What was the single most ‘car crash tv’ moment on UK television screens?

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1. I remember watching the late movie on BBC1 when Martyn Lewis appreated and told us that Diana had been in a car crash in Paris but she was ok. Then they went back to the movie and he reappeared about five minutes later and said she was dead.

   I know that’s not what you meant but it was certainly car crash TV.

2. Probably Guy Goma appearing live on the BBC News after they got him mixed up with another chap called Guy Kewney who was supposed to be interviewed. Poor bloke was only there for a job interview not a TV one and the bloke who was supposed to be interviewed was left at BBC reception watching it all unfold on the TV.

   [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6Y2uQn_wvc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6Y2uQn_wvc)

   Edit: Added more info

3. When everyone thought David Guest was dead on Big Brother when he was in fact just taking a nap

4. Prince Andrew noncevision

5. “Sososososo there’s a problem, with, the sweating. See, I have a medical condition which means that, that, that I can’t sweat…wait, I *couldn’t* sweat…hang on, is that right? Yeah, I *couldn’t* sweat, as I suffered what you could call an adrenaline rush in the Falklands War when I was shot at, and as a result, it was, it was, it was simply impossible for me to sweat. And it’s only, as a result of certain things that, I have finally regained the ability, to sweat.”

6. Changing rooms. Tea pots.

7. Katie Price’s Son Harvey on Loose Women. Hello you c*nt

8. A man trying to explain how he didn’t sweat and enjoyed dining out on pizza in Woking of all places.

9. I can’t do justice with words alone to the absolute horror show that was the 1989 Brit Awards. It was (I think) the last one that went out live, and was presented by Mick Fleetwood and Sam Fox. Both apparently trying to out do the other for incompetence, and both winning.

10. Richard madley in most things but his Ali G impression was borderline unwatchable

11. A BBC light entertainment show where Bobby Davro has his head in stocks and falls over face first on stage. Jim Bowen, Keith Chegwin & Lionel Blair, who are singing Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life, look on in horror. The clip is now used by the BBC in health & safety courses.

12. George Galloway being a cat on Big Brother.

    I just can’t …. unsee that….

    Having. Pete Burns on the same show just made it even more surreal somehow….

13. Jarvis flashing his ass as Michael Jackson performed at the Brits.

14. Michael Fish 1987, “there is no hurricane coming but it will be very windy in Spain”

15. Enjoy the money, I hope it makes you very happy. Dear lord, what a sad little life Jane.

16. Richard Hammond trying to drive a rocket car

17. When that bird kept getting given the bush tucker trials on I’m A Celeb, and then faked passing out. I fucking cringed so hard.

18. That time a guy was being interviewed at home on BBC and his kids barge in, followed by his wife (I said nanny first, I thought I remembered that) So funny.

    https://youtu.be/Mh4f9AYRCZY

19. James May in that yellow Mitsubishi Evo during Scandi flick.

20. when philip schofield came out as gay, via holly willoughby…he just kind of sat there whilst she read his statement out. i found it very bizarre.

21. Some lass that supposedly banged David Beckham wanking off a pig.

22. Matt Hancock fake crying during covid

23. Madonna getting yanked down the stairs on the stage by her ridiculous cape has to be up there somewhere.

24. Tommy Cooper dying and people thinking it was a joke

25. Dancing on ice years ago when Tod Mcarthy ( I think) lost all balance, skated, slipped, off the rink back into the tunnel where he came from arms n legs flailing like a drunken bambi it was hilarious

26. I found it particularly cringy during a strictly come dancing where Anton Du Beke had dressed up as Austin Powers, Craig Revel Horwood made a comment along the lines of ‘and you’ve got the fake dodgy teeth and everything’ and Anton was like, ‘no I don’t, these are my real teeth’

27. Those of us of a certain age will have a good memory of the phrase ‘Five Star are fucking shit’.

    And they were.

28. Christmas Top of the Pops when Rage Against the Machine lied about not using naughty words

29. Piers Morgan walking out of the ITV studio after being called out on his obsession with Megan markle.

30. Roxanne Pallett falsely accusing Ryan Thomas of punching her whilst on Celebrity Big Brother.

    If you’re going to falsely accuse someone of assault, don’t do it in house full of cameras, on a show that millions of people are going to watch.

31. “Shilpa poppadom”

    Not the best one here, but it’s a classic.

32. Nevermind the buzzcocks when Simon Amstell wound Preston up so much about Chantelle’s book he walked off stage, they then got an audience member to be Preston.

33. This is easy.

    The guy on embarrassing bodies who went to the doctor because he ‘smelled bad’ and couldn’t figure out why.

    It turns out he wasn’t wiping his arse properly.

34. Years back on the Jeremy Kyle show there was a gay couple on it who noticed a few similarities to each other

    Both were adopted at or near birth (I don’t remember which). Either way, they got worried after other people commented on how similar they looked too. So instead of doing a private DNA test for maybe £100(?) they decided to go onto national TV

    After the usual 5-10 minutes of shite being emitted from Jeremy Kyle’s mouth he gave the results, and you’ve probably guessed it… they *are* biological brothers

    They were obviously devastated and as usual with that shit show they stayed on the lingering shots of the two brothers’ lives falling apart on national TV. I properly cringed when that happened, even though I wasn’t particularly empathetic to people who went on Jeremy Kyle to air their dirty laundry in such a public way