Classic Blooper: BBC TV News Anchor Announces Wrong Guest During Live Broadcast!
- Posted on July 19, 2011 at 6:24am by
Tiffany Gabbay
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Mistakes happen to all of us, but we‘re still glad we didn’t have to stand in one BBC anchor’s shoes when he announced the wrong guest during a live news broadcast. Unfortunately for the anchor, the mistakenly identified guest didn’t seem to take the blunder too humorously, but, his response was priceless.
The blooper happened when the anchor — who was doing a segment on former Major League Baseball pitcher Roger Clemens — announced his guest, “Ben Walker,” baseball editor for the Associate Press.
The problem was that the actual guest featured during the segment was AdWeek editor Michael Wolff.
After being introduced to millions of viewers as Ben Walker, Woff told the anchor: “You know, it’s even a worse situation than that because I am not Ben Walker and I know nothing about baseball.”
ABC News brings us the cringe-worthy video:
Will the real Ben Walker please stand up?
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nobama4ever
Posted on July 20, 2011 at 12:31pmIf I would have been in Michael Wolff’s shoes, I would have played along for some more time without revealing the blunder and kept insisting that I didn’t know anything about baseball and start insulting the reporter and finally break the news that he has the wrong person for the interview.
Report Post »go2gym
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 9:46pmI’m sorry, my name is actually Ben Dover.
Report Post »miles from nowhere
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 4:56pmThis happens when you snort drugs, smoke a big joint loaded with THC and rat poison! So give this guy a break would ya!
Report Post »Impossible-Right-Wing-Mission-Force
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 2:38pmI know nothing like what happened to that guy would would ever happen to me but I would like to think that if it did I would just go with it and dazzle the BBC guy with outright BS.
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 4:01pmWrong. You just don’t know anything.
Report Post »Napkin
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 9:59amThe guy shouldn’t have said anything and just bluffed his way through. He could have gotten Mr. Walker in some serious poo! :-D
Report Post »SamIamTwo
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 9:14amWell we have sports broadcasters that pretend to be news reporters.
Report Post »FstEti
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 10:05amIt‘s worse than that’ we have news reporters pretending to be journalists!
Report Post »Sound The Trumpet In Zion
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 8:24amTypical lame stream media screw up. Nothing new going on here folks, move along.
However, I am curious about one thing:
Report Post »“You know, it’s even a worse situation than that because I am not Ben Walker and I know nothing about baseball.”
I don’t know anything about Ben Walker so I have to ask this question, does Ben Walker know anything about baseball any more than this Michael Wolff?
Islesfordian
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 6:53amPompous bbc anchor had no class in dealing with the screw up. Typical upperclass twit.
Report Post »BubbaCoop
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 6:37amNothing but the hard news…
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