A studio audience was reduced to hysterics after BBC Radio 5 Live presenter Mark Chapman was fooled into reading out a Tweet from a listener calling himself I McHunt live on air. No sooner had the 38-year-old host of the station’s 606 football phone in programme blurted out the joke name when he realised his error and apologised.
The gaffe drew an ovation lasting almost one minute from the live audience watching the show at the BBC’s Philharmonic Studio in Salford, Manchester. Announcing listeners’ messages sent to the programme on Twitter, Chapman confidently began: “I McHunt says Alex Ferguson … oh no.” After a crescendo of laughter, applause and cheering, the host, affectionately known as Chappers, admitted the mistake, saying: “Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. Oh dear.
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“I apologise to everybody listening. You’ve got me – it’s the oldest one in the book. Seriously though, I’m not even facing you lot at the moment because I’ve gone so red. Seriously, that is wrong and I shouldn’t have said it. I apologise.” After yet more applause, he added: “Don’t make it worse. I’m not even reading that tweet out now.”
Co-presenter and Blackburn Rovers striker Jason Roberts chipped in joking: “You just cannot get the staff these days. That geezer at home must be laughing.” The gaffe, which happened shortly after 7.15pm on Saturday – one hour and 11 minutes into the show – has not sparked any complaints, the BBC said. However, the prank raises questions over the vigilance of producers in vetting content used from the social networking site during live shows.
2 comments:
well : no harm done there - the audience & he himself had a jolly good laugh about it
same happened here, with a serious radio programme about allergies from medecines (can't translate it properly) but was a same sort of joke + the lady presenter said the word about 6 or 7 times before a prof of med reacted : that medecine does not exist
practical jokes are the best sometimes
Had he pronounced the H properly it wouldn't have been a problem.
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