Lee Anderson suitably mocked after weird cat food joke on his TV show backfires: ‘Are you mental?’

Lee Anderson has been accused of ‘hitting a new low’ by urging a guest on his GB News show to eat cat food.

The Tory Deputy Leader, 56, is the latest Conservative MP to land their own show and has already made his handful of viewers wince by trying to feed Tory MP Brendan Clarke-Smith cold baked beans.

This time he made several attempts to get fellow GB News presenter and former The Apprentice star Michelle Dewberry to gobble up some tinned fish pate for cats.

Understandably, despite dressing up as a cat on her own show to mock teenagers identifying as cats (even though they were joking) she declined.   

Anderson teased he was testing to see if she was a real cat which is absolutely wild in itself, and persisted to push the pet food on Dewberry.

‘Just a few weeks back, Michelle, you appeared as a cat with some “feline feelings” and we want to dismiss this as just a blip,’ Anderson began.

Lee Anderson tries to make GB News star eat cat food (Picture: GB News)

It didn’t take a detective to see where this was going so sharp as a button Dewberry quickly interrupted: ‘If you’re about to bring out a plate of Whiskers you can bugger off.’

Despite the stunt being deeply uncomfortable, he continued.

‘There’s a tin of cat food here. We’re going to get it out to see if you’re a cat.’

Weird (Picture: GB News)

Dewberry suitable replied: ‘Are you mental? Well, no I’m not [a cat].’

Anderson offered to try the dish himself if she had a mouthful too.

Still, Dewberry, looking perplexed, said: ‘I don’t want to, no.’

Michelle Dewberry wasn’t having it (Picture: GB News)

It will come as no surprise the moment has been brutally mocked online.

Anderson was compared to George Galloway, as this is without question, the strangest politician-meets-cat moment since the Celebrity Big Brother star suddenly crawled on the floor and meowed for no explicable reason.

Others called for a general election, insisting the country has become a ‘laughing stock’.

‘Imagine if this was your MP?’ asked one appalled viewer.

Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesperson Sarah Olney complained: ‘This a new low even by the standards of Lee Anderson. Rishi Sunak should immediately condemn these disgraceful comments.

‘Anything else would be a damning indictment of his leadership of this sleaze-ridden Conservative government.’

Anderson announced he was joining GB News in March, proudly declaring: ‘GB News is the true voice of the great British silent majority.

‘I’m joining the people’s channel to ensure their voice is heard.’

He’s notoriously attacked food banks, insisting he could show people relying on them how to cook cheap and nutritious meals from scratch for ‘about 30 pence a day’ when even the average price for cat food is 75 pence per tin.

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Viewers called it ‘weird and deeply uncomfortable’.