September 28th 2023.
Clive Myrie was left chuckling after a BBC camera got a little too close and personal with his co-star. The 59-year-old had been rounding off Thursday's 10 o'clock news segment when he was about to introduce Newsnight with Faisal.
However, the cameras were ready a bit too early and zoomed straight into Faisal's face, leaving Clive reacting on the spot while his fellow presenter hadn't noticed yet. With Faisal projected onto the large screen behind him, Clive couldn't help but laugh.
One fan joked, "I'm not ready for my close up, Mr Myrie!" while another added, "Love the reaction of @CliveMyrieBBC whenever this happens!" Clive simply laughed off the awkward camera angle.
This isn't the first time the BBC have been no stranger to blunders over recent weeks, from newsreaders not realising they're still on air to awkward intruders in the background. In fact, days before this incident, the BBC had to apologise after a chaotic Huw Edwards blunder on BBC Breakfast.
The gaffe happened on Saturday when a Newswatch segment from 2017 was broadcast about Hurricane Maria. It cut to a clip of Edwards, who was named by his wife as the BBC presenter at the centre of the explicit pictures scandal, who reported on the natural disaster that devastated the northeastern Caribbean.
Ben Thompson realised the error and swiftly apologised to viewers at home, blaming the incident on ‘technical gremlins’. He said, "So you might have noticed, the eagle-eyed viewers amongst you, that was quite an old episode of Newswatch so we will find the right one and make sure we can bring that to you. So apologies, a few technical gremlins at this end."
It seems that the BBC has had its hands full with blunders recently, but it's nice to see that Clive had a good sense of humour when it came to the camera gaffe.
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