GMB Ed Balls slammed for 'fat shaming' Charlotte Hawkins
On today's episode, GMB shared a throwback clip of Charlotte making her first This Morning cameo as a model decades prior.
"I think you've aged beautifully," he said, adding, "I would say you look younger now than then, back then you looked a bit more podgy."
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📰 Sir Keir Starmer summons an emergency Cabinet summit to agree his plan to recognise a Palestinian state - after getting the go-ahead… pic.twitter.com/eLzioZIbzR — Good Morning Britain (@GMB) July 29, 2025
Responding to this, the ITV co-star said: "Podgy? We'll have words after this."
Who are Ed Balls and Charlotte Hawkins from GMB?
Ed Balls and Charlotte Hawkins both present the popular ITV morning programme GMB.
The former was once a British politician and served as Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families from 2007 to 2010, and as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2011 to 2015.
He was the MP for Normanton but later served Morley and Outwood from 2005 until 2015.
In 2015, he lost his seat to the Conservative Party's Andrea Jenkyns by a margin of 0.9%.
The former MP has since been on a number of shows like BBC One's Celebrity Best Home Cook and Strictly Come Dancing.
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Charlotte Hawkins is a British television and radio presenter who started her career as a journalist when she joined ITN in 1999 as a newsreader.
She also joined LBC as a reporter before appearing on programmes like Strictly Come Dancing and Good Morning Britain.
Beyond these, she had made guest appearances on shows like Richard Osman's House of Games and James Martin's Saturday Morning.
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