Channel 4 presenter exposes real reason the late Queen went 'without' Sky TV

Former Strictly Come Dancing star Krishnan Guru-Murthy has revealed the real reason the late Queen Elizabeth II also went without Sky TV in a cheeky admission. The Channel 4 broadcaster admitted it was a "long story" as he attempted to keep it brief as he dished all to his 715,000 followers.

The TV journalist attempted to defend Rishi Sunak's remarks after he said in an interview with ITV News he went "without lots of things". The prime minister, who attended the fee-paying Winchester College, said his parents "wanted to put everything into our education and that was a priority".

Asked if he had ever gone without something, the PM told ITV: "Yes, I mean, my family emigrated here with very little. And that's how I was raised. I was raised with the values of hard work," before revealing he went without Sky TV.

Krishnan divulged the late Queen's relationship with cable television and said she was not too keen on using it, due to the difficulty of recording two programmes at once.

Taking to X, he explained: "Even the Queen didn't have Sky TV for a while. I once discussed this with her briefly at a Buckingham Palace media reception many years ago and (its a long story) she told me how difficult she found it trying to record one programme on her video recorder whilst watching another! I told her she should get Sky+ but we didn't think she'd be allowed to put a satellite dish on the roof."

A Twitter user queried: "I assume you mean the late Queen? The Queen to me will probably always be Elizabeth II. When I see 'the Queen' in an article and it refers to Camilla it still surprises me."

Krishnan clarified: "Yes of course!"

Broadcaster Jon Sopel replied: "A Nobel Prize-winning namedrop there Krish…..!"

Other social media users reacted to the post, as one person penned: "Ha, you name dropper." Another tweeted: "She grew up where 2 or 3 channels were enough..."

A third added: "What a lovely story."

During the interview with the prime minister, he was asked about things he had to sacrifice in his younger years.

Mr Sunak's father worked as a GP, while his mother ran her own pharmacy. The PM replied: "Lots of things."

Pressed for an example, he said: "All sorts of things like lots of people. There'll be all sorts of things that I would've wanted as a kid that I couldn't have. Famously, Sky TV, so that was something that we never had growing up actually."

Speaking on the campaign trail Mr Sunak said he was "very, very fortunate that my parents had good jobs".