Local elections 2022: Huw Edwards admits to having 'a little bit of croissant' during live BBC broadcast
The veteran broadcaster made the on-air confession while presenting the BBC’s 2022 local election coverage.
He said: “I’m going to admit to you I’ve just had a little bit of croissant. So I’m just finishing it and I’m ashamed to say that but there you go. It’s 20 to six in the morning…”
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Last year the 60-year-old Welsh journalist and presenter anchored the BBC’s coverage of the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral in April.
In 2017 a technical fault led to him being shown sitting in silence at the start of the BBC News At Ten.
Viewers on some devices saw Edwards seemingly unaware the cameras were rolling for a few minutes as he wrote notes and looked down at a screen.
After the broadcast, Edwards tweeted a photograph of a can of ale along with the words: “I think I’m going to enjoy this little beauty after that Ten. Iechyd da!”
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Hide AdEarlier this year, Good Morning Britain’s Laura Tobin showed viewers she was eating chicken nuggets for breakfast and also spilt her drink on air having overslept following a late night after the programme won a charity news quiz.
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