Mark Sargent, a former Neighbours actor turned Flat-Earth conspiracist, faced ridicule on This Morning after clashing with host Phillip Schofield. Sargent, who appears in the Netflix documentary Behind the Curve, insisted that live footage from the International Space Station is computer-generated imagery (CGI).
Phillip Schofield, 57, countered Sargent's claims by stating he had flown at 60,000ft on Concorde and witnessed the Earth's curvature firsthand. Sargent retorted that weather balloon footage from 120,000ft shows the Earth to be 'table top flat'. When Holly Willoughby asked if he was calling Schofield a liar, Sargent replied, 'No, I'm not saying that you're lying. I'm saying you wanted to see the curvature.'
Schofield responded, 'But don't you want to believe that it's flat. I've got more proof than you do.' The interview escalated as Sargent dismissed live ISS footage as CGI, claiming people 'weren't ready' to hear the truth. He suggested that Antarctica forms a 150-foot ice wall around the Earth's edge, preventing people from falling off.
Viewers took to Twitter to mock Sargent, branding him 'deluded'. The segment ended with Schofield sarcastically suggesting a holiday behind the ice wall, saying, 'Let's go there and see what's on the other side. There could be nicer places to be.'
