The Good Morning Britain co-host says a job on the ITV daytime show is certainly challenging
He certainly divides viewers with his opinion as he co-presents ITV’s Good Morning Britain and Richard Madeley himself has now revealed that the job is “like going to battle”.
Richard – who this week sparked worry among viewers after his unexpected absence from the show due to sickness – is now looking forward to a planned break but is due back on air mid-September.
Asked how he prepares for early starts and a busy live TV schedule after a break, he replied: “It’s almost like going into battle, you have to check all your equipment. I’m due back in the middle of September and I can guarantee you the weekend before I come back, I will be checking I have four alarms set because I’m terrified of sleeping through an alarm.
“I’ll be resetting all of my alarm clocks, which are basically kind of brick mobile phones and I’ll be sorting out all my little toiletries in the morning, because I have a strict routine in the morning so I don’t waste any time, which means I can sleep for as long as possible.”
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He continued: “I’ll be lining up my toothbrush, my toothpaste, my deodorant, my hairbrush, my wash and go shampoo, my aftershave and my eyedrops, and they’ll all be lined up very neatly on the kitchen top so I just have to kind of tumble out of bed and tumble downstairs and that will all be there waiting for me. I’ll check my clothes, polish my shoes, and pick the outfits I’m going to wear for the first week. I’ll be in absolutely ready to go mode.”
And on his return he’d love to interview two very famous women – Taylor Swift and Kamala Harris. He said of Taylor: “She doesn’t really give interviews, she just issues statements and writes songs but there are so many questions that one would like to ask her given her status now and what’s happened to her over the last two or three years.
“She’s an absolute phenomenon which, absolutely in terms of the impact, is equal to the Beatles. So if this was like 40 years ago, you would say ‘I’d like to interview the Beatles’ but now you’d want to get Taylor Swift because she is just a cultural phenomenon.”
As for Kamala, he predicts she will win the US Presidential Election. He added: “She’s going to be the first woman President of the United States, and the first black woman President of the United States. I think that her emergence as a really credible contender against Trump is phenomenal because until Biden stood down, she was widely derided really and she completely confounded everyone’s expectations so I would love to interview Kamala Harris.”
It comes as Susanna Reid prepares to return to GMB after a long summer break, when she admits she spent her time watching the show she works on. She said: “I love doing my job – the news agenda has been so busy and I have been avidly watching GMB while I have been off.”
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