A BBC presenter turned the airwaves blue today by pronouncing the surname of Cabinet minister Jeremy Hunt as 'C***'.
Justin Webb made the embarrassing error while reading out a newspaper story about the Health Secretary on on BBC Radio 4's flagship Today programme.
Listeners heard him say: 'The paper says that Health Secretary Jeremy C*** - Hunt is understood to favour a cap on social care.'
The blunder came as Justin Webb read out a newspaper story about Jeremy Hunt (pictured on the BBC's Andrew Marr show yesterday)
Webb claimed he had 'swerved' the verbal slip, but
listeners were in no doubt about what they had heard
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Webb tried to head off the inevitable mockery by claiming he had 'swerved' away from pronouncing the full four-letter word.
However, listeners were convinced they had heard it.He was reading out a story from the
Daily Express News Today Express during the programme's review of newspapers and news websites.
It is not the first time a Today presenter has been embarrassed by the Health Secretary's name. James Naughtie made the error while Mr Hunt was culture secretary. Webb (pictured) tried to head off the inevitable mockery by
claiming he had 'swerved' away from pronouncing the full four-letter word
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