Miriam Margolyes has divided viewers of The Last Leg after saying she wanted
Boris Johnson to die after he was hospitalised and admitted to intensive care with coronavirus.
The controversial
Actor made the comments about the prime minister during an appearance on Friday’s episode of The Last Leg Locked Down Under.When the Harry Potter star was asked how she thinks the government is handling the
Coronavirus pandemic, she said she had “difficulty not wanting Boris Johnson to die”.Miriam Margolyes has no filter - that's why her v.blunt feelings about Boris Johnson and #Covid19 are no surprise. pic.twitter.com/aE8vv0y0H4— Lorna Cooper🏴🇯🇲🇬🇾 (@Coops_tv) May 9, 2020“It’s a disgrace, it’s a scandal,” she said. “It’s a public scandal. I had difficulty not wanting Boris Johnson to die.
’I wanted him to die. Then I thought that will reflect badly on me and I don’t want to be the sort of person that wants people to die.
“So then I wanted him to get better, which he did do, he did get better. But he didn’t get better as a human being. And I really would prefer that.
“So we’re in the shit, basically, here.”
Her comments received a mixed response by viewers on
Twitter...Miriam Margolyes appears to be struggling with this lockdown. But that does not excuse what she said on live TV last night. Truly appalling #thelastleg— Sam Murray (@sammurraytory) May 9, 2020I like her but that comment was a step to far #MiriamMargolyespic.twitter.com/S1j2I2rZD7— Martin Marson (@Marson099) May 9, 2020Memo to Miriam Margolyes: If your sense of morality is not drastically superior to Myra Hindley's, you probably wanna buck your ideas up a bit. pic.twitter.com/RmFZKBcg2j— Alf Garnett (@FunnyAlfGarnett) May 9, 2020Here's the video of #MiriamMargolyes stating she wished that @BorisJohnson would die. What a VILE woman https://t.co/G2wKYxBpIN— David Vance (@DVATW) May 9, 2020However, many viewers saluted the star’s honesty...Me considering the fact people are getting their knickers in a twist about Miriam Margolyes but not getting equally upset at holding the government accountable for avoidable deaths, including those of NHS workers #MiriamMargolyespic.twitter.com/N0ZaPl54dP— Rachel Love-Howseman ♥️ (@rachlove31) May 9, 2020I love how Miriam Margolyes has absolutely no filter whatsoever 😂 #thelastleg— Emma (@EmzieLangan) May 8, 2020Miriam Margolyes is trending and I couldn't be happier she is without a doubt the woman I want to grow up to be.She's 100% amazing at all times. pic.twitter.com/KRxpRO9yga— Emma Flinders (@FlindersEmma) May 9, 2020Miriam Margolyes is a living legend FACT 🥰😊🥰 #TheLastLeg#zoomfacepic.twitter.com/zqvBEJjwAo— Keven law (@Kevenlaw) May 8, 2020The right: "I really like Katie Hopkins, she just says what she thinks and is being honest!"Miriam Margolyes says what she thinks and is honest.The right: "Not like that"— Richard Allen (@Richard_J_Allen) May 9, 2020Johnson is responsible for thousands upon thousand of actual deaths.Save your outrage for him — Miriam Margolyes is just voicing a thought that must have crossed many people's minds.pic.twitter.com/pSwtA5QUmI— JD Black #UTFC (@_JD_Black) May 8, 2020The 78-year-old star is known for
shooting from the hip and telling people exactly what she thinks, and things were no different when she was asked about the lockdown on This Morning last month.
Speaking to hosts Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield on the ITV daytime show, she said: “I actually don’t give a stuff about the
economy, I want people to survive. So I think Boris Johnson is completely right about that. He’s not right about anything else, but he is right about that.”On how she was coping with the situation herself, Miriam said: “Not very well actually, I don’t like it but I’m keeping all the rules and doing the right thing. It’s the only time I ever thought that I would agree with Mr. Johnson, but I do and we’ve all just got to stick it.
“I didn’t think that I was going to have to spend the rest of my life sitting in my kitchen. But I have got a garden… and that’s lovely. “I’ve been out in the garden a lot, but I won’t do housework. I won’t do exercises. I just really do
Netflix and read books and chat to my
Friends. And I call out to the neighbours across the road, so I am rather noisy.”READ MORE: 'Your Skin Will Wrinkle, Your C**t Will Get Dry': Miriam Margolyes On Finding Body-Acceptance At 78 Miriam Margolyes' Sweary Account Of Meeting The
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