Britain's most complained about TV shows have been revealed, and the top spot might surprise you. Good Morning Britain is officially the most complained about show, raking in 75,623 complaints to British TV and radio regulator Ofcom between 2020 and 2022.
The breakfast news show is currently hosted by Susanna Reid, Kate Garraway, Ben Shephard, Charlotte Hawkins, Ranvir Singh, Sean Fletcher and John Stapleton. The controversial former host Piers Morgan quit in 2021 following his refusal to take back his derogatory comments about Meghan Markle.
According to research by TECC, the talk show accounts for 36.63% of all complaints received over the two-year-period.
ITV dating show Love Island came in second place with 42,944 complaints, with one particular episode in 2022 receiving almost 3,000 complaints and making it the most complained about broadcast of the year. In third place is Britain's Got Talent, with over 29,000 complaints throughout its run. This Morning followed in fourth place with 9,811.
Meanwhile, Channel 5's plastic surgery documentary, Celebrities: What's Happened To Your Face?, came fifth after receiving 7,000 complaints when it was broadcast. And Oprah Winfrey's exclusive interview with The Duke and Duchess of Sussex is the sixth most complained about programme, with 6,449 people writing in to Ofcom.
Lorraine received 4,465 complaints, putting the show in seventh place and I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here! got 4,150. Jeremy Vine's Channel 5 show was the ninth most complained about with 2,858 people writing in, and Loose Women was tenth with 2,017. Coronation Street is the UK's most complained about soap.
Marcus Saxton, chairman of the IBVTA and CEO of TECC said: 'We investigated British soaps to find out which received the highest number of Ofcom complaints, between 2020 and 2022, and found that Coronation Street was the most complained about TV soap.
However, overall complaints about soaps only make up 1.42% of all Ofcom complaints in recent years, and the majority haven't received enough to even make the list, indicating that it's a much less polarising format than other TV shows.'
'We also looked into the number of Ofcom complaints made against British TV programmes, more generally,' he added, 'and found that Good Morning Britain was the most complained about show, with over 75,000 complaints made between 2021 and 2022. However, reality TV was the format which received the most complaints overall.'
In December, Love Island was officially responsible for three of the most complained about TV moments of the year.
Official figures released by Ofcom place the ITV2 show at the top of a ten strong list, with 2,630 of its complaints relating to its 17 July episode, which was at the top of the list.
New data reveals that 2,630 viewers complained about 'alleged misogynistic behaviour by some of the male contestants' during the show's Movie Night where islanders watch back clips of themselves from earlier on in the villa. Ofcom said at that complaints specific to the episode had been about 'alleged bullying among the contestants, and raised ongoing concerns about behaviour from the male contestants that they considered to be misogynistic'.
The second most complained about episode of Love Island was the snog, marry, pie challenge where Tasha Ghouri was targeted and pied by several of the boys – 1,523 people wrote in.
There were also 769 complaints about the 18 July episode of Aftersun, which saw host Laura Whitmore and panellists discuss what might have happened between Ekin-Su Culculoglu and George Tasker in the bedroom.
Over the show's eight weeks on air, 7,482 complaints were made related to 'alleged misogynistic and bullying behaviour' by some of the male contestants.