Loose Women viewers switch off as they blast Ed Balls’ ITV return following his disappearance from Good Morning Britain amid explosive partisan row

Loose Women viewers criticized Ed Balls as he returned to ITV on Tuesday, following his notable absence from Good Morning Britain amid an explosive partisan row.

The 57-year-old MP turned broadcaster appeared to discuss his battle with stuttering, as his wife and the UK Home Secretary claim she attended Taylor Swift’s Wembley concert for free and helped the superstar singer find a VIP -get a police escort.

Speaking about his stutter, Ed, who was a Labor MP between 2005 and 2015 and last appeared on GMB on October 10, told the panel: ‘I read a teleprompter every morning, if you had told me ten years ago I read a teleprompter, I would never believe you’.

“It never goes away, you just learn to deal with it.”

But fans hit back, claiming Ed should have taken the opportunity to speak about his wife and the scandal.

Loose Women viewers criticized Ed Balls, 57, as he returned to ITV on Tuesday following his notable absence from Good Morning Britain amid an explosive partisan row

The MP turned broadcaster, 57, appeared to discuss his battle with stuttering after his latest GMB appearance on October 10 (pictured)

Ed’s wife and the UK Home Secretary face claims she attended Taylor Swift’s Wembley concert for free and helped the superstar singer receive a VIP police escort (pictured together 2016)

Writing: ‘@Loosewomen asks Ed Balls if he’s planning any more FREE TICKET of any kind of concert for his WIFE!!! And they deny it!!!’: ‘Too bad Ed Balls wasn’t there to defend his wife!’: ‘Balls is married to Labor MP Yvette Cooper, do you have any idea if the pensioners will get their winter fuel payment waived, Ed? ? No, I didn’t think so.”

‘Ed Balls and his stammer? Like watching paint dry. Switched to Impossible’: ‘Middle class Ed Balls is next, who’s interested in him ffs’: ‘Rich middle class Ed Balls got over his mild stutter years ago, any excuse to get him his monthly media attention if member of the itv1 family’.

The Home Secretary faced claims that she had undervalued her now infamous tickets to see Taylor Swift’s concert after The Mail on Sunday found that she and her family had had first class seats in the Royal Box at Wembley Stadium worth up to £1,000.

Cooper – who attended the concert with husband and two of their children after being involved in controversial conversations that led to the singer receiving a police escort – told parliamentary authorities that each ticket was worth £194.75.

That placed it below the minimum £300 required to declare gifts.

The tickets were provided by Swift’s record label Universal. Experts estimate that such tickets, which cannot be purchased on the open market, have an actual value of between £500 and £1,000.

Friends of Cooper said the tickets did not need to be declared because they were a gift for her husband, not her.

However, the Commons rules are ambiguous in that they state that gifts to a third party must be declared if the benefit ‘was given by reason of his or her membership of the House of Representatives or parliamentary or political activities’.

Speaking about his stutter, Ed, who was a Labor MP between 2005 and 2015, told the panel: ‘I read a teleprompter every morning . do you believe’.

But fans hit back, claiming Ed should have taken the opportunity to speak about his wife and the scandal.

Senior Tory MP Sir Alec Shelbrooke told the MoS: ‘If it is the case that Ms Cooper’s Taylor Swift ticket was worth £1,000, there is no doubt that this should have been included in the MPs’ register of financial interests , regardless of whether she got it from her husband or not.

‘In any case, anyone involved in public affairs would know that the Home Secretary is the wife of Ed Balls. If he were to get the coveted free Taylor Swift tickets, there was always a good chance that his wife would be one of the beneficiaries.”

Videos from the MoS show Cooper and Balls enjoying the concert from the Royal Box, the stadium’s best seats, from where Prince William and Prince George watched the FA Cup final.

In the footage, the couple can be seen dancing, singing and sitting on various stages all night long as they watch with two of their children.

In a photo shared by their son Joel Cooper on

A spokesperson for Mrs Cooper said: ‘Yvette attended the concert as a guest of her husband, Ed Balls, who had been given tickets by the CEO of Universal Music, whom he has known for many years.

The Home Secretary has faced claims that she had undervalued her now infamous tickets to Taylor Swift’s concert

‘We sought advice from Universal Music on the value of the tickets and from parliamentary authorities on whether it should be declared, and have followed all advice given.

“It has been declared in the ministerial register and will be published in the normal way.”

A spokesman for Cooper said: ‘Yvette attended the concert as a guest of her husband, Ed Balls, who had been given tickets by the CEO of Universal Music, whom he has known for years.

‘We sought advice from Universal Music on the value of the tickets and from parliamentary authorities on whether it should be declared, and have followed all advice given.

“It has been declared in the ministerial register and will be published in the normal way.”