ITV This Morning star sparks outrage after jetting to Tenerife for missing Jay Slater search

ITV's This Morning has come under fire after it sent one of its reporters to Tenerife amid the ongoing search for missing Jay Slater. Isla Traquair jetted off to the Spanish island for a segment on the 19-year-old Brit.

She retraced his steps from the club he had been at to a bus stop where he had asked about timetables. Traquair ended up in a mountainous area, where search teams are currently combing.

The reporter explained how she is well equipped for the rugged climate because she is Scottish and knows how to deal with the terrain. Her segment came just a day after the This Morning hosts slammed TikTokers investigating the case, warning others not to fly to Tenerife to join the search.

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Fans took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to share their outrage, Mirror reports. One said: " Isla now doing exactly what she scolded everyone else for?

"But she’s worse and taken in 5000 steps further." Another said: "Isla ‘Sherlock Holmes’ is on the case now!"

One person commented: "Oh she’s not messing is she, after yesterday’s segment "you know, I think it’d be a brilliant idea if I go to Tenerife"."

Someone else agreed: "Managed to wangle herself a trip to Tenerife!" Another viewer said: "Hold on, yesterday TikTok people going to Tenerife were getting in the way but it’s okay to send yet another reporter there?"

While another said: "Don’t worry, This Morning is on the hunt for Jay!" Earlier this week, Isla joined hosts Cat Deeley and Ben Shephard on the sofa to discuss Jay’s case.

She said: "I am a crime journalist and I started when I was 16. My goodness the way things are covered has changed a lot. The Nicola Bulley case, I have never seen anything like it.

"There were TikTokers on the location of possibly a crime scene. There were people videoing when her body was found. We are seeing that now and it is exactly what’s happening with this story."

She added: "TikTokers going out looking for him, while you might go that’s wonderful for people to volunteer but the police are saying "please don’t"."

Nick Ferrari also warned audiences and said: "We know the police have confirmed they got in the way of the Nicola Bulley case, these theorists. Some of them probably come from a good place, others I question. There is a degree of malice. It stops the investigators doing their job."