Good Morning Britain host Ed Balls apologised to ITV viewers this week after making a big error while discussing the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria.
The presenter was discussing the devastating earthquakes in the studio with co-host Susanna Reid and journalists Kevin Maguire and Andrew Pierce on Wednesday morning (February 8).
It comes after a huge 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit southern Turkey in the early hours of Monday before a 7.5 magnitude quake hit the same area.
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But it all went wrong on GMB when Ed discussed the death toll after The Mirror’s Kevin noted that the earthquake had already killed double the number of the 9/11 disaster in 2001, which killed 2,977.
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Kevin said: “Sometimes when I go to football or the rugby and you look at the stadium, and there will be 40,000 people there and you think ‘that section is already gone’. Died.”
It prompted former MP Ed to compare the death toll to the capacity of Wembley Stadium, which is 90k.
“It’s already 80 Wembley stadiums that have died already,” he said.
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But Kevin looked baffled by the claim as it would have put the death toll into millions rather than thousands.
Ed looked confused for a moment before realising he’d majorly mixed up his figures.
He said: “No, no, no, I’ve got that wrong. That was my mistake. Bad calculations. Sorry, sorry, sorry.”
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As of Thursday (February 9), the death toll has almost reached 16k, with the World Health Organization worried that survivors could lose their lives withour water, shelter, fuel or electricity in the region.
Rescue efforts have been ongoing in the area in a bid to save as many people from the rubble as possible.
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