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<\/p>\nRichard Madeley has revealed he "genuinely doesn\u2019t care" about being compared to Alan Partridge by Good Morning Britain viewers – as long as it doesn\u2019t affect his career.<\/p>\n
The ITV presenter opened up about the "extraordinary abuse" he receives on social media, but claimed it doesn\u2019t bother him, as long as it doesn\u2019t stop the next work contract.<\/p>\n
Madeley, who previously presented This Morning as well as Richard & Judy, is often likened to Partridge – the famously crass comic television character played by Steve Coogan.<\/p>\n
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However, he said the online abuse came from a \u2018tiny minority\u2019 of people and it was \u2018really exceptional\u2019 for any abuse to happen face-to-face.<\/p>\n
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Speaking on the How To Be 60 podcast, the 67-year-old star said: "I do Good Morning Britain a lot now and I discovered that I only have to cough or sneeze in the wrong direction to get extraordinary abuse on Twitter.<\/p>\n
"I mean, really amazing stuff."<\/p>\n
When asked whether being "misrepresented"as a real life Alan Partridge and whether it bothers him, he added: "You have to analyse these things and be scrupulously realistic.<\/p>\n
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"If it affected the way I do the job, if it threw me off balance – it would be a problem, it would matter.<\/p>\n
"If it had ever affected a contract I was being offered, a job that I was being offered…if it mattered, then those thing wouldn\u2019t have happened, in other words, it would be justified in some way, shape, or form<\/p>\n
"But it\u2019s not, it\u2019s just abuse. I honestly don\u2019t care. I\u2019m not just trying to fend it off, I genuinely don\u2019t care because it\u2019s not real.<\/p>\n
"The abuse that we all get online, particularly on Twitter, it comes from a tiny minority of people."<\/p>\n
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Madeley said the "worst" real-life abuse he has received, when a GMB viewer walking along a coastal path near his holiday home in Cornwall confronted him.<\/p>\n
"He came right into my space, finger jabbing at my chest," he recounted.<\/p>\n
"And he said, 'I just want you to know that everything you've ever done, everything you've ever said or will say, I loathe and fucking despise, you c*** and beamed with pleasure.<\/p>\n
"I just burst out laughing, because he was ridiculous. But it was funny, his passion was funny.<\/p>\n
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"That\u2019s the worst thing right in my face, but honestly, I couldn\u2019t give a f**k."<\/p>\n
The television presenter insisted encounters like those were rare and interactions with viewers tended to be positive.<\/p>\n
He added: "That is really exceptional, I don\u2019t get that sort of stuff out in the street at all. People are very friendly, they often come up and talk. We have intelligent sensible conversations.<\/p>\n
"A lot of people are very nice to me when I\u2019m out and complimentary – the very opposite of what you would expect if you thought Twitter was real, and it\u2019s not.<\/p>\n
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