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Have I Got News For You: David Tennant jokes that Eamonn Holmes lives in a ‘tin foil bungalow’

Holmes came under fire for giving validity to a conspiracy theory linking 5G to coronavirus

Isobel Lewis
Friday 08 May 2020 09:56 EDT
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David Tennant mocks Eamonn Holmes for 5G conspiracy theory comments

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David Tennant used his time as a presenter on Have I Got News For You to poke fun at Eamonn Holmes for sharing an unsubstantiated coronavirus conspiracy theory.

The weekly satirical panel show has kept filming in lockdown, with Tennant joining team captains Ian Hislop and Paul Merton and guests Ayesha Hazarika and Chris McCausland on Thursday.

During one segment, the team discussed the NHS’s coronavirus contact tracing app that is being trialled on the Isle of Wight.

Addressing fears that the government was using the app to harvest personal data, the former Doctor Who actor joked: “‘Doesn’t bother me,’ said Eamonn Holmes, from the safety of his recently constructed tinfoil bungalow.’”

The TV presenter came under fire last month for giving validity to a baseless conspiracy theory that the coronavirus was linked to the rollout of 5G technology.

Holmes was presenting a discussion on Covid-19 fake news while presenting This Morning, when he said that the media had been too quick to dismiss the theory as false “when they don’t know it’s not true”.

“It’s very easy to say it’s not true because it suits the state narrative,” he said, adding: “That’s all I would say, as someone with an enquiring mind.”

The theory has been disproved countless times by scientists, with one microbiology professor recently describing it as ”both a physical and biological impossibility”.

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