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Host of her own self-titled ITV breakfast programme Lorraine Kelly, 61, took to Twitter in a panic today after mistakenly thinking that Line of Duty creator Jed Mercurio was referencing her in a tweet. It comes after some fans of the hit BBC show were left in an uproar following the programme’s controversial ending on Sunday night and the show’s creator, Jed, wasn’t holding back as social media users blasted him over the ending.

I thought you were talking about me!

Lorraine Kelly

In view of her 646,000 followers, the ITV presenter replied to the writer’s tweet.

She wrote in reference to Ted Hastings’ (Adrian Dunbar) famous quote from the series: “Jesus, Mary and Joseph and the wee donkey @jed_mercurio – I thought you were talking about me!”

The confusion occurred as the creator of the hit series had responded after receiving a scathing comment from a fan following the show’s ending on Sunday night.

Replying to the comment, he wrote: “Lorraine is the result of what would happen if Jackie Laverty’s body parts were reassembled in the wrong order.”

The post that sparked his reaction blasted the writer for his “cheap little show”.

The social media user wrote: “You should be ASHAMED.

“Using your cheap little show which built up everyone’s hopes in a time of CRISIS just to throw a dig at our GREAT Prime Minister without whom you wouldn’t be writing for the taxpayer.

“Making a brain dead brummy the head honcho?? An absolute joke of ending,” they added bitterly.

The remark was left in response to the script writer penning another reply to a disgruntled fan of the show.

Following Jed’s thread which detailed the process that went into creating the final episode, a social media user hit back and said the creator was over-explaining the ending in response to viewers’ backlash.

Earlier today, the writer spoke out for the first time on the controversy surrounding the police drama.

Despite viewers finally discovering the identity of H, it wasn’t quite the ending they expected, and many were left disappointed.

In a series of tweets, the showrunner explained to his 189,000 followers that he knew the ending of Line of Duty would divide opinion.

“No one disputes the Line of Duty finale divided social media opinion but the audience research so far shows a far less extreme picture,” he began.

“We knew a ‘down’ ending would rate less favourably with some viewers, however, all 7 episodes varied by under 10% on average viewer score…

“The research determines the episode ratings based on randomly polling viewers, rather than sites like IMDB where scores can be skewed by users strongly motivated to register their immediate anger/adulation.” (sic)

He continued: “1000 random viewers submitted scores from 1-10 which have been used to calculate the Appreciation Index (AI) as a score out of 100. The AI for the ‘down’ finale was only 7 points below the next lowest in Season 6 (Ep 1) …

“These figures won’t stop the debate, of course, nor should they – that’s still all part of the experience of shared TV viewing. Thanks again for watching.”

Line of Duty 1-6 is available to watch on the BBC iPlayer.

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