- BBC newsreader Tom Donkin was reporting on hurricane Irma on Saturday night
- The journalist was filmed desperately trying to get on camera in hilarious clip
- The clip was shared by an amused viewer on Twitter where it quickly went viral
When it comes to live TV anything can happen, as BBC newsreader Tom Donkin discovered over the weekend.
Donkin, who lives in London, was delivering a report on Hurricane Irma on Saturday at 2am when he suffered a blooper on camera.
Following the opening credits the programme starts in silence as the journalist realises he is not on camera.
Viewers were left in hysterics during Tom Donkin’s report on hurricane Irma when the BBC newsreader struggled to find his camera mark
The newsreader can be hot footing it to the other side of the studio in attempt to find his mark but is left with his back facing the viewer.
Eventually Donkin, who is thought to be working with robotic cameras, turns after realising he is still not on screen before quickly recovering from the blunder and introducing the report with a traditional ‘hello, and welcome.’
And while viewing figures of the news may not be sky high post midnight on a Saturday that didn’t spot those who did catch the clip from sharing it on Twitter.
Twitter users were left in hysterics over the clip with some comparing him to hapless fictional news anchor Bridget Jones
Andrew Roberts, from South London, captured the clip on his phone and shared it with his followers captioning it: ‘wonderful car crash opening to BBC World News just now. Pick a camera, any camera’.
Following his tweet, the moment that Donkin would probably rather forget has gone viral with the clip amassing over 3,000 retweets and 9,000 likes.
After his tweet gained some serious attention Roberts took to Twitter to apologise to the journalist writing ‘Sorry @BBCTomDonkin I didn’t expect it to go viral like this.’
However, it seems that the presenter was able to see the funny side of the incident.
He later tweeted: ‘This stuff happens with live TV. Never had so much attention albeit odd attention.’
After his tweet went viral Roberts apologised to the BBC journalist, but it seems that Donkin was able to see the funny side