VIDEO: WORST TV Gaffes in the History of Live Television. They Will Make You Cringe!

There are a lot of things that can go wrong when you are on live television. While a lot of bad things happen when you record a show, the good part is that you can edit everything and make things smooth. But everything that goes wrong on live television sticks there and the bigger the show the more horrible the consequences and the embarrassment.

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There’s just no way of predicting everything that could go wrong so all you can do is to hope for the best and prepare for the things you know can happen. In the history of television, you can find countless such moments but some are just way worse than most of them and they still make us cringe even years after the events.

According to telegraph.co.uk, live television is a perennial minefield. No matter what advances are made technologically or how experienced the presenter, nothing can quite protect those involved from the unexpected – especially colossal human error.

You may have heard by now, but at last night’s Oscars, some sort of envelope sleight-of-hand/PricewaterhouseCoopers suicide mission/act of God meant that the wrong film was announced for Best Picture.

Show host Jimmy Kimmel and producers from the mistakenly-awarded film, La La Land, handled the situation with enough grace and class that it wasn’t as bad as it could have been but Moonlight’s richly-deserved moment still lost its shine.

It was quite a 2015 for Olly Murs, the nation’s favorite cheeky chappy. Having paused a roaring music career to return to his spiritual base, X Factor, as co-host with Caroline Flack, Murs had a difficult first (and only) series. Initially, there were the poor reviews, then came a regretful decision to rule out sexual intercourse with Flack, and on top of it all, a sensational live TV error.

2015 was full of cultural highlights, but the year in television arguably peaked in February with one glorious error during Eastenders’  week of live shows.

In 2006, business school graduate Guy Goma arrived at the BBC headquarters to interview for a job in the corporation’s IT department. Here’s the grilling he received instead:

As Goma waited in reception, a producer from BBC News 24 came looking for technology journalist Guy Kewney, who was due to discuss the naming rights case between Apple Corps and Apple Computer. Unaware there could be two Guys in the same room, the receptionist gestured towards Goma, who was promptly marched to a studio to speak live on air about a subject he knew nothing of. To make things worse, Goma didn’t get the IT job either.

BBC World News presenter Jonathan Charles received a Ron Burgundy-style lesson in the importance of punctuation in 2009. Either that or it was the most extraordinary plea for help a hostage has ever given.

The above presenters should take solace – it could be worse. Rather than tripping over a teleprompter or cue card, Norwich’s finest disc jockey and chat show host misfired with an actual gun on his show once.