An unfortunate mistake left BBC viewers chuckling after Gary Lineker’s name was spelled incorrectly on a broadcast.
While the football presenter was being interviewed in Manchester, his name was written as “Gary Linekar”.
It comes as Mr Lineker this morning issued a brutal farewell message to former Home Secretary Suella Braverman, who has been replaced by James Cleverly, while former PM David Cameron has in-turn replaced him.
The typo is not the first mistake of its kind made by the Beebs – and misspellings are an issue that have plagued news broadcasters and other companies alike in recent years.
The nation’s public broadcaster came under fire last summer for making multiple unfortunate spelling mistakes during a weather forecast.
Multiple major cities found themselves with an “S” missing.
As a result Belfast became “Belfat”, Glasgow became “Glagow” and Newcastle became “Newcatle”.
Belfast was even misspelled in the same way for a second time later in the same broadcast.
While ITV’s Good Morning Britain had a period of having so many errors on the show that star presenter Susanna Reid even reportedly had a talk with bosses about fixing the embarrassing problem.
The show’s news correspondent Ben Chapman found his name appearing as “Ben Champan”, and when reporting on the death of Lisa Marie Presley, a typo appeared in the word “remembering” with the graphic reading: “Remebering.”
Wrong dates were also shown for multiple other segments.
However, such mistakes were not quite as ironically unfortunate as that made in an advert for Skelton Court care home in Middlesborough.
The care home was wrongly named “Skeleton Court,” prompting operator Anchor to say the poster would be “removed as soon as possible” and that it was “looking into how it happened”.
It was spotted by Twitter user Nick Wesson who joked it was a “bold choice of name considering the age of many residents”.
