Britain's This Morning presenter, Alison Hammond, broke down in tears as she spoke about how the #BlackLivesMatter movement and the death of George Floyd had affected her.
She appeared after co-hosts Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield led a “blackout” in protest against the death of Mr Floyd.
At 11am the ITV daytime show went dark, showing a black screen with the words Black Lives Matter in white lettering. Speaking over the phone, Hammond, whose parents are from Jamaica, said she was “disgusted to my core” by the image of Mr Floyd before his death.
She said: “I am a mother to black boys so when I saw that image of George Floyd I saw my brother, I saw my father, I saw my son. “I saw everybody’s son, and I was disgusted to my core. “It