If you’ve got something on the brain, it invariably and involuntary ends up coming out of your mouth.
Take the example of current Conservative health secretary Jeremy Hunt MP. Nice chap, we’re sure you’ll agree. But whenever his name comes up on the news, TV journalists just can’t help getting a major case of verbal diarrhoea.
If you imagine the worst thing you could think to say on live TV, it funnily rhymes with Hunt – but for many red-faced journalists they inexplicably end up mispronouncing ‘Hunt’ and dropping the C Bomb instead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN0Jufu13Vo
We’re not quite sure if this was the case with Sky Sports News presenter Kate Abdo, but as she was ploughing through some football news she made a rather rude slip of the tongue.
She was bringing the latest on Arsenal’s hunt for a striker and had just seamlessly rolled the name Alexandre Lacazette off here tongue.
But she didn’t even get to the bit about a Valencia stars name cropping up without stumbling and blurting out a altogether different word…not once but twice.
Her reaction says it all…
https://twitter.com/jordimurphy/status/760162445600129024
It’s not the first time this sort of thing has happened on Sky Sports News either, oh no! They’ve got form for the odd sweary, erm, cock up.
One presenter on the channel was caught with a childish doodle of a penis on his notepad like in Year 7 maths at high school.
Then there was the time someone made the most sexually explicit typo you could imagine in a report on the Notts County vs Huddersfield match.
Still – it could have been worse – at least she didn’t read out some clearly fabricated and potentially-libellous quotes about a small-time Gibraltar club out live on air. That would have been daft.
