Media personality Mia Freedman has been forced to apologize after she came under fire for comparing gay people to pedophiles on live television.

Freedman was lashed on social media for the comments she made on Channel Ten's 'The Project' on Thursday night when talking about the idea of a national pedophile register.

''We accept that gay people can't change who they love and they're sexually attracted to, so why do we think that people who are sexually attracted to children can be rehabilitated?''