Nine News reporter left humiliated as she makes a shocking on-air gaffe: 'I'm normally a serious journalist'
Nine News Melbourne journalist Lana Murphy took to TikTok on Tuesday to own up to her mistake.
Lana shared a clip that showed her delivering a seemingly innocuous report about school holiday activities in Melbourne.
The segment was quickly derailed, however, when Lana clearly forgot her script.
It seems her ad-libbing abilities may need some work, with the reporter uttering a string of nonsense.
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'We will have a full list of all the possible school holiday activities and...' she said, before pausing briefly in an attempt to remember her lines.
'Dib-a-dib-a-dib-a-dib-a-doo' was all Lana could muster before finally getting back on track.
The segment then cut back to presenter Brett McLeod in the studio, who seemed at a loss to explain Lana's bizarre gaffe.
'Well, there you go,' he said.
Seeing the funny side of her error, Lana captioned her clip with a self-effacing: 'I wish I could say this was the first time my real personality went to air.'
'I promise I'm normally a serious, professional journalist.'
Lana's followers also saw the funny side, with many flooding the comments to praise the reporter for the hilarious clip.
'Honestly my new favourite journalist,' one commented, while another offered a similar: 'Crying this is so good.'
One inquisitive fan asked about the ramifications of the error with: '1) Did you not think it was live or something? 2) What happens to you after? Do they laugh it off or do you get in trouble for this?'
Replying, Lana revealed that her gaffe made it to air due to an editor's mistake.
'Not live!' she said. 'It was a pre-record for the afternoon news.
'So, whenever I stumble... I just start over again and MOST of the time the editor cuts it up and just uses the good bit...but he missed this and thought it was ALL the good bit.'
Lana added: 'l really should know by now to just get it done in one take or at least not act like a fool when I make a mistake.'
It's not the first time the reporter has committed an embarrassing on-air gaffe.
Back in 2020, Lana was forced to apologise after she dropped an F-bomb during a report on the coronavirus pandemic.
The journalist was seen stumbling over her words before sheepishly telling someone off-camera: 'F*** my life.'
Thinking the camera had stopped rolling, Lana began fussing with her locks before the segment cut back to Alicia Loxley in the studio.
It was evident that Lana's package was filmed beforehand; however, the wrong footage was accidentally handed over for the final show.
Days after the flub, Lana tweeted her apologies and confirmed that she hadn't been fired for the gaffe because it wasn't her fault.
'Unfortunately, the wrong version (clearly) of a pre-record made it to air but thankfully I have a great boss and I'll be back on your screens tomorrow,' she wrote.
'2020 though, am I right?'
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