Good Morning Britain hosts Susanna Reid and Richard Madeley shared heartbreaking news on Thursday
Sara Baalla Screen Time TV Reporter
07:16, 22 Jan 2026Updated 08:14, 22 Jan 2026
Good Morning Britain’s Susanna Reid and Richard Madeley opened Thursday’s (January 22) live show with devastating “breaking news”. Today’s edition of the hit ITV programme was hosted by Susanna and Richard, who brought viewers the latest news from across the UK and around the world.
They were joined in the studio by Laura Tobin, who delivered regular weather forecasts, while Ranvir Singh handled the rest of the day’s news.
Just moments into the show, Richard and Susanna revealed that several people are missing after a landslide at a campground in the New Zealand tourist hotspot of Mount Maunganui.
Rescue workers have said there are no signs of life at the campsite – Minister for Emergency Management Mark Mitchell has confirmed “at least one young girl” is among those unaccounted for.
Richard Madeley and Susanna Reid announced devastating breaking news(Image: ITV)
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“Breaking news overnight, several people, including a child, are missing after a landslide hits a New Zealand campsite,” Richard announced, with Ranvir adding that the incident was a “dramatic weather event on the other side of the world”.
Ranvir went on: “Rescuers and sniffer dogs are desperately digging through the debris at the popular tourist area of Mount Maunganui in the country’s North Island, which has been hit by record-breaking rainfall in recent days.”
In a pre-recorded segment, which showed footage of the landslides, reporter Lorna Shaddick explained: “A sunny holiday spot obliterated in seconds. Caravans crushed, tents flattened, and lives upended.”
Australian tourist Sonny Worrall said: “I heard this huge tree crack and all this dirt come off behind me, there was a caravan coming right behind me. It was the scariest thing I’ve ever experienced in my life.”
Lorna continued: “Eye-witnesses say they did hear some voices from the rubble at first, but the emergency services had to withdraw because of the risk of another landslip. No signs of life have been detected since.”
Several people are missing following a landslide in New Zealand(Image: ITV)
Superintendent Tim Anderson shared: “Whilst the land’s still moving, they’re in a risky mission to rescue those people, so I can’t be drawn on numbers, but what I can say is that it’s single figures.”
Mount Maunganui is an extinct volcano on the north island with a holiday park nestled underneath it. The whole area has had its wettest day on record, with over two months of rain in twelve hours, leading to power outages and dangerous flooding.
Wrapping up her report, Lorna revealed: “Forecasters are calling it a once-in-a-hundred-year event.”
The Emergency Management Minister has since confirmed that two bodies have been recovered from a separate landslide at Welcome Bay in Papamoa, according to the ABC. The Papamoa landslide had previously left two people missing and one seriously injured.
“It’s a fluid and sensitive issue at the moment,” Mr Mitchell told Radio New Zealand when speaking about the Maunganui landslide. “Everyone is working as hard as they can to get the best possible resolution, but it is a very difficult and challenging situation.”
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