{"id":161943,"date":"2022-08-11T10:00:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T10:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=161943"},"modified":"2022-08-11T10:00:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T10:00:40","slug":"parents-blast-chris-kamara-after-shambles-ninja-warrior-uk-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/parents-blast-chris-kamara-after-shambles-ninja-warrior-uk-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents blast Chris Kamara after &apos;shambles&apos; Ninja Warrior UK event"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Fuming parents blast Chris Kamara after queuing in heat for four hours to watch filming of Ninja Warrior UK &#8211; only to see contestants climbing a rope on a big screen for 40 seconds<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The newly-returned ITV series has just come back after a three year hiatus<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Host Chris Kamara encouraged his 1.8million Twitter followers to attend<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Kamara received backlash after the event where people were left hours\u00a0<\/strong><b>queuing<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Event-goers, who saw 40 seconds of action, called the day a &#8216;shambles&#8217;<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Furious parents have blasted Chris Kamara after travelling to the grand final of Ninja Warrior UK &#8211; only to be left queuing for hours in 30C heat and seeing 40 seconds of action from a TV screen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The newly-returned ITV series, hosted by\u00a0Ben Shephard, Chris Kamara and Rochelle Humes has just come back after a three year hiatus.<\/p>\n<p>But hundreds of people branded Wednesday&#8217;s event in Manchester a &#8216;shambles&#8217; and a &#8216;s*** show of a day&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/08\/11\/10\/61284045-11101623-image-a-18_1660208984082.jpg\" height=\"96\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The backlash began after Chris Kamara posted on Twitter to encourage more people to buy tickets to the show.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He told his 1.8 million followers: &#8216;Still a few spaces left for the Grand Final of Ninja Warrior UK&#8230; come up to Manchester and join the brilliant fun&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>After the event had ended, Kamara was met online by furious parents &#8211; all sharing their disappointing experience of the day.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/08\/11\/10\/61284043-11101623-image-a-19_1660209022664.jpg\" height=\"461\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>One parent tweeted: &#8216;Kammy we have just come out. We queued for 4 hours to watch a rope climb- two very upset kids! No one even went around the course. We watched the rope climb from a tv screen&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Another user pleaded: &#8216;I know it\u2019s not your fault but can you get involved please? They were so looking forward to this and it ended up being an awful experience.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The show&#8217;s sixth season, based on 25-year-old Japanese programme Sasuke, has returned with an updated format &#8211; in which ordinary contestants face off against &#8216;Ninjas&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On the show&#8217;s return,\u00a0Katie Rawcliffe, ITV\u2019s Head of Entertainment Commissioning, said the show will be &#8216;all new, enhanced and reinvigorated, containing all the electricity, excitement and entertainment needed to make compulsive Saturday night viewing.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/08\/11\/10\/61282537-11101623-image-m-22_1660209050842.jpg\" height=\"489\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The newly-returned ITV series, hosted by Ben Shephard, Chris Kamara and Rochelle Humes has just come back after a three year hiatus<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/08\/11\/10\/61282533-11101623-image-a-21_1660209042034.jpg\" height=\"829\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of people branded Wednesday&#8217;s event in Manchester a &#8216;shambles&#8217; and a &#8216;s*** show of a day&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/08\/11\/10\/61282527-11101623-image-a-26_1660209350377.jpg\" height=\"462\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Pictured: Ben Shephard (left) and Chris Kamara (right), arriving for filming on Wednesday<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/08\/11\/10\/61282531-11101623-image-a-27_1660209894581.jpg\" height=\"1096\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Rochelle Humes also made her return for the show&#8217;s sixth season<\/p>\n<p>However, excitement quickly turned to disappointment yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>One user tweeted: &#8216;Honestly it was an utter disgrace and my kids were heartbroken.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Waited in line for four hours for a 40 second rope climb we couldn\u2019t even see. They are gutted, I am out of pocket and the entire day was wasted and so disappointing.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Another, who had travelled over 130 miles from Newcastle said: &#8216;It wasn&#8217;t brilliant today, it was awful.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Travelled 130 miles from Newcastle with my 3 kids, stood and queued for four hours in 29 degree sunshine, all to see 10 seconds of rope climbing. Huge waste of our time. Shame on you.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/08\/11\/10\/61284047-11101623-image-a-23_1660209103480.jpg\" height=\"542\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/08\/11\/10\/61284041-11101623-image-a-24_1660209109595.jpg\" height=\"156\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/08\/11\/10\/61284039-11101623-image-a-25_1660209135560.jpg\" height=\"441\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Chris Kamara, ITV and producers Potato, the ITV Studios label behind The Chase, Beat The Chasers and Moneyball, have been contacted for comment.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11101623\/Fuming-parents-blast-Chris-Kamara-queuing-heat-four-hours-watch-Ninja-Warrior-UK.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fuming parents blast Chris Kamara after queuing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":161942,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23056],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Parents blast Chris Kamara after &amp;apos;shambles&amp;apos; 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