Sky News reporter is interrupted by a swearing teenager
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Sky News reporter is interrupted by a swearing teenager
A presenter's live report was torpedoed by a thug shouting 'f*** the feds' Thursday night, before he returned to the journalist to apologise after his mother told him off.
In the midst of a report on the resignation of Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick earlier in the day, Sky News Political Correspondent Kate McCann was cut off mid-sentence by the unidentified person.
Just as Ms McCann was asked a question by presenter Gillian Joseph from the Sky News studio about the next steps for the commissioner, a man's voice could be heard behind the correspondent, who was standing outdoors in London.Despite the interruption, and a hand also being waved behind her, Ms McCann professionally persevered with her report.
'Dame Cressida Dick has said that she will stay on for the next couple of weeks...,' the correspondent began, but was then interrupted when the man went a step further, jumping between her and the camera.
On live TV, the man was shown sticking both his middle fingers up - straight down the lens of the camera - and shouting 'f*** the feds', among other expletives.
While Ms McCann tried to continue, she had no choice but to pause her report.Looking at the back of the man's head, the exasperated reporter could be heard saying 'OK', before Sky News cut back to the studio.
'We're going to leave Kate there,' Ms Joseph said after the feed and audio was cut. 'We must apologise for anything offensive you may have seen on screen,' she added.
After the incident, Ms McCann took to twitter to apologise for the language.
o sorry if you heard some fairly choice language on air just now,' she wrote to her followers at 10:20pm.
'(A) group of (mostly really lovely) young guys on bikes were watching us set up for the live but sadly one guy decided to ruin our hit.
'His mates looked as annoyed as we felt. It’s been a bit of a night,' she added.
Around five minutes later, she posted again to say that the person who had interrupted her broadcast had come over to apologise to her and the crew.
'And right on cue the guy who shouted on air just cycled back to apologise for his behaviour and shake my hand. Still sorry it happened but at least we all learnt something. His Mum called to tell him off too,' she wrote.
A presenter's live report was torpedoed by a thug shouting 'f*** the feds' Thursday night, before he returned to the journalist to apologise after his mother told him off.
In the midst of a report on the resignation of Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick earlier in the day, Sky News Political Correspondent Kate McCann was cut off mid-sentence by the unidentified person.
Just as Ms McCann was asked a question by presenter Gillian Joseph from the Sky News studio about the next steps for the commissioner, a man's voice could be heard behind the correspondent, who was standing outdoors in London.Despite the interruption, and a hand also being waved behind her, Ms McCann professionally persevered with her report.
'Dame Cressida Dick has said that she will stay on for the next couple of weeks...,' the correspondent began, but was then interrupted when the man went a step further, jumping between her and the camera.
On live TV, the man was shown sticking both his middle fingers up - straight down the lens of the camera - and shouting 'f*** the feds', among other expletives.
While Ms McCann tried to continue, she had no choice but to pause her report.Looking at the back of the man's head, the exasperated reporter could be heard saying 'OK', before Sky News cut back to the studio.
'We're going to leave Kate there,' Ms Joseph said after the feed and audio was cut. 'We must apologise for anything offensive you may have seen on screen,' she added.
After the incident, Ms McCann took to twitter to apologise for the language.
o sorry if you heard some fairly choice language on air just now,' she wrote to her followers at 10:20pm.
'(A) group of (mostly really lovely) young guys on bikes were watching us set up for the live but sadly one guy decided to ruin our hit.
'His mates looked as annoyed as we felt. It’s been a bit of a night,' she added.
Around five minutes later, she posted again to say that the person who had interrupted her broadcast had come over to apologise to her and the crew.
'And right on cue the guy who shouted on air just cycled back to apologise for his behaviour and shake my hand. Still sorry it happened but at least we all learnt something. His Mum called to tell him off too,' she wrote.