--- title: Natasha Exelby: Fellow Presenters Confess to On-Air Bloopers description: An Australian TV news anchor's on-air gaffe has prompted a flurry of confessions from fellow media professionals canonical: https://time.com/4734146/australia-news-blooper-natasha-exelby/ author: Joseph Hincks article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-11T08:05:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:42:41.918Z og:title: News Anchors Confess to Their Embarrassing On-Air Bloopers og:description: After the hilarious reaction of ABC News presenter Natasha Exelby went viral og:url: https://time.com/4734146/australia-news-blooper-natasha-exelby/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: News Anchors Confess to Their Embarrassing On-Air Bloopers twitter:description: After the hilarious reaction of ABC News presenter Natasha Exelby went viral twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # News Anchors Are Confessing to Their Most Embarrassing On-Air Bloopers in Solidarity with a Presenter by [Joseph Hincks](https://time.com/author/joseph-hincks/) ## Joseph Hincks Apr 11, 2017 8:05 AM UTC by [Joseph Hincks](https://time.com/author/joseph-hincks/) ## Joseph Hincks Apr 11, 2017 8:05 AM UTC An Australian TV news anchor’s on-air gaffe has prompted a flurry of confessions from fellow media professionals, who are tweeting about their own cringe-worthy onscreen moments in solidarity with the presenter, News.com.au [reports](http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/tv-shows/tv-presenters-tweet-solidarity-with-natasha-exelby-as-abc-cops-backlash-over-axing-newsreader/news-story/6ba5acadbd7543c0a59c8ff4cb9f6ece). In a viral clip that aired Sunday, ABC News presenter Natasha Exelby was caught fiddling with her pen unaware that she was live and had missed her cue. Her eyes drift upward toward the camera before widening in sudden cognition that she’s on air as she gasps: “now to sport.” The outpouring of support — under the hashtag [#PutYourBloopersOut ](https://twitter.com/hashtag/putyourbloopersout?src=hash)— was prompted by reports that ABC News 24 had banned Exelby from any future on-air role. Although it later turned out the presenter [hadn’t gotten the axe](http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/media/abc24-newsreader-natasha-exelby-axed-from-onair-duties-after-blooper/news-story/d1a2aed9f455b6b5f35b0045b784dec8), the confessionals still make for good reading. Among them Tracey Spicer, a former presenter on Australia’s Channel 10 tweeted, “I fainted twice and said ‘f–k’ once.” Other presenters’ admissions include mistakenly declaring minor celebrities dead, an array of Freudian slips, and prefixing _To Kill a Mockingbird_ author Harper Lee as “the infamous.” > [](https://twitter.com/ShellyHorton1/status/851392962948808704) > [](https://twitter.com/BenFordham/status/851403481118261249) > [](https://twitter.com/Spoonyman/status/851361645334896641) > [](https://twitter.com/JessKlaj/status/851417827286204416) > [](https://twitter.com/JessBennettTas/status/851671034759569413) > [](https://twitter.com/Hilary%5FBarry/status/851650993678831616) \[[News.com.au](http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/tv-shows/tv-presenters-tweet-solidarity-with-natasha-exelby-as-abc-cops-backlash-over-axing-newsreader/news-story/6ba5acadbd7543c0a59c8ff4cb9f6ece)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4734146/australia-news-blooper-natasha-exelby/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4734146/australia-news-blooper-natasha-exelby/"},"headline":"News Anchors Are Confessing to Their Most Embarrassing On-Air Bloopers in Solidarity with a Presenter","datePublished":"2017-04-11T08:05:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:42:41.918Z","description":"After the reaction of ABC News presenter Natasha Exelby went viral","url":"https://time.com/4734146/australia-news-blooper-natasha-exelby/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Social Media","Australia","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Joseph Hincks","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/joseph-hincks/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4734146/australia-news-blooper-natasha-exelby/","name":"News Anchors Are Confessing to Their Most Embarrassing On-Air Bloopers in Solidarity with a Presenter"}}]}] ```