From the Daily Mail
Critics round on MP David Lammy as Comic Relief suffers £8MILLION drop in Red Nose Day donations amid fears public was put off by his bitter 'white saviour' row with Stacey Dooley over Strictly star's trip to Africa
Comic Relief raised a total of £63million - compared to £71.3million in 2018
I don't think so. I think Lammy's an arse and I think most people recognised that in this case.
Here's the real problem
This year's Comic Relief's Red Nose Day show was watched by 600,000 fewer people than in 2017.
Some 5.6 million people tuned in to watch the star-studded telethon on BBC One last night, but last time round the biennial fund-raiser was watched by 6.2 million viewers.
6.2 million down to 5.6 million is a drop of around 10.7%. 71.3 down to 63 is a drop of around 13%. Not an exact correlation, but probably close enough. People are finding something entertaining to watch on a Friday night on Netflix rather than a bunch of old has-beens doing the equivalent of a company Xmas show.
