BBC Breakfast presenter Sally Nugent was forced to apologize after a guest swore on air.
The presenter, 52, and her co-host Jon Kay, 54, were interviewing Ditchling Museum of Art & Craft curator Nicolette Jones and cartoonist Steve Bell about an exhibition, Bloomin’ Brilliant, showing the work by the late illustrator Raymond Briggs, who created The Snowman, on Tuesday.
Steve turned the air blue when he said of his friendship with Raymond: “They were mainly picking on each other, but it was a lot of fun.”
Sally quickly closed the interview by saying: ‘Thank you both for speaking to us this morning.
“And I apologize if anyone was offended by the choice of language in that interview just now.”
BBC Breakfast presenter Sally Nugent was forced to apologize after a guest swore live on air in an on-air blunder.
To which Jon joked: “We should have done it with pictures, not words.” He would be a little safer, wouldn’t he?
Viewers took to X, formerly Twitter, after the mishap.
They wrote: “I just heard a man swear on BBC Breakfast while talking about books” and “I’m not offended, I swear like a bloody sailor, don’t worry Sally.”
It comes after Dan Walker took an apparent swipe at BBC Breakfast when he broke his silence on his return to his former employer last week.
The host, 47, appeared to laugh at the suggestion, as a fan asked him on Instagram if he would “ever come back” to his old morning show.
During a question and answer session, he responded with a photo of himself holding the Strictly Glitterball trophy with former BBC colleague Sally Nugent.
Dan wrote: “I miss my friends but… No,” followed by a laughing face emoji.
The journalist left BBC Breakfast in April 2022 after six years to join Channel 5 News, where he is reportedly paid £500,000 a year.
The presenter, 52, and her co-host Jon Kay, 54, interviewed Ditchling Museum of Arts and Crafts curator Nicolette Jones and cartoonist Steve Bell on Tuesday.
Steve turned the air blue when he said of his friendship with Raymond: “They were mainly picking on each other, but it was a lot of fun.”
Sally quickly closed the interview by saying: ‘Thank you both for speaking to us this morning. ‘And apologies if anyone was offended by the choice of language’
Viewers took to X, formerly Twitter, after the mishap. They wrote: “Just heard a man swear on BBC Breakfast while he was talking about books.”
It comes after Dan Walker took an apparent swipe at BBC Breakfast when he broke his silence on his return to his former employer last week.
It comes after Dan revealed he “used to cry in the toilets” while presenting BBC Breakfast during his appearance on last week’s installment of This Morning.
Dan recalled that getting up early at 3 a.m. was one of the difficulties of his job and caused him to struggle with lack of sleep.
Speaking to This Morning hosts Josie Gibson and Dermot O’Leary on the ITV daytime show, Dan shed light on the downsides of getting up double early for work.
He said: ‘When I used to do BBC Breakfast, you know what it’s like. If that alarm goes off at three it’s too early, it’s time to fly to Spain, right?
‘Now I get up around 5:30 or 5:45, which is essentially lying down and I feel great, I feel refreshed and I really enjoy the work I do.
‘On Wednesday I was like in full zombie mode. And you also get very emotional. On Wednesday I thought, at the end of the show, you’re in the bathroom crying.
‘Anything makes you nervous. Someone says something nice about your pants and you say (fake crying).
“Not every day (he cried), but I think you get a little emotional when you don’t sleep well.”