It was 10 seconds until the midday news bulletin aired on the BBC. The host Maryam Moshiri He simulated the countdown and, as a joke with his classmates, raised his middle finger while raising his eyebrows and gesticulating jokingly at the camera.
The news program started like this, with the presenter ‘stretching the bird’, as they say in the British Isles. Or what is the same, ‘giving the finger’ to the spectators who were left speechless: until the presenter realized that they were on the air and she announced very seriously: “Live from London, this is the BBC news…”.
The rabbit went unnoticed for hours, but Someone leaked the clip and the finger went viral on the networks and went around the world. The BBC opened an internal investigation and producer Robert Coxwell vengefully warned: “Someone’s Christmas holidays are going to come early.”
The commotion reached such a point that the presenter was forced to apologize on her X account: “Hello everyone. Yesterday, just before the news program, I was joking with the team in the studio. I pretended to count to 10 with everyone fingers until I reached one, without realizing at that moment that it would be caught on camera.
“It was a private joke, and I am very sorry that it was broadcast,” Moshiri added. “It was not my intention and I apologize. I didn’t want to ‘stretch the bird’ to the viewers. “It was a silly joke for my classmates.” With her hyper-professional face, Moshiri immediately moved on to recount the appearance of the former premier Boris Johnson in the face of the Covid investigation, which has fueled the speculation of the possible recipient of the shameless finger, as the Romans called it. There was also a rumor that the finger was intended for the prime minister. Rishi Sunak already their plans to deport immigrants pending asylum application to Rwanda, the second news of the day.