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21st Jul 2015

Bill Turnbull drops the C-bomb live on BBC Breakfast (Vine)

JOE

We weren’t expecting this with our cornflakes…

BBC Breakfast presenter Bill Turnball had a bizarre brainfart this morning when he accidentally dropped the C-bomb upon an unsuspecting public.

The oddest thing about the sweary mistake was the delivery. The word he was having trouble with was ‘client’ – which he’d only just said.

Then there was the long deliberate pause before blurting out ‘c**t’, with the veteran host casually stating:

“I regularly speak to clients about illness and pass the knowledge onto other *long pause* c**ts, er, clients as well…”

Imagine him and fellow BBC ‘C-bomber’ presenter John Inverdale in the pub…