Vernon Kay has opened up about an unlucky second on The One Present that left him and co-host Alex Jones feeling red-faced
Vernon Kay opened up a couple of hidden wrestle with Alex Jones (Picture: BBC)
Vernon Kay has addressed a “horrendous” hidden wrestle as he introduced The One Present. The 51-year-old introduced the present on Wednesday alongside common host Alex Jones.
The journal present is introduced stay on BBC One from 7pm on weekdays. And the programme being a stay present does pose some issues for the presenter. Vernon says that he and Alex confronted an unlucky second after his abdomen started gurgling simply earlier than they had been set to on display screen. It got here as presenter Matt Allwright ready to wrap up the Watchdog section of the present.
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Vernon mentioned an ungainly second on The One Present (Picture: Getty)
Chatting with Ellie Brennan on BBC Radio 2, Vernon mentioned: “Did you watch The One Present final night time? Did you discover that Alex and I had the giggles? Simply out the again of Watchdog.
“They take it very critically, very critically at The One Present. It’s a shopper rights programme so it’s very critical, and my tummy, as a result of I hadn’t eaten lunch, determined to pop up and say good day.
“So Alex and I had been sat on the couch, Matthew Allwright is nearly to wrap up a really critical and essential Watchdog and my tummy says, [grumbling noise] and Alex turned to me, and I turned to Alex on the identical time, and that was it, each of us straightaway, gone, laughing, shoulders trembling, shuddering, as we launched a extremely vital movie about evacuees from World Conflict II who had gone as much as Glossop.
“They had been like, ‘Straight face’. I’m like, ‘No, you’ve ruined it now. You may’t say behave your self if you’ve bought the giggles as a result of it makes it worse’.
Vernon introduced The One Present with Alex (Picture: Getty)
“I actually, and it’s the primary time in I’d say 25 years, since I used to be working with June Sarpong, that I’ve carried out a stay tv hyperlink biting my lip to attempt cease myself laughing as I’m introducing one thing actually, actually critical. It was horrendous.”
Vernon went on to say Alex is “used to it” now. It will seem the pair additionally managed to cover their laughter from viewers of the present.
Dad-of-two Vernon launched his tv profession over 25 years in the past when he joined the youth-oriented present T4 on Channel 4. The programme helped launch the careers of a bunch of well-known faces together with Dermot O’Leary, Alexa Chung and Miquita Oliver.
Vernon subsequently joined BBC Radio 1 in addition to presenting a string of TV exhibits resembling Household Fortunes and Vernon Kay’s Gameshow Marathon. He left BBC radio in 2014, solely to return 9 years later as a stand-in for Rylan Clark.
Vernon finally landed the mid-morning present in 2023, changing legendary presenter Ken Bruce. He lately voiced his delight at nonetheless being employed by the broadcaster.
He mentioned: “We have got the great , the wonderful Janice, Janine, and there she is….and….what’s her title…Jennifer, joyful Jennifer. We have got Janice Janine and Jen, who I’ve recognized for a really, very very long time, since we had been at Radio 1, 10…5…three years in the past, it was a very long time.
“To be trustworthy, Jennifer and I are nonetheless joyful that we’re employed. Contemplating the very low bar that we raised ourselves once we began our careers in broadcasting, we have carried out very well Jennifer.”
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