BBC Morning Live presenter Gethin Jones was forced to interrupt a segment that aired on Thursday, November 17 to apologise to viewers. The Welsh host was discussing the health headlines with Dr Oscar Duke when the medical expert dropped a swear word into conversation.
The guest was there to sort fact from fiction. "So first up, junk food is as harmful as cigarettes... I mean that's quite shocking," Gethin's co-presenter Samantha Quek said.
Oscar then explained that ultra-processed foods have an addictive nature like cigarettes and alcohol, before sharing that he recently ate four doughnuts in one sitting. Bizarrely, the conversation then moved onto the popular BBC sitcom Gavin & Stacey.
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Gethin said: "You like a doughnut for your travel snack but we know you go home and just like Gwen from Gavin and Stacey, you love an omelette, don't you?"
He continued: "So you put the omelette in a non-stick pan, but are you thinking twice now because of this headline which involves the release of micro-plastics from that pan?"
"Yes, I'll tell you for why," Oscar replied in a Welsh accent as he mimicked the show's characters. "I think Gregg Wallace and all our friends at MasterChef, they'd be pretty p*****d off if I came over and..."
"Ooh, you can't say that," Gethin interrupted. "Apologies for that language, he's getting carried away!"
Signalling Oscar to continue, Gethin added: "They would be a bit annoyed with you, I think is what you were trying to say, carry on."
"If I used a metal utensil to scrape off that non-stick surface," Oscar continued. "There's been some research in Australia that's found that millions of micro-particles are put into food. That research though does not say that there's any particular health impact of that."
Gethin then laughed: "In two years of Morning Live this is the most nervous I've ever been doing an item. Thank you, Doctor Oscar, we'll let you go and wash your mouth out now." For more showbiz and television stories get our newsletter here.
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