CONTROVERSY: Blast from reality TV past on Question Time… but Fiona Bruce fails to recognize singer who bizarrely appeared in audience to ask if ‘Labor is concealing Putin secrets’ – so do YOU know who she is?

This is the moment a reality TV star appears on Question Time to ask Labor’s Cabinet Secretary whether his party were concealing secrets about Vladimir Putin.

Host Fiona Bruce was joined by the likes of Environment secretary Steve Reed MP, Conservative Peer Lord Finkelstein, Daisy Cooper MP and journalist Andrew Marr on last night’s show. The panel were discussing Britain’s new political structure following the general election which saw Keir Starmer become the nation’s new Prime Minister.

Following Mr Reed’s opening remarks, Ms Bruce went to the crowd for their questions. After referring to the reality star as ‘the woman in the green top’, a former X-Factor contestant then quizzed Labor’s cabinet secretary on Putin’s Russia. The reality TV star in question was actually Katie Waissel, who came into the public eye when she was the tenth contestant eliminated in the seventh series of The X Factor.

She is also known for being a housemate in Celebrity Big Brother, where she finished in eighth place. When the microphone reached her in the audience, Waissel asked Steve Reed MP: ‘In your opening words you mentioned about Vladimir Putin and so I wanted to just ask if the Labor party was privy to any information that the United Kingdom may not be.

‘I’m just curious as to why you would mention that and should we be privy to this information.’ Mr Reed replied: ‘The reason was because it was Vladimir Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine that caused such a problem with the supply of fossil fuels to the UK because of the sanctions that were put on Russia following that.

‘If we control our own energy in this country – wind wave, solar and nuclear – we don’t have to import fossil fuels from elsewhere, we control our own energy then the actions of foreign dictators like Putin don’t affect us. ‘It keeps us safer and keeps us more secure but it cuts energy bills as well because clean energy is cheaper than fossil energy.’

People across social media were shocked to see the singer-songwriter on the programme, with one person writing: ‘Not Fiona Bruce addressing Katie Waissel as “woman in the green top”.’ Another commented: ‘Watching Question Time and pretty sure the X-Factor’s Katie Waissel has just asked a question about Labor being privy to info about Putin that the public isn’t …? Bit odd.’