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Major BBC blunder sees newsreader chatting and checking phone live on air


The clip shows Annita McVeigh looking at her phone and casually talking to people off-camera, oblivious to the fact that she is live to the nation...

A BBC newsreader was left red-faced after a technical mishap live on air caught her chatting and checking her phone during what she presumed was an ad break. Oblivious to being live, Annita McVeigh thought it wasn't showtime during the midday news segment on Monday, September 9. Following a one-year hiatus triggered by internal shuffling at the BBC, McVeigh toasted her return to the screen this March.

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