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T_i_B

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Thu Jun 17, 2021, 05:18 PM Jun 2021

"Mike Hunt has got in touch": GB News terrorised by prank callers

https://www.nme.com/news/mike-hunt-has-got-in-touch-gb-news-terrorised-by-prank-callers-2972088

GB News, Andrew Neil’s new channel, has been pranked by callers using fake comedy names.

A number of presenters including former BBC news reader Simon McCoy and ex-Apprentice contestant Michelle Dewbury were caught out by people texting in posing as “Mike Hunt” and “Mike Oxlong”.

The prank eventually led to McCoy appealing to viewers to stop and urged them to “grow up”.

He added: “I’m just going to say something because if you’ve seen the papers, if you’ve seen Twitter, some people think it’s really funny to send in texts and messages on the basis that if we read them out we’ve been had. We’re a new company, we’re a new broadcaster, there are systems that we’re putting in place that would stop idiots like you getting through. They’re getting through at the minute but… please? We’ve got other things to worry about.”

The news channel was launched earlier this week with the aim of fighting "cancel culture".
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"Mike Hunt has got in touch": GB News terrorised by prank callers (Original Post) T_i_B Jun 2021 OP
Okay, I giggled. zuul Jun 2021 #1
Please tell that my buddy Barry McCuaghiner called in? Hugh_Lebowski Jun 2021 #2
"We now go live to our intrepid correspondants" T_i_B Jun 2021 #6
Today, we'll be interviewing a very special guest Hugh_Lebowski Jun 2021 #8
Up next.. DEbluedude Jun 2021 #9
Think I know that name ... wasn't he was a notable protege Hugh_Lebowski Jun 2021 #10
I could have met him once. DEbluedude Jun 2021 #11
They can't cancel juvenile humor. Harker Jun 2021 #3
Jack Meoff was also implicated Blue Owl Jun 2021 #4
We knew a guy named Harry Ball. LakeArenal Jun 2021 #5
Hugh Janus strikes again! Grokenstein Jun 2021 #7
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