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Daily Mail
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
BBC Breakfast branded a 'clown show' after star bolts off set in middle of live broadcast and 'car crash' interview leaves viewers cringing
BBC Breakfast has been branded a 'clown show' by fans after a weather reader bolted off set during a live broadcast - and a 'car crash' interview left viewers cringing. Hosts Naga Munchetty, 50, and Charlie Stayt, 63, presented Friday's installment of the daytime news show. And meteorologist Matt Taylor was forced to abandon his weather forecast due to a technical blunder which saw him flee the stage. The segment started smoothly, but the illustrative graphics were absent from the screen. 'Now, if we can just get these graphics to work,' Matt said, before adding: 'Are they going to come up? Well, if you do the forecast almost backwards…' The host then dashed off set to fetch another remote, but his efforts proved futile. Good-natured Matt carried on regardless, saying: 'No, it doesn't want to work, but anyway, let me just tell you quickly. 'Next week, we should see a bit more sunshine around, certainly across southern and eastern areas of the country.' Matt promised he'd be back for more once he got the graphics to work, but host Charlie asked: 'What happens behind there? 'Everyone's wondering now you've nipped off and you came back out. Do you keep some things there?' Matt revealed he keeps a selection of 'clickers' off set, and concluded he'd 'sort it out now'. Elsewhere on the show, crime novelist Lynda La Plante was discussing her latest book release The Scene Of The Crime. Having researched forensics for her novels, Lynda explained animatedly: 'If you have blood spattering, you could get an expert that deals only with that, and they could walk in and see pooling, splattering-' But she was interrupted by Naga, who quickly warned her: 'Careful! It's breakfast.' Good-natured Lynda seemed unfazed, and laughed: 'Sorry!' but it wasn't long before Naga delivered another blunder, forgetting the name of the hit crime series inspired by Lynda's most famous book. 'In the book, when you have the forensic expert come in who runs the team and has this history, there is a little bit of discomfort in terms of how the team responds,' Naga begins. 'When you were writing for, erm… Oh my goodness, how have I just…' Co-host Charlie then chimes in with the correct name: 'Prime Suspect,' and Naga says, relieved: 'Prime Suspect - thank you.' Still undeterred, Lynda continues with the inspiration behind her book, saying: 'What I loved in The Scene Of The Crime is he's not dead - he's alive! The victim is alive!' But Naga scrambles to prevent Lynda from revealing the central surprise, speaking over her to say: 'Don't spoil it! Don't spoil it, don't spoil it because there are, as usual, many twists.' Frantically segueing into another line of enquiry, Naga asks awkwardly: 'Do you ever - I avoid, often, crime and murder novels because I get squeamish.' 'But this isn't too much for me. I can only speak for myself. Do you ever think there's a limit? You wouldn't go too far in terms of description and squeamishness?' 'A limit of the horror?' clarified Lynda, before answering: 'I think there is my own limit. 'We can give a name to virtually every reason for a crime, you can say they had a horrible background, an abused child, or psychological problems, but there is no-one that can ever say "This is what made evil". We haven't got it. Charlie then asked Lynda: 'We're almost out of time. Do you think you would have made a good detective yourself?' But Lynda insisted she would be 'dreadful', adding: 'I talk too much and I think I'd get awfully upset.' Fans of the show weren't impressed, and rushed to social media to express their disapproval. One wrote: 'Never, ever let Charlie ad-lib. F***ing disaster every single time.' Another said: 'Who needs to go to the Edinburgh Festival when you get a clown show every day in Salford on BBC Breakfast?'
The Sun
02-06-2025
- Business
- The Sun
This Morning chaos as technical blunder sees Sharon Marshall forced to call chef Phil live on air
A TECHNICAL blunder on This Morning forced Sharon Marshall to call chef Phil live on air. The ITV show is no stranger to experiencing technical blunders on some occasions. 4 4 4 Viewers had already seen Phil, 64, cooking up a tasty meal in This Morning's allotment. Presenters Ben Shephard and Cat Deeley ran into an unfortunate technical blunder while trying to get an update. Ben, 46, told the audience: "Phil is cooking up a delicious dish for the whole family and he's live from The This Morning allotment." "It looks wonderful down there, Philip. We're trying to connect up his ear - can you hear us, Phil?" The technical blunder saw Phil unable to hear Ben as he instead continued preparing the dish he was working. Cat laughed as she quipped: "He could be just ignoring us", while Ben remarked: "Oh, dear." Looking for a solution, Ben asked out loud: "Has anyone got a phone? Someone phone him. Can the cameraman hear us?" He added: "So, nobody can hear us at the moment. This is quite fun, we can just watch them and see what they get up to." In the background, soaps expert Sharon Marshall said she was calling Phil on her phone. After showing a contest for viewers, however, the show was soon back on track. This Morning star reveals HUGE change to the show amid ITV cuts The presenters managed to successfully connect to Phil in the allotment this time. Elsewhere, a This Morning star revealed bosses have made a U-turn on a bizarre rule amid ITV cuts. Sweeping changes were announced last month to ITV Daytime shows that will impact the likes of This Morning, Loose Women and Lorraine. More than 220 jobs will be lost as part of the shake-up — meaning almost half of the 450 employed on the four flagship shows GMB, Lorraine, This Morning and Loose Women will be let go. But amid the changes, This Morning have introduced a style change. Ben Shephard's career to date 1998 - Got his big break when he hosted The Bigger Breakfast for Channel 4 2000 - Joined GMTV breakfast (now GMB) presenting Entertainment Today before becoming a permanent host in 2005 2004 - Ben hosted the first three series of The X Factor's spin-off series Xtra Factor 2006 - Presented singing contestant Soapstar Superstar alongside Ferne Britton 2006 - Landed his own Saturday show with Magic Radio 2008 - Hosted Who Dares, Sings! with Denise van Outen 2009 - Ben presented revived the classic game show The Krypton Factor 2010 - Signed a reported £495k deal with Sky Sports to front Goals on Sunday and other sporting specials 2013 - Returned to ITV daytime with Tipping Point 2015 - Co-hosted Ninja Warrior UK with Rochelle Humes and Chris Kamara 2019 - Quit Sky Sports and Goals on Sunday 2024 - Left Good Morning Britain to join This Morning with Cat Deeley The show has long had an unwritten rule in place that meant presenters could not wear a specific item of clothing. However, show staple Rochelle Humes said on TikTok: "There's a new rule, we didn't used to be allowed to wear jeans, did we? "But we can wear jeans now. This is amazing news for me." This Morning airs on ITV1 and ITVX. 4
Daily Mail
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
BBC Breakfast host replaced in fresh presenter shake-up - and stand-in immediately struggles with live technical blunder
BBC Breakfast underwent a fresh presenter shake-up on Monday morning - and the stand-in host suffered with a live technical blunder live on the show. Monday to Wednesday's instalments of the programme are usually presented by Jon Kay, 55, and Sally Nugent, 53, followed by Naga Munchetty, 50, and Charlie Stayt, 62, Thursday to Saturday. However Jon was joined by step-in Sarah Campbell on the iconic red sofa instead. And unfortunately the pair had to navigate a technical error when weatherwoman Carol Kirkwood, 62, was presenting one of her segments. Carol was live from Chelsea Flower Show at the historic Royal Hospital Chelsea in London to update viewers with if there was going to be any sunshine. Jon said: 'Carol is therefor us this morning at the Chelsea Flower Show. A sneak peek of the doggy garden a bit later...' As the journalist was talking to camera, Carol was seen smiling in the background on the big screen, but suddenly it went black. He continued: 'But where is she now?!' Sarah couldn't hide her shock and said: 'Oh!' and then added: 'Oh she's back?!' Jon added: 'That's the really dark garden...' 'The night garden,' Sarah giggled back. Jon then went back to see if Carol was on the screen and said: 'Hey morning Carol, morning!' Carol replied saying: 'Good morning!' but before she could finish her sentence the screen went black again. The camera went back to Jon and Sarah in the studio who couldn't hide their disappointment. Carol replied to Jon and Sarah: 'Good morning!' but before she could finish her sentence the screen went black again Sarah said: 'Oh no!' Jon joked: 'I was looking for bright flowers, sunshine... a garden alive.' Sarah said: 'I'm sure once we've got the technicals working we will be straight back to Carol because we all want to know what's going on in Chelsea!' Later on in the show Jon told viewers: 'We've fed and watered our technical equipment at the Chelsea flower show, and Carol is blooming again...' The weatherwoman then returned to our screens and managed to present the segment without any problems. It comes after Charlie Stayt took a cheeky swipe at his co-star live on air during Friday's instalment of BBC Breakfast last week. During the show, business reporter Peter Ruddick broadcast live from Drayton Manor Resort, in Staffordshire, and discussed increasing ticket prices due to rising running costs Peter said: 'Charlie, Naga, I've been having a little wander around, there is a Thomas Land, it looks quite sedate, I'm quite keen on that.' He joked: 'I think I'll probably keep to maybe having a go on the nice little horses over here. Look at that, that looks about my style, about my speed, not too high, what do we think?' Naga quipped: 'I think Charlie would join you on those, wouldn't you? That would be more your thing wouldn't it?' 'I'd be fine with that, I think what you need to do is a variety of things,' Charlie replied. Peter added: 'I'm a very serious business journalist.' 'Who told you that? Who said that?' Charlie quipped in a cheeky swipe, while Naga laughed in the background.
