‘Wrong Said Fred’: Rob Rinder hits back after Right Said Fred question choice to help Strictly partner’s grandparents flee Ukraine

Rob Rinder and Right Said Fred
Rob Rinder took goal at Proper Mentioned Fred (Image: Speak Radio/Twitter / Getty)

Decide Rob Rinder has clapped again at Proper Mentioned Fred, after they questioned if he’d reported from different conflict zones as he heads to the Ukraine border.

Rob, 43, is flying out to the Ukranian border on Monday to assist the grandparents of his Strictly Come Dancing companion, Oksana Platero, as they attempt to flee the nation.

talkRadio shared a photograph of Rob in a press flak jacket as he prepares for the journey, however controversial band Proper Mentioned Fred weren’t impressed.

‘I don’t bear in mind him going to Yemen, Syria, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, Congo, Libya, Somalia, Sth Sudan or Iraq,’ they wrote, earlier than including: ‘Apologies if I’m flawed.’

Rob didn’t waste any time in setting the document straight, responding: ‘Unsuitable mentioned Fred. I used to be in Sierra Leone in 2003. What ya take into consideration that?’

The band have but to reply.

Rob and Oksana competed on Strictly collectively in 2016, reaching the semi-finals of the competitors, and have stayed shut associates since.

The professional dancer not too long ago shared her grandparents’ devastating ordeal whereas making an attempt to flee hazard because the Russian military advances its invasion of Ukraine. 

She wrote: ‘Expensive Associates, as you already know, many households are going by means of such hardship with the conflict in Ukraine. 

‘My household and my cousins, @kateryna_klishyna , household are escaping and near the border. My mom, my 10 yr previous brother, and Kateryna’s sister, left their residence the morning of March 2nd and arrived to security March sixth. As you'll be able to think about, the journey there was brutal however all that issues is that they made it, and they're protected.’ 

Rob Rinder
Rob is headed to the Ukraine border to assist Oksana’s grandparents (Image: Twitter/Robert Rinder)

She added that whereas she is ‘endlessly grateful’ that a few of her household are protected, it’s a distinct and regarding state of affairs for her aged kin. 

‘The remainder of our household which embrace our 3 grandparents, 2 who usually are not in a position to stroll, and Kateryna’s mother and pop are nonetheless in peril as they're at the moment nonetheless making an attempt to flee,’ she defined. 

It comes after Good Morning Britain presenter Rob detailed his mission to get to Poland for Monday to reunite with Oksana’s grandparents.

He wrote in tweets: ‘Oksana Platero my Ukrainian dance companion on @bbcstrictly gifted me a lot. Proper now her grandparents are every week into their wrestle to search out sanctuary in a protected nation.

‘I’ll be making an attempt to satisfy them on the border subsequent week. They’re just some of the hundreds of thousands who want us.’

In one other publish, he wrote: ‘Is dependent upon the place they make it to however I’ll be on the polish border from Monday.

‘In the event that they cross into Hungary the subsequent step can be getting them to security with their household.’

On Tuesday, the UN refugee company UNCHR revealed that a complete of two million individuals have now fled Ukrainian territory.

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