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"The perils of live TV!" he later joked on Twitter.
“This has been like no story I’ve done before. At work we live and breathe it, there’s no escape whatsoever," she said.
He meant Theresa May, of course, but the mistake did not go unnoticed.
The BBC newsreader has brought his wry sense of humour to the news again.
"Simon McCoy never fails to make me smile," one viewer tweeted.
After The Andrew Neil Show was axed over the summer, he'll front a new show for broadcaster GB News.
The corporation's head of news Fran Unsworth claimed news will be “in the digital space".
The word aired uncensored during a report about a racist attack last week.
The BBC said it “accepted this has caused offence” but said it was “editorially justified given the context”.
The BBC newsreader was first diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2014.