The telethon – that raised £71 million for domestic and international charities – left many people horrified by their game ‘Biscuit World Cup’.
It involved members of the public voting online for their favourite treat whilst panelists Miranda Hart, Rob Beckett, Joel Dommett, Sally Phollips and Richard Osman spoke about their best-loved biscuit.
They sat in front of huge piles of different biscuits including custard creams, chocolate digestives and chocolate fingers.
But the segment angered viewers as it was played immediately after a short film of comedian Russell Howard visiting famine-stricken Liberia.
He followed a four-month-old baby named Tabitha who had been taken to hospital by her father due to malnutrition.
Russell then revealed when they got back from visiting the African country, Tabitha had died but her father insisted they still showed the film.
After announcing the tragic news, he said: “It’s incredible isn’t it to think that in 2017 there’s still children in the world that are dying from hunger.”
Viewers immediately took to social media to critics the game with one calling it “unfathomable”.
“Sorry but, on a programme where kids are starving, why is there a whole mountain full of biscuits for a pointless competition? #comicrelief,” commented one person on Twitter.
Another said: “#Comicrelief just showed a video of a girl DYING OF HUNGER minutes before debating biscuits in front a table full of treats! Unfathomable!!!”
“A VT of a poor child who died from malnutrition, immediately followed by five rich people and a table COVERED in biscuits #comicrelief,” a third station.
“Talk about people starving, use the biggest plates of biscuits #comicrelief,” added another.
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