BBC The One Show in chaos as David Walliams makes joke about Keir Starmer live on air

The One Show was interrupted connected Tuesday evening arsenic David Walliams made a cheeky gag astir Prime Minister Keir Starmer portion appearing connected the amusement alongside Little Britain co-star Matt Lucas

The One Show took an unexpected crook erstwhile impermanent David Walliams made a gag astir Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

David was connected the fashionable evening amusement with his Little Britain co-star Matt Lucas and erstwhile EastEnders histrion Lindsey Coulson.

As hosts Alex Jones and Clara Amfo chatted with the TV stars astir their existent projects, the taxable of schoolhouse came up arsenic Lindsey discussed her caller relation successful schoolhouse play Waterloo Road.

This prompted David to uncover that helium attended the aforesaid schoolhouse arsenic Keir erstwhile they were some overmuch younger. He quipped: "I was astatine schoolhouse with Keir Starmer, yeah. And helium gave maine a detention and it was Christmas clip and it was truly acold and helium turned disconnected the heating."

Host Alex seemed taken aback by the remark and didn't cognize what to accidental next. Laughing, David added: "I did spell to the aforesaid schoolhouse arsenic Keir Starmer, but actually, we didn't conscionable each other."

After a little pause, David mentioned different celebrated look and said: "And Fatboy Slim was determination too. Yeah, helium was yeah!

"He was doing the DJing and Keir was being the Prime Minister, I was acting the giddy goat!"

Trying to steer the speech back, Alex past turned to Lindsey and said: "We are going to speech astir EastEnders arsenic good due to the fact that it's 40 years of EastEnders," reports Wales Online.

However, viewers who noticed the awkwardness connected surface rapidly took to societal media tract X to stock their thoughts.

Viewers took to societal media with reactions aft David Walliams tossed a playful barb astatine Keir Starmer connected air. One instrumentality tweeted: "Loved David's excavation astatine Keir Starmer. He's intelligibly acold excessively outspoken for the BBC. He's astir apt adjacent to beryllium cancelled."

Another recovered amusement successful the miscommunication, posting: "Watching the presenters connected #TheOneShow wholly not getting @davidwalliams marque a gag astir going to schoolhouse with Kier Starmer and giving them a detention and turning the heating off. Don't cognize which was funnier."

A 3rd simply laughed it off, saying: "That was axenic chaos lol."

David's quip alluded to the Labour government's caller determination to slash wintertime substance payments for astir pensioners.

As temperatures dropped past year, Keir Starmer stood by his pugnacious stance, declaring that the Labour authorities needed to beryllium prepared to look unpopularity arsenic a effect of rectifying past mistakes near by the erstwhile administration.

The One Show airs weekdays astatine 7pm connected BBC One