Richard Madeley apologises to Jennie McAlpine on GMB Richard Madeley's absence from Good Morning Britain's line-up on Tuesday sparked a flurry of last-minute changes, with Sean Fletcher leaping in to co-host with Kate Garraway. As the show opened, Garraway promptly addressed the situation: "Good morning! Now if you were expecting to see Richard Madeley here, I think Richard Madeley was expecting to be here as well!" "He's feeling a bit poorly this morning, so we've got lovely Sean, which is fantastic." Garraway probed into how late Sean discovered he'd be stepping into Madeley's shoes, eliciting an admission from Fletcher that it was a sudden call to action.
He confessed: "So we wish Richard all the best, I get up in the morning and I log into the running order at home. I see my initial by all the stories that you would already have. Then I saw my initial on every other story," reports the Mirror .
Richard was unable to present Tuesday's instalment of Good Morning Britain (Image: ITV) READ MORE BBC The Answer Run viewers brand Jason Manford’s quiz show ‘nonsense' [LATEST] All Creatures Great and Small shares first-look at Tristan Farnon's return [DRAMA] "I thought there's a mistake, there's a typo!" Realization dawned on Sean after re-examining the schedule and noticing the slew of missed calls that it was his time to take the helm beside Kate. Sean remarked, with an air of humor: "Suddenly I realised, I had seven missed calls and I realised that something was up." He exp.