Richard Eden: “I didn’t know she was going to be at the same garden party. She turned up and went, ‘That’s my dress!’
“I said, ‘I’m so sorry’. I took it from her wardrobe at Good Morning Britain, but hadn’t asked to technically borrow it.”
Laura “took” an item from Charlotte’s GMB wardrobe (Image: Getty)
Laura has reportedly done this before, too: she once admitted she borrowed a fascinator from fellow GMB star Susanna Reid for another royal occasion, this time Royal Ascot.
Garden Parties represent a way for the Royals to interact with members of the public from “all walks of life”, as the official website explains. Every year, about 30,000 guests are invited to Buckingham Palace or the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Scotland.
It comes after Laura hit back at criticism of the show’s weather reporting. In June, as the country faced weather warnings for extreme heat, she joined Ranvir Singh and Ed Balls in the studio.
At the time, the Met Office warned that “population-wide adverse health effects are likely to be experienced, not limited to those most vulnerable to extreme heat, leading to potential serious illness or danger to life”.
It also noted that “substantial changes in working practices and daily routines will be required”.
Laura has reportedly done this before, too (Image: Daily Mirror)
Much of the show focused on the weather, but it seemingly didn’t go down well with some viewers. One person wrote: “I bet other countries are laughing at this – those where this heat is quite normal.”
Another stated: “#GMB getting themselves into a right state over the weather. Utterly pathetic. It’s gonna be back down to 20° next week. We’ve become, as a country, an absolute shambles.”
Laura, however, hit back, saying: “I understand that a lot of people say, ‘you’re just being a party pooper, this is just hot weather,’ but we are talking about records that we have never reached.”
She reiterated that they were temperatures the country has “never, ever experienced before”. Laura also pointed out that it would be “hard to imagine” what the impact would be due to the unprecedented nature of the heat.
Speaking previously about the heat, Laura said: “I think the thing is, first off, we have our Met Office rare red extreme heat warning. This is only the second time this has been issued.”
She continued: “They’re so rare because we know when we issue them, we mean people will lose their lives, it will cause fatalities and the Met Office issue it with a heavy heart knowing that will be the case, and we say it with a heavy heart.”
