Holly Willoughby Loses Her Temper With Mother Of 12 Over Her £40,000 In Benefits
During in an interview on British breakfast show This Morning, Holly Willoughby spoke for the rest of the tax paying nation when she lost her cool with the woman she was interviewing.
That woman was mum-of-12 Cheryl Prudham and prolific benefit beneficiary, who is currently looking for a sperm donor for her 13th child - which will allegedly entitle her to further money from the government on top of her current £40,000 a year.
When asked by Holly if she really thought that was fair, Cheryl stoutly pointed out that she doesn’t make the decisions, and she isn’t going to turn down free money.
When she complains that none of the fathers pay, Willoughby is quick to jibe back saying, “well they may be [paying] in a round-about way if they’re paying tax. We’re all paying.”
But no, that was not the end of the sass. When talking about the thirteenth child, silver fox Phillip Schofield quips, “is that baby another child, or another income source?”
Yikes, you go Phillip.
When pushed further by the breakfast duo, the benefits mum did admit she could understand people’s frustration:
“I can see why people who go work 40-50 hours a week do get annoyed, but I don’t make the rules up.”
And that’s when Holly loses her cool, asking how the woman sleeps at night:
“I would really struggle to sleep at night if I thought I was taking all this money and then somebody at the end of the road who had disability benefits that was being cut.
Or they might have a young carer, who is a child, who is 14, that hasn’t got the money and the family, who can’t go on and do education and missing out of their life; I know, and you’re not silly, you know that is the reality, so how can you sleep at night?
You know how important your kids are to you, that person with a young carer their child is equally as important to them, but they don’t have all that money, where is it going? Into your pocket.”
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And of course, viewers weren’t happy:
13 children is ridiculously excessive. I want a Range Rover I can't afford, wouldn't expect the tax payer to cough up for it! #payformybaby
— Sian Robinson (@siam_sian) June 7, 2016
I work 50-65 hours per week to earn £36k anum and she wants us to pay her 1 more baby #payformybaby I'd rather have more immigrants to work
— SayingOMG (@SayingOMG) June 7, 2016
#PayForMyBaby is infuriating. I work 40 hours a week to earn less than half of what she gets. I may not have children, but I still struggle.
— Imogen (@penchantandprej) June 7, 2016
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