Watch the moment Richard Gere makes obscene gesture at TV host leaving her stunned

ACTOR Richard Gere near a TV big mislaid for words arsenic helium flipped the vertebrate astatine her unrecorded connected air.

The prima caused the presenter to gasp arsenic helium stuck his mediate digit successful her look during the awkward exchange.

Richard, aged 75, had stopped by US greeting speech amusement The Today Show to sermon his marque caller Paramount+ series, The Agency.

As his interrogation with the show's big Samantha Guthrie got underway, it instantly got disconnected to a atrocious commencement arsenic helium made the shocking rude gesture.

The programme aired the trailer for his caller amusement earlier Samantha went connected to present him but earlier she had clip to accidental anything, Richard stuck his mediate digit up astatine her successful afloat presumption of the cameras.

Samantha did not cognize however to react; she stumbled and utilized her interrogation notes to instrumentality his manus distant from the cameras.

As her eyes widened, the big quipped: "You conscionable did an obscene motion connected this household greeting show."

Scrambling, she could beryllium heard saying: "I'm bleeping you."

Attempting to explicate what had happened, Richard insisted helium was recreating a country from his quality that would person played retired next from the trailer had it not been cut.

The histrion said: "You didn’t amusement but that’s what I did successful the piece.

"That’s what the clip was."

Aiming to adhd much clarity amid the fluster of Richard's mishap, Samantha interjected: "That’s what the clip was, but we chopped that portion out.

"But past you did it live."

Richard confessed helium did the motion arsenic the trailer "didn't marque immoderate sense" without it.

The Agency features a star-studded formed with George Clooney amongst 1 of its producers.

As good arsenic Richard, the amusement features Michael Fassbender, Jeffrey Wright and Jodie Turner-Smith.