Martin Lewis sparks chaos as viewers crash government website minutes into ITV show

caused chaos moments into his evening show as The Martin Lewis Money Show fans crashed the government website just five minutes into the show. During Tuesday’s visit (March 4) to the studios, the This Morning money expert, 52, returned to the helm of the money saving programme with all the latest financial deals.

The biggest topic of the show was how viewers can check if they can boost their affecting fans aged between 40 and 73. The dad-of-one explained how Brits can turn £800 into £5,000 by boosting state pensions before the door slams shut in April 2025. And it’s fair to say fans were listening to his every word, after he revealed that the government website had crashed just five minutes into the late-night show.

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Martin Lewis caused chaos moments into the ITV show (Image: ITV)

As he welcomed viewers back after the advert break, he revealed: ” Welcome back. Tonight it’s all about boosting your by possibly tens of thousands of pounds for an urgent deadline.

“I predicted it before the break, the government website that do the checks has gone down, apparently it went down five minutes into the programme. It’s going to struggle, it’s like a denial of service error but there’ll be time still to do it. Keep watching and learning what you need to do while you can get in touch.”

The TV star went on to reveal that he did inform the company about the topic of his financial show before starting the show, but admitted that “no website can cope” with the flood of checks from his viewers.

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