Vanessa Feltz makes ‘concerning’ gluten-free remarks during This Morning phone-in as charity demands apology

Vanessa Feltz makes 'irresponsible' gluten-free remarks on This MorningThis Morning, ITV

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00:00 Alison's mother-in-law has got them coming for Christmas,

00:02 and because one person has to be gluten-free,

00:05 she's insisting that they're all gluten-free,

00:07 including Alison's 15-year-old, who's a bit of a fussy eater.

00:11 And when Alison said, "Can we bring our own food then?

00:13 "You know, just can he bring food in a snack box?"

00:16 She said no.

00:17 So she's treating celiac disease

00:19 as if it's a kind of fatal, potentially fatal peanut allergy

00:23 and that they can't have anything with gluten in the house,

00:26 which is completely unreasonable.

00:28 That is not reasonable, Alison, at all.

00:30 The thing is, though, if you say to her,

00:32 "Look, you know, he can have gluten-free.

00:35 "We don't have to. It's not catching."

00:38 What will she say? How will she respond?