BBC News presenter Richard Preston was forced to halt a live broadcast after the national emergency alert test went off on air.
The journalist interrupted a guest on Sunday (April 23) as th alarm noise was heard from the studio.
He was chatted via video link as the 10-second siren sounded at around 3pm and was accompanied with a message.
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The guest was not distracted by the noise and continued to talk but host Richard lost consentration.
He looked straight into the camera and showed an awkward expression as the noise played out.
He then decided to interrupt the guest as he said: “Let me just interrupt you there, we’ve heard the alert going off as you’ve been speaking.”
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Richard continued: “Let’s go to some of our live shots now up and down the country of people receiving this alert.”
The camera then cut the images of people in the streets across the UK as their phones went off.
Viewers rushed to their keyboards to react to the on-air blunder.
Taking to Twitter, one user posted a video of the moment and wrote: “Surreal scenes as BBC News carried the emergency alert live.”
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Another added: “Obsessed with the presenter.”
A third penned: “This is way more hilarious than it deserves to be.”
“Well that was exciting. The only one heard was in the studio & no public reaction whatsoever,” a fourth social media user said..
The same alert also interrupted the broadcast on 5 Live Sport too.
The alarm was received by millions of mobile phone users in the UK as a loud alarm was emitted as part of a new public alert being tested by the Government.
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The trial of a system designed to warn Brits if there is a danger to life nearby with the warning being sent to all 4G and 5G devices.
It will be used in life-threatening emergencies including flooding and wildfires.
However, some mobile phone users failed to receive the alart.
One joked: “O didn’t get the national alert so i’d be dead by now if it was an emergency #emergencyalert”.
Another added: “So the National Alert didn’t even get sent to everyone? Can the government do anything right”.
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