The Sydney Morning Herald’s Spike column reports on a blooper by 2GB breakfast host, Alan Jones, on the Today show.
The fallout from the Alan Jones on-air gaffe on Friday morning was still being felt around Channel Nine’s corridors at the weekend, after a blooper on the Today show exposed the frayed end of the radio supremo’s fuse. About 25 seconds into his daily two-minute rant, Jones stumbled over his words, pulled out of a sentence and spat out an irritated "Jesus Christ!" The screen soon went black, moved to an ad break, then finally returned to regular programming without any sound. A Willoughby mole told Spike there were groups clustered around monitors, chuckling at the boo-boo and waiting for rivers of blood to flow, but Today’s boss, Darren Wick, said Jones had handled the indignity remarkably well. "He records [his spot] at 5.30am and he usually does it in one take. But the first one stuffed up this time … The young tape operator got muddled up with the tapes. I spoke to Alan after the show and he was refreshingly good about it. He asked for the tape operator’s name and called him and gave him a pep talk, like a football coach. It’s a side to Alan Jones that I hadn’t seen and I’m really impressed by it." We tried to contact Jones, but he was away for the weekend.
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