Richard Madeley booed after branding daughter Chloe ‘cheap’

Richard Madeley was booed by an ITV audience after branding his daughter Chloe ‘cheap’.

The Good Morning Britain presenter, 68, joined his daughter, 37, for an episode of Romesh Ranganathan’s Parents’ Evening, alongside Jonathan Ross and his daughter Honey, and Spice Girl Mel B with her daughter Phoenix.

At one point, the celebrities and their kids were challenged with their knowledge on boybands, with Chloe revealing she could name ten out of the 11 in question.

However, Richard had previously underestimated her, leaving it to Jonathan and Honey to take on the question.

After their team scored seven points, Romesh told the ITV presenter: ‘Richard, you will have not been aware of this but Chloe was absolutely chomping at the bit to play this. Chloe, do you think you would have gotten more?’

‘I think I would have got 10 of the 11 yeah,’ she replied, leaving Richard with his head in his hands over the mistake.

After she was put to the test over her seriously impressive knowledge of the likes of Take That and Westlife, Richard was called out on his ‘missed opportunity’.

‘How can I make it up to you?’ he asked Chloe, to which she replied: ‘McDonalds.’

‘That’s why I love her, she’s cheap,’ Richard said.

The audience were left stunned at his comment, while Mel B and Phoenix’s jaws dropped as they took in what he said, with boos heard in the studio.

‘That’s rich coming from the man who won’t even buy himself pants,’ Jonathan quipped to Richard, who had previously said that he doesn’t wear underpants.

‘In my early 30s, I suddenly found that boxers, budgie smugglers and all of that, they just chafe.

‘So I got rid of them, and I’ve never looked back!’ Richard confessed.

It wasn’t news to Chloe though, who admitted: ‘We’ve had many incidents with accidentally walking into the kitchen late at night and immediately walking right back out again.’

Dancing At Ice star Chloe, who shares daughter Bodhi with ex James Haskell, has previously spoken about the difficulties she faced growing up with Richard and Judy Finnigan as parents.

She once struggled with online abuse and being accused of nepotism thanks to her parents once being the king and queen of daytime TV, to the point she would be ‘up all night, vomiting or drinking.’

‘It felt like people hated me, just for being my parents’ daughter, and got to a point where I was so desperately unhappy I couldn’t function any more,’ she said.

Recalling her time on Dancing On Ice in 2011, when she was 24 and suffering from huge anxiety, while trolls targeted her on social media accusing her of only being on screens due to her parents, she said she stopped sleeping and used alcohol to self-medicate.

She told the Daily Mail: ‘I couldn’t sleep, I was up all night, either vomiting or drinking, which obviously made everything worse.’

‘My dad found me on the kitchen floor one morning, at my worst,’ she said, and urged her to seek help.

It led her to be diagnosed with generalised anxiety disorder and being ‘pulled back into reality’ with a mix of talking and cognitive behavioural therapy.

While she still gets abusive comments online, she is now able to look at it a different way: ‘I’m respected and succesful in my own field and don’t give a s*** what people say about me.’

‘If they don’t like the fact I’m my parents daughter, that’s their problem, not mine.’