BBC Breakfast fans complain minutes into show as key element 'axed'

BBC Breakfast fans were near confused erstwhile a regular diagnostic connected the amusement appeared to beryllium missing.

BBC Breakfast viewers couldn’t assistance but kick minutes into the amusement arsenic an important constituent of the amusement seemed to person been “axed”.

Presenters Charlie Stayt and Naga Munchetty returned this morning, Saturday, February 8, to springiness the latest news, from a march against weapon transgression aft the decease of teen Harvey Willgoose, to Trump’s efforts to enactment thousands of USAid workers connected permission temporarily blocked.

While BBC Breakfast is renowned for its iconic mounting with its large reddish sofa astatine its heart, different cardinal diagnostic of the amusement is the reddish timepiece successful the bottommost right-hand corner.

However, erstwhile fans tuned into the programme astatine 6am, the timepiece was obscurity to beryllium seen and didn’t look for the archetypal hr and 15 minutes of the show.

This blunder didn’t spell unnoticed by viewers who rapidly took to X, formerly Twitter, to constituent retired it had gone missing.

“Apprentice Pete indispensable beryllium connected graphics today.. No clock..”, idiosyncratic wrote.

Another said: “No timepiece connected #BBCbreakfast contiguous but we did person immoderate #election results popular up for a moment.”

A 3rd stated: “I don't cognize ....they axed click ,now they person axed the timepiece ...what's adjacent the sofa”, with different writing: “Where’s the …”, followed by an alarm timepiece emoji.

Thankfully, it wasn’t excessively agelong earlier the timepiece erstwhile again appeared connected surface with a instrumentality commenting: “They've remembered to enactment the timepiece backmost on.”

Another added: “First Charlie and present Naga telling america the time! Welcome backmost [alarm timepiece emoji]”.

The method contented comes conscionable days aft different mishap connected Thursday, February 6, took place.

Talking astir the contented of children coping with grief, Charlie said: "The Prince of Wales has opened up to teenagers battling bereavement astir the achy acquisition of his mother, the precocious Princess Diana, dying erstwhile helium was conscionable 15 years old."

But arsenic a voiceover began to item the enactment of a charity, the camera remained connected Charlie and Naga who were welcoming their guests, lasting up from the sofa and shaking hands, oblivious that they were inactive live.

Thankfully, the occupation was rapidly corrected and the footage continued to beryllium shown but it didn’t spell unnoticed by viewers.

A instrumentality said: "Someone pressed the incorrect buttons and it ended up being beauteous wholesome presumption down the scenes."

Another commented: "Oops camera fail", with a 3rd joking: #BBCBreakfast Is Apprentice Pete connected the cameras this morning?"

BBC Breakfast continues each time astatine 6am connected BBC One and BBC iPlayer.