Mortified BBC News host caught scrolling on her phone for an entire minute during live broadcast in major technical blunder – leaving viewers stunned
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A BBC presenter was caught scrolling on her phone for an entire minute during a live broadcast.
Annita McVeigh, 46, was left red-faced when she realised the news had gone completely silent during her lunch break as she was scrolling through her phone during a technical glitch.
Annita was unaware of the awkward silence, but she looked at her iPhone and spoke to her production team.
The blunder lasted more than a minute before the presenter realised she was already live on TV.
Then she emerged as a true professional newsreader, keeping things in order as the day’s biggest stories played out.
Annita McVeigh, 46, was visibly red in the face when she realised the lunchtime news bulletins had crept into total silence as she fiddled with her phone during a technical glitch
Annita was unaware of the awkward silence, but was seen scrolling through her iPhone and talking to her production team
The clip was then expanded to include headlines from that afternoon, including a special report from ‘Inside Afghanistan’.
But the unusual scene shocked afternoon viewers, who were left “in a panic.”
A user of X, formerly known as Twitter, expressed his amusement at the blunder, writing: ‘The moment Annita went to check her phone I started to panic’
“This is so funny”
‘It seems there are a lot more technical blunders happening at BBC News these days…is it the same team doing the sloppy work on the new Newsnight?’
‘Annita is such a professional, she laughs about this’
‘I thought my laptop speakers were broken.’
‘Reading her shopping list’
The blunder lasted more than a minute before the presenter realised she was already live on TV
She then appeared in every way a professional newsreader, styling the show as the day’s major stories began to play out
But the unusual scene shocked their afternoon viewers, who were left ‘in a panic’
The clip, which TV critic Scott Bryan originally shared, has been viewed more than 90,000 times on social media.
The mother of two has been a presenter at the BBC News channel since 2006 and temporarily left the channel in 2023.
In February, Annita returned to the company and was rightly promoted to main presenter.