Adil Ray revealed he was almost killed as a toddler in a racist attack with a brick.
The Citizen Khan star, 47, was having his nappy changed by his mother when the missile was thrown through a window and just missed his head.
He said: “My mum was changing my nappy I mean as a toddler and a brick comes through the window and misses my head by half an inch or something – and then she goes, ‘That’s it then, we’re moving’.
“Then we moved into a slightly nicer part of the area, semi-detached and it was lovely. But we heard that half the street had tried to get together to try and buy the house when they heard a load of Asians were moving in.
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“That was sort of a real wow moment. This is early 1979 or 1980. There were lots of moments like that.”
The Good Morning Britain host, who has a Pakistani Muslim father and a mother from East Africa, was living in Birmingham, West Mids, at the time of the incident.
He added: “I was very young but I do remember it.
“Some days some things would just go missing from the house or garden gates would go missing.”
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It comes after Adil and co-host Susanna Reid were forced to broadcast footage of an empty chair on Good Morning Britain as Michael Gove failed to appear on the ITV show as planned.
The Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities was due to explain the long-awaited levelling up report.
Adil and Susanna were poised to quiz Gove on the report and were left reeling when he failed to appear on the show.
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Susanna began: “We would like to say welcome to the show to a government minister this morning but on the day this long-awaited levelling up report [which was] one of the key planks of the Conservative manifesto back in 2019, and one of the reasons people in red seats might have been tempted to vote for the Conservatives to level up across the UK.
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“Well unfortunately the minister in charge has decided to leave our chair empty. It happens occasionally, it’s been four and a half years, for instance, since we interviewed the Prime Minister.”
Adil added: “I’m trying not to take it personally because when I was on last Wednesday someone didn’t show up as well.”
Speaking to ITV viewers about Gove’s absence, he fumed: “Empty chairs, empty policies.”
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