We’ve all been there.
Nicely, if not at Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral, at the least within the awkward place of struggling for somebody’s title.
Channel 9 presenters (and veteran reporters) Peter Overton and Tracy Grimshaw struggled to position the UK prime minister as she – together with about 500 heads of state and dignitaries – filed into Westminster Abbey for the Queen’s funeral.
As Liz Truss and husband, Hugh O’Leary, headed inside, Grimshaw requested: “Who’s this?”
“Onerous to establish,” Overton replied. “Possibly, uh, minor royals … I can’t establish them at this level.”
“We are able to’t spot everybody,” Grimshaw stated.
To be honest, the Queen solely appointed Truss two days earlier than she died.
The Aussies weren’t alone in failing to completely match names to faces in the course of the ceremony. Some watching the BBC’s protection speculated that UK presenters on the nationwide broadcaster didn’t know who the Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, was.
Reasonably than guess, although, the BBC presenters let the silence converse for itself.
“It’s clear the commentators do not know who he’s,” writer Jane Caro tweeted as Albanese and his accomplice, Jodie Haydon, entered the constructing.