A BBC News presenter was left red faced after accidentally making a racy-sounding question live on-air as he gave a report on potholes. Peter Levy presented BBC Look North on Thursday as he asked viewers to get in touch about potholes in their area by sending in pictures of them.
The host said he would personally look through them and pick out some of the worst ones.
He then said he would send someone to fix the damage before asking the seemingly raunchy question that left him in hysterics.
He said on air: “We’re already being contacted by viewers watching the programme, but we want to know how bad it is where you are. How big is your hole?”
Levy, seemingly realising how inappropriate the question may have sounded, began laughing as he tried to gather himself to continue the report.
The clip then cut to a man lying in a pothole. Keen to move on and clarify his point, Peter continued: “If you can tweet me a picture, that would be good as well. The biggest potholes, we’ll be having some on the programme.”
The funny moment didn’t go unnoticed as one person wrote on social media platform X: “The person monitoring that inbox is about to get some unexpected mail, I imagine.”
A second chimed in: “Tell you what, he did very well not to lose it there.” Someone else stated: “Every week Look North gives us all a better reason to keep local programming alive.” A fourth penned: “A great start to the new year.”
