This Morning was hosted by Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield on Wednesday. The presenting duo welcomed journalist Camilla Tominey onto the ITV programme to discuss some of the biggest news stories of the day. As the group began chatting about recent critical comments Meghan Markle made about the tabloid media, Camilla hit back at the Dutchess.
In a recent interview, Meghan spoke out against tabloid newspapers, insisting: “I would urge you not to read tabloids because I don’t think that’s healthy for anyone.
“Hopefully one day it’ll come with a warning label like cigarettes do, like, ‘This is toxic for your mental health’,” she told The New York Times DealBook Online Summit on Tuesday.
Speaking on This Morning, Camilla quickly hit back at Meghan’s remarks and came to the defence of tabloids.
The journalist questioned: “Is she including People Magazine in that when she got her friends to give a defence of how she was being treated in the royal family?
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“Or is she including The Sun in that, who very successfully every year campaigns for people in the military with the Millie Awards?
“Or is she including the Daily Mail in that, which very successfully campaigned to hold the killers of Stephen Lawrence to justice?
“Let’s not have this broad-brushed generalisations about aspects of the media, which in a great many instances has actually helped not only the general public…
