Piers Morgan was left embarrassed on Good Morning Britain today as he warned viewers that an asteroid was just four miles away from Earth.
The presenter’s GMB co-star Susanna Reid had to quickly correct the 55-year-old star’s blunder – clarifying that the asteroid is actually four million miles away.
Speaking on the ITV show this morning Piers explained: “Talking about something wrong, we have an asteroid crashing within four miles of Earth.”
Susanna replied: “Is it four miles?? I thought it was four million miles?!”
Piers laughed off his mistake, but it the error was brought up again later in the show.
(Image: ITV)
He commented: “An asteroid that is 1.2 miles wide will fly by Earth next week, it’s not expected to collide with our planet – that’s comforting!”
Piers continued: “On April 29th, tomorrow, it will pass within 3,908,000 miles of Earth, moving at 19,000 miles an hour.
“It’ll be 16 times further than the distance between the Earth and the moon, so we are probably going to be okay.”
Susanna Reid had to quickly correct Piers’ error (Image: ITV)
Susanna jibed: “So when you said within four miles… Can we just downgrade that warning?
“Hashtag: Fake News!”
Piers chuckled as he added: “Yes, I didn’t want to panic anyone.”
He added: “I think I must have read how wide it is, but it’s only 1.2 miles wide.
“What a great big lump of rock, imagine that landing on your head!”
Susanna quipped again: “Except, let’s not imagine that because it’s millions of miles away.”
Good Morning Britain airs weekdays on ITV at 6am
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
