I said to the daughter - if this hadn't been pre-recorded, I would be one of the 'thousands who complained' on the phone to the Beeb to 'reinstate Ian' immediately. I was fuming .. and I think one of the reasons so many of us were fuming was the way it was filmed and edited and the total lack of reaction or acknowledgement as to what had happened from Mary, Paul, Mel and Sue? It was just weird how it wasn't even referred to?!
All the blame was laid squarely at Ian's door - he shouldn't have lost his rag, he shouldn't have chucked it in the bin, he shouldn't have stormed off. Well no maybe he shouldn't .. .
but she shouldn't have taken his fecking ice cream out of the freezer in the first place!
.... not to mention leaving it in a boiling hot tent, not telling him, not giving him a chance to move it, and not taking any share of the responsibility for any of it. Just leaving it there ffs!
Would his ice cream have frozen properly if she hadn't taken it out? Maybe not, but it would have been a fecking sight more frozen than it was - that's a given. Did he put it in the 'wrong' freezer, was it out for 40 seconds only? Who knows - but that's not the point really is it?
if she wanted it moved she should have called him to move it! Taking it out and just shoving it on the side, is bang out of order which ever way you look at it, and something should have been said, acknowledged, explained, and Ian cut some slack, rather than completely ignoring what had happened and focusing on his reaction, rather than what led up to it.
I shall now climb down off me soap box!