Tens of millions are wishing one young girl a completely happy birthday after her ruined surprise party went viral on British social media.
A BBC meteorologist made an accidental on-air gaffe Friday when she revealed that her family was planning a surprise party for her niece.
The blunder occurred when weather forecaster Kawser Quamer was asked by host Annabel Tiffin at the top of the printed if she had any plans lined up for the weekend.
“What have you ever got for the weekend, anything exciting,” Tiffin, 55, asked at the top of this system which broadcasts to the UK’s Northwest region.
“My niece’s surprise party,” Quamer, 44, responds immediately without considering.
That’s lovely,” Tiffin responds before adding, “Not a surprise if she’s watching this!”
Realizing what her co-worker meant, Quamer clapped her hands to her mouth in shock.
“Goodness me. I’ve spoilt it,” she shrieked before waving her hand up and down and telling viewers to “shhh!”
The accident has since gone viral online.
“Don’t worry @KawserQuamer there’s only several hundred thousand watching live to tell the tale TV and tens of millions more have seen it here on X,” the network posted on X (formerly Twitter).
“We do have to know whether the party went OK! I don’t think I’ve laughed a lot in ages, bless you Kawser,” laughed a second user.
“We were watching it last night. Gave us an amazing hoot. Styled it out well. Completely satisfied birthday to your niece,” a 3rd user said.
“I’ve watched this multiple times now. It gets funnier each time,” posted one other user.
This shouldn’t be the primary time a BBC anchor has gone viral for an on-air snafu.
In December 2023, Maryam Moshiri went viral after the anchor was caught giving the center finger right on the live camera in a now-viral clip.
The incident happened right as Moshiri was set to deliver the noontime news.
As the normal BBC countdown descended to zero, the screen transitioned to Moshiri together with her head tilted, eyes wide open, bearing a big smirk and displaying the unmistakable gesture.
It took Moshiri a millisecond to comprehend what had happened before starting her segment.
Moshiri said Thursday she was only joking around with the team behind the camera and it was meant to be a non-public joke, and wasn’t intended to cause any harm.
“I used to be pretending to count down because the director was counting me down from 10-0 including the fingers to point out the number. So from 10 fingers held up to 1,” she said in a post to X. “Once we got to 1 I turned my finger around as a joke and didn’t realize that this is able to be caught on camera.”
Moshiri apologized for the incident, saying, “I’m so sorry it went out on air! It was not my intention for this to occur and I’m sorry if I offended or upset anyone. I wasn’t ‘flipping the bird’ at viewers and even an individual really.”