BBC Breakfast star Ben Thompson halts show to 'call out' Jon Kay live on air

This is the awkward moment a BBC Breakfast host was called out by Ben Thompson live on air after a US election snub. BBC star Jon Kay was dialling in via video link back into the studio, where he reported into Ben and Sally Nugent.

Jon, who typically hosts the BBC show each Monday to Wednesday from 6am til 9.30am, was awkwardly called out by colleague Ben live on air after a US election snub. Jon was seen in Washington, as the US goes to the polls on Tuesday (November 4).

While chatting, Jon forgot to include Ben's name and said: "They may not celebrate or mark Guy Fawkes Night here in America but expect fireworks this fifth of November. Back to Sally." Sally replied: "Yeah, we will, John, thank you you very much indeed. What a fantastic setting as well."

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Ben fumed: "I'm here too John, hi, good morning." Sally said: "Oh yeah. No, it's all about me, he's missing me, he's not missing you." With the exception of Alaska and Hawaii, all states have now begun voting including the seven all-important "swing states" of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

The seven battleground states have varying rules on when votes are counted, so it is expected to take some time before they are tallied in the key states that are expected to decide the razor-tight race.

“We’re going to be patient,” Kamala Harris campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon said during a Tuesday appearance on MSNBC. “We’re going to be very focused on what’s happening in the early part of the night. But we know some of our bigger battleground states are not going to be fully tallied until later in the night or early in the morning.”

O’Malley Dillon was hopeful that early turnout in Georgia and North Carolina was a positive sign for the Harris campaign. By the time early voting in North Carolina had ended on Saturday, over 4.4 million voters — or nearly 57% of all registered voters in the state — had cast their ballots.