Cat Deeley stoked the ire of ITV This Morning viewers on Monday after one of her quips was deemed in poor taste on social media

Cat Deeley has apologised for comments made live on This Morning.

The presenter began the week by causing a storm online, hours after Monday’s instalment of This Morning, when she was seen dancing in the ITV studio alongside co-star Ben Shephard before introducing singer Meghan Trainor as one of her guests for the day.

“I’m just having a seizure,” she playfully said, prompting one angry viewer to react on X, otherwise known as Twitter : “Wow @catdeeley @thismorning choose your words more wisely!! You really think seizures are funny!? What a stupid thing to say and then snigger at!”

The backlash grew during the hours that followed the breakfast staple, with comments flooding social media, leaving Cat to apologise this Tuesday, June 18.

Cat Deeley was the target of backlash in the hours that followed Monday’s instalment of This Morning ( Image: ITV)

“I just wanted to apologise to anyone who was offended yesterday when I made a light-hearted comment about my dancing style, it really wasn’t supposed to cause any upset to anybody”, Cat first said. “But I can see why that might have been the case so I do apologise, I’m very sorry. It didn’t come from that place at all.”

Cat continued with the rest of This Morning’s scheduled segments following her long-awaited apology but one viewer wasn’t satisfied as they penned: “Cat Deeley’s non-apology for her epilepsy ‘joke’ on #thismorning was not good enough. Still calling it a ‘light-hearted comment’. Having an epilepsy charity criticize you should be enough of a hint that you’ve said something more than just a ‘light-hearted comment’.”

Another added: “Tried to put up with this morning on itv since the new replacements. It’s a difficult watch however Cat making a joke about disabled people is the final straw.” However, someone else argued: “Hats off to @catdeeley for her apology on @thismorning. Now everyone needs to lay off. We all make mistakes. Keep smiling.”

Another agreed: “I thought the apology from @catdeeley on @thismorning regarding her seizure comment yesterday was truly genuine. I do hope now that it will stop the mob from constantly attacking her character. Jury by social media can go too far and we’ve seen that in the past.”

On Monday, This Morning viewers were just as bitter after Cat’s quip. “Absolutely disgusting behaviour. I cannot stand her”, one of them commented. Another weighed in when Ben was also scolded for awkwardly laughing with Cat instead of calling her out: “Not sure what Ben could have done to rectify what she did.”

One angry viewer had given an insight on the real-life struggle epileptic patients encounter: “Living with epilepsy is not funny it can be a life limiting condition and living with it is no joke, when I see people laughing about it especially on national TV, it upsets and angers me.”

“#Epilepsy is currently running my life, stopping me from doing anything that I enjoy. Side effects from meds are also restricting what I can do. I make jokes about my #epilepsy to try & lift myself out of this nightmare I’m currently in, but this was not funny,” another had added.

UK charity Epilepsy Society also spoke out on Monday afternoon: “Seizures are no laughing matter for people with #epilepsy @catdeeley Please do better and educated yourselves about this difficult and poorly understood condition.”