THE CHASE STAR ANNE HEGERTY RESPONDS TO CHASER'S ROAD TRIP BACKLASH
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The Chase star Anne Hegerty appeared on Good Morning Britain where she spoke to hosts Ben Shephard and Susanna Reid about The Chaser's Road Trip.
Appearing alongside fellow Chaser Shaun Wallace, Anne was quizzed on the recent backlash from animal rights campaigners after the quizzing geniuses swam with dolphins in Florida.
Susanna asked: "Anne, your favourite moment was swimming with dolphins in Florida, but, there was some criticism wasn't there over the dolphins, did that sting?"
Anne replied: "It's not really something I want to get into.
"These, as I understand it, were rescue dolphins and as far as I knew, they were were very well looked after."
"I know there have been some issues with dolphin entertainment centres but my understanding was this wasn't the same sort of place.
© ITV/REX/ShutterstockAnne said the dolphins she swam with had been rescued and it was different to dolphin entertainment centres
"But really that's all I can say, I'm not an expert."
Ben remarked: "Well it looks like it was a great experience."
After the dolphins episode aired where the Chasers played with dolphins and studied their intelligence, the RSPCA issued a comment: "We were disappointed to see animals being used in this way on The Chasers Road Trip.
© ITVThe RSPCA and animal rights charities hit out at ITV for filming the stars of The Chase swimming with captive dolphins
"Swimming with dolphins may seem appealing to holidaymakers but we know that in reality they often have restricted space and can find swimming with people all day very stressful.
"Keeping dolphins and whales captive deprives them of some of the most basic freedoms and causes them unacceptable levels of stress and suffering.
"Captivity cannot provide for their needs and they can live shortened lives."
In the upcoming episode of The Chaser's Road Trip: Trains, Brains and Automobiles, they head to Japan to find out whether AI is a threat to humans.
And Shaun certainly thinks that is the case, saying: "You never know, man's ingenuity in terms of creating and inventing some of the robots we saw that did look humanlike.
"We have got to make sure that we are one step ahead of the game."
* Good Morning Britain airs weekdays on ITV at 6am, T he Chaser's Road Trip: Trains, Brains and Automobiles airs tonight at 9pm on ITV