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The biggest live TV blunders of 2019

Anything can happen on live TV, and 2019 proved just that as this year brought produced some unfortunate, albeit amusing, on air gaffes.

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Gemma Collins, who famously fell through a stage at the Radio 1 Teen Awards in 2017, was back on form in Dancing on Ice where she accidentally took a tumble during one of her routines before bravely soldiering on.

As is so often the case, news readers are the ones on the front lines when it comes to TV mistakes, with this year seeing several rogue children get in the way of a broadcast.

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Elsewhere Victoria Derbyshire made an unfortunate mistake by mispronouncing Jeremy Hunt's last name, before immediately apologising for the gaffe. We've all been there.