 Channel 5 aired The Big Benefits Row: Live, their own unconnected debate about the welfare state, on 3 February. Presented by Matthew Wright, the show featured a panel of guests made up of Conservative MP Edwina Currie, reality television star Katie Hopkins, former London Mayor Ken Livingstone, broadcaster Terry Christian, former model Annabel Giles, and two people associated with James Turner Street — charity campaigner Rev. Steve Chalke and Dierdre Kelly, known in the series as White Dee. The programme was watched by 2.1 million viewers. The Daily Express described it as a "heated debate" in which Hopkins was heavily critical of Kelly for claiming welfare, and of Giles's modelling career. The Independent's Jess Denham felt that Hopkins's "larger-than-life personality" had dominated proceedings, while "fact-based arguments were lost to the non-stop barrage of immature tempers". The Daily Mirror described it as "a mess of a programme and a joke of a discussion".
