BBC Breakfast’ host Sally Nugent was forced to step in after a man heckled “slash the licence fee” to a reporter live on air.
Journalist Peter Ruddick was hosting a segment for the morning show on location from Manchester Piccadilly station on Tuesday (October 3) when a passer-by appeared out of nowhere and started shouting down the camera.
Peter struggled to finish sharing the news about the potential loss of Northern leg of HS2 to Manchester due to the man shouting and the camera quickly went back onto Sally at the studio. The presenter later told viewers: “Peter having a bit of unwanted attention there so let’s move on shall we for a moment.
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The awkward moment didn’t go unnoticed by viewers watching at home. Taking to X, formerly known as Twitter, one fan penned: Most sensible thing said in TV this morning ‘scrap the tv licence fee’, another added:”Absolutely dead at the man who was screaming about the TV Licence on #BBCBreakfast just now.” A third person said: “Scrap the tv licence fee was what the guy was saying #BBCBreakfast.” Someone else said: “Oh dear #BBCBreakfast.”
After weeks of speculation, the high-speed rail line between Birmingham and Manchester is set to be shelved, according to reports. Sally and her co-host Jon Kay went on to chat to Chief Political Correspondent Henry Zeffman about the news.
Elsewhere in the programme, the presenters welcomed Lisa Stockdale, from the Jenner Institute at Oxford University, onto the programme to discuss the development in the cheap malaria vaccine project but things didn’t quite go to plan.
Jon kicked off the interview by Lisa “How significant could this vaccine be?” However, due to technical difficulties, Lisa couldn’t be heard as she gave her answer to the question. After a long pause, Jon said: “I’m sorry, we don’t have sound on you there. I don’t know wether Lisa, despite all her medical expertise and scientific genius, has maybe left it muted. We’ve all done that.”
However, within minutes, Lisa returned and discussed the malaria vaccine update, which has been developed by the University of Oxford and is only the second malaria vaccine to be developed. Malaria kills mostly babies and infants, and has been one of the biggest scourges on humanity.
There are already agreements in place to manufacture more than 100 million doses a year. It has taken more than a century of scientific effort to develop effective vaccines against malaria. The disease is caused by a complex parasite, which is spread by the bite of blood-sucking mosquitoes. It is far more sophisticated than a virus as it hides from our immune system by constantly shape-shifting inside the human body.
The blunder comes just one day after Jon accidentally called comedian Les Dennis the wrong name following his exit from Strictly over the weekend. During Monday’s (October 2) episode, Sally and Jon discussed Les’ departure but the latter instead called him “Len Dennis” after getting mixed up with their guest Lenny Henry, who was a guest on the sofa that day.
BBC Breakfast airs daily on BBC One at 6am
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