Catch the Cringe: Ed Balls' Live Blunder on Good Morning Britain!

ED Balls appeared to “malfunction” on today’s Good Morning Britain.

Former politician , 58, was hosting today’s show alongside , 55, when he suddenly froze.

Ed Balls appeared to ‘malfunction’ on today’s GMBCredit: ITV The former poltician froze live on airCredit: ITV Susanna stepped in to help Ed out after he froze on airCredit: ITV Susanna then cut to an advert breakCredit: ITV

The host appeared to completely shut down when it was his turn to read out the time.

It appeared that Ed’s autocue, which he was reading from, had stopped working.

Sensing his panic, his co-host Susanna quickly swooped in.

She read out the time and then immediately cut to a break.

Ex-Labour politician Ed has been a popular presenter on after joining the show almost three years ago.

Since then he has been working as a permanent rotating presenter alongside Susanna on the ITV breakfast show.

Before that Ed served as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2011 to 2015 under Ed Milliband as Leader of the Opposition.

He lost his seat to the ‘s Andrea Jenkyns in the 2015 election and went on to star on .

Ed has been married to the UK’s Foreign Secretary, , who serves in Sir ‘s government, since 1998.

He came under fire last year after .

‘s chief executive defended the interview, but said it would not happen again after more than 16,000 complaints were made to .

Meanwhile, Ed’s moment on today’s Good Morning Britain comes just days after .

It came when her shirt suddenly burst open whilst she was hosting last Friday’s show.

The TV host was just getting ready to read the autocue after the break when the cheeky moment happened.

It all happened when was about to introduce entertainment host .

However, just as she spoke she said: “Oh my button has popped undone!”

To which co-host cheekily said: “Oh hello!”

This caused to quickly try to do it back up again before she was exposed to the nation.

Ed joined Good Morning Britain in 2023Credit: Rex