Yahoo News Radio 4 presenter's awkward slip of the tongue in Jeremy Hunt comment
A presenter on BBC Radio 4’s flagship Today programme has blundered by mispronouncing the surname of Cabinet minister Jeremy Hunt.
Justin Webb made the error while reading out a newspaper story about the Health and Social Care Secretary.
Listeners heard him say: “The paper says that Health Secretary Jeremy C*** … Hunt is understood to favour a cap on social care.”
Webb claimed he had “swerved” away from pronouncing the full four-letter word, but listeners were convinced they had heard it.
Important swerve 😳 https://t.co/RMawDv9hzG
— justin webb (@JustinOnWeb) June 25, 2018
You can form your own judgement from the clip below:
He was reading out a story from the Daily Express during the programme’s review of newspapers and news websites.
It is not the first time a Today presenter has been embarrassed by the Health Secretary’s name.
James Naughtie made the error while Mr Hunt was culture secretary.
