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‘Live From London’: News Anchor Caught Flipping The Bird On Air

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BBC host Maryam Moshiri was caught on camera flipping the bird ahead of her noon newscast Wednesday, and footage of the incident is going viral on social media.

“I’m so sorry it went out on air! It was not my intention for this to happen and I’m sorry if I offended or upset anyone. I wasn’t ’flipping the bird’ at viewers or even a person really,” Moshiri tweeted.

Moshiri appeared on screen displaying the gesture after the BBC countdown ended at zero. The “chief presenter” smirked widely before she regained composure and realized she was live. (RELATED: News Anchor Goes Viral After Viewers Claim She Went Commando, Flashed The Whole Country)

“Live from London, this is BBC News,” Moshiri said, introducing her regularly scheduled program, “Prime Minister’s Questions.”

Moshiri insisted Thursday the viral moment was part of a “private joke” between herself and the behind-the-scenes team. (RELATED: News Anchor Collapses On Red Carpet Following White House Correspondents Dinner)

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“I was pretending to count down as the director was counting from 10-0.. including the fingers to show the number. So from 10 fingers held up to one,” Moshiri wrote on Twitter. “When we go to 1 I turned finger around as a joke and did not realize that this would be caught on camera.”

The embarrassed anchor apologized for the incident, which did not go unnoticed by social media users.

“We’ve all done it Maryam… (well, I have anyway). Thanks for giving us a good laugh,” Piers Morgan tweeted.

“We had to check this wasn’t a parody. How stupid do the BBC think we are?” an anti-BBC account wrote.

“Looks like someone had to make it to work without their morning coffee,” another commenter wrote.

DID SHE GO TOO FAR?