{"id":89016,"date":"2026-07-23T17:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T17:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/89016\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T17:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T17:31:11","slug":"good-morning-britain-star-caught-yawning-live-on-air-after-unexpected-tech-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/89016\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Morning Britain star caught yawning live on air after unexpected tech issue"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Good Morning Britain<\/a> presenter suffered an embarrassing on-air mishap when he didn’t realise the cameras were rolling due to a technical issue.<\/p>\n

Thursday morning’s episode saw Richard Madeley and Kate Garraway hosting the breakfast news programme, with the pair discussing the main headlines of the day.<\/p>\n

During a segment about a “tragic incident” on the Essex coast<\/a> on Wednesday night \u2013 where it was later announced that a teenage girl and woman in her 40s had died \u2013 the presenters attempted to cut to reporter Jay Akbar, who was presenting live from the scene.<\/p>\n

“Jay Akbar, can you give us the latest?” Madeley said, with Akbar, who was stood at West Mersea beach near Colchester<\/a>, clearly unaware that he was on air and unable to hear the anchor.<\/p>\n

\"Akbar<\/p>\n

Akbar was caught mid-yawn due to a technical issue (ITV)<\/p>\n

Instead, he stared blankly into the camera, before turning his head to audibly yawn. Apologising on Akbar’s behalf, Madeley said: “Oh I’m sorry, he’s obviously got comms issues there. We will try again later.”<\/p>\n

The pair were more successful when they returned to Akbar minutes later, with Madeley saying: “Our reporter, as we saw, is there, hopefully we’ve got our communications back. Akbar was then able to present the segment without issue.<\/p>\n

ITV’s flagship news show, which airs from 6am to 9am on weekdays, found itself at the centre of another awkward on-air moment earlier this week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Madeley<\/p>\n

Madeley and Garraway presented Thursday’s GMB (ITV)<\/p>\n

During Wednesday morning’s episode, Reform UK MP Robert Jenrick was overheard calling his early morning interview with Ed Balls and Susanna Reid on the show “a waste of time”.<\/p>\n

Appearing via video call to discuss the scandal surrounding Reform leader Nigel Farage’s \u00a35 million gift from Thailand-based billionaire Christopher Harborne<\/a>, Jenrick ended the interview and, not realising his microphone was still on, could be heard saying: “That was a waste of time.”<\/p>\n

After a couple of seconds of silence, Balls retorted: “I think it wasn’t a waste of time. Robert Jenrick gave us very clear answers on the police investigation; it’s not a waste of time for him to make clear that he believes there’s no police investigation. It was good he came on the programme.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Good Morning Britain presenter suffered an embarrassing on-air mishap when he didn’t realise the cameras were rolling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,335,38366,1989,3742,28088],"class_list":["post-89016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-britain","tag-britain","tag-itv","tag-jay-akbar","tag-kate-garraway","tag-richard-madeley","tag-technical-issue"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116970486770000745","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}