Rylan Clark's Immigration Comments On This Morning Spark Wave Of Ofcom Complaints

Rylan Clark on This Morning last weekTV watchdog Ofcom has announced it has received hundreds of complaints over controversial comments made by Rylan Clark on This Morning last week.While guest presenting the ITV daytime show towards the end of August, Rylan chaired a debate during which he wrongly claimed that asylum seekers entering the UK are given free phones and iPads and put up at luxury hotels.He said: “This country is built on immigration – legal immigration. You know, a lot of the nurses and the doctors that have saved my mum’s life have come over here from other countries, are living a great life, they’re paying into this tax system and they’re helping this country thrive.”The former X Factor contestant then continued: “I find it absolutely insane that all these people are risking their lives coming across the Channel like they are, and when they get here, it does seem – and I think this is why a lot of Labour voters as well are now sitting there going, ‘there’s something wrong here’ – it seems, ‘welcome, come on in’.”He went on to claim that the “narrative we’re being fed” is “here’s the hotel, here’s the phone, here’s the iPad, here’s the NHS in reception of your hotel, here’s three meals a day, here’s a games room in the hotel, have a lovely time, welcome”.“And then, there’s people that have lived here all their lives, that are struggling,” he added. “Our homeless, let’s not even discuss our homeless, there are people living on the streets, veterans, all of this.“Now, this isn’t me getting on my soapbox because, let me be honest, everyone’s going to have an opinion about this and you’re going to upset someone some which way, but I believe that something major needs to be done about this.“The money that it’s costing us, the amount of people that are in this country that we have no idea who they are, what they’ve done, what they’re capable of, and clearly, we see a lot of it in the press at the moment, some of what some are doing – not all – to people in this country… how can, if I turn up at Heathrow airport, if I turn up as a British citizen and I’ve left my passport in Spain, I’ve got to stand at that airport and won’t be let in… but if I arrive on a boat [from] Calais, I get taken to a four-star hotel?”This is where the country goes to the dogs. Rylan is allowed to say plainly untrue statements on a national news show with literally no pushback. Asylum seekers housed in hotels are NOT given phones or ipads. They are not living a life of luxury.pic.twitter.com/HwziGL5uS6— John Challenger (@JohnChallenge11) August 27, 2025As Rylan’s comments became more widely shared online, he was criticised by many from critics accusing him of parroting rhetoric popularised by Nigel arage and his Reform party, sharing mistruthsabout those seeking asylum in the UK and not being fully educated on the sensitive subject he was discussing.On Wednesday, Ofcom disclosed that it had received 576 complaints over Rylan’s remarks, which will be assessed before the media regulator decides to take the matter any further, as is standard procedure.Posting on X hours after his comments aired, Rylan wrote: “You can be pro immigration and against illegal routes. You can support trans people and have the utmost respect for women. You can be heterosexual and still support gay rights. The list continues.“Stop with this putting everyone in a box exercise and maybe have conversations instead of shouting on Twitter.”You can be pro immigration and against illegal routesYou can support trans people and have the utmost respect for women You can be heterosexual and still support gay rightsThe list continues. Stop with this putting everyone in a box exercise and maybe have conversations…— R Y L A N (@Rylan) August 27, 2025HuffPost UK contacted ITV for comment last week but did not receive a response.Rylan continued to present This Morning for the rest of last week, with no further mention of the controversy.READ MORE:Rylan Clark Responds To Backlash Over This Morning Immigration CommentsHere's What's In Reform's Mass Deportation Plan – And Why It Won't Work'That Idiot On X Factor, He's Doing Alright': Rylan Clark On His New Era

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