Ranvir Singh told viewers of Good Morning Britain that the overnight heat had made sleep hard, then warned Tom Swarbrick that the UK’s heatwave was not over even after London hit its hottest ever May temperature. Later in the same programme, she embarrassed Strictly Come Dancing professional Nikita Kuzmin by asking whether he was from Brazil.
Singh opened the morning segment by saying the temperatures had left people struggling to rest. “I certainly hope you got some hours last night. It was a tropical — I think actually officially was a tropical night in many places. It was difficult, wasn’t it?” she said, as Swarbrick replied that a few days of the heat had been lovely and suggested it was time for it to end. Singh cut across that line of thought with a blunt correction: “I hate to break it to you. It’s not the end of the heatwave,” she said.
The exchange landed after the UK had just recorded its hottest ever May temperature, with 34.8C reached in the country and 35C recorded in London on Tuesday. The previous May peak stood at 32.8C, a mark that had held since 1922 and was matched again in 1944. The numbers gave weight to Singh’s warning that the weather was not easing as quickly as some viewers might have hoped, and they also placed the morning broadcast squarely inside a wider heatwave that had gripped the country. This Morning presenters Tom Swarbrick and Ranvir Singh have been easing into their Good Morning Britain partnership in recent appearances, including the pair’s GMB debut covered separately when the hosting line-up was first introduced.
The mood shifted later in the programme when Singh spoke with Kuzmin about his downtime between an upcoming tour and the next series of Strictly. Kuzmin said he had recently been to Brazil and was taking some time off, but Singh then asked, “Is that where you’re from, no?” Kuzmin replied, “No, I’m from Ukraine. On the other side of the globe.” She went on to ask whether he still had family in Ukraine and how they were coping. Kuzmin said, “Yes I do,” and added, “Well, they are OK. They are OK.” Swarbrick then interjected, “It’s been a horrendous few years.”
The moment carried extra weight because Kuzmin has previously spoken about the war in his homeland, making Singh’s question awkward in a way that was plainly felt on screen. The mistake did not stop the conversation, but it did underline how quickly a light chat on morning television can turn serious. Kuzmin joined Strictly Come Dancing in 2021, and his exchange with Singh followed a segment that had already moved from weather warning to personal misstep in the space of one broadcast. For viewers, the answer to the morning’s first question was simple: the heatwave was still on, and the programme’s lighter moments did not change that.
