Ranvir Singh forgets guest Roger Black is still on video call in GMB blunder

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Good Morning Britain's Ranvir Singh made an awkward blunder when she forgot that Olympic medallist Roger Black was still on a video call waiting to join a live on-air discussion.

Ranvir and her co-host Sean Fletcher had had a long chat with Roger, who won Olympic Silvers for the 400m sprint in the 90s, about Team GB at the Tokyo Olympics.

But by the time the hosts of Thursday morning's show welcomed their in-studio guests Dr Amir Khan, Lord Jeffrey Archer, and Miatta Fahnbulleh, they seemed to have forgotten all about Roger.

In a discussion about Covid jabs, international travel and vaccines for teenagers, Ranvir and Sean asked their in-person guests for their views – but it was 10 minutes before they finally remembered that Roger was patiently waiting to get a word in and had been left hanging on his video call.


Ranvir tried to gloss over the gaffe by saying: "Let's bring Roger Black in as well… The problem, Roger Black, with not being in the studio is that we don't see your lovely face the entire time.

"And then somebody in our ear goes: 'Roger is still here', so I'm terribly sorry if you put your hand up at any point during that – we couldn't see you!"

But luckily, Roger saw the funny side as he laughed along with the studio team and confirmed that he hadn't had Covid, but had been double jabbed.

Later in the show, Ranvir caught up with Christine Lampard who is covering for Lorraine this week, a role Ranvir took on for the previous two weeks – and the Good Morning Britain presenter admitted that she much preferred the start time for Lorraine.


She said: "Christine, I have to say I much prefer the Lorraine alarm to the 3am Good Morning Britain alarm."

Ranvir's usual job is reporting for Good Morning Britain, but her presenting duties have stepped up over the summer as Susanna Reid takes an extended summer break from the show.

She is filling in for Susanna as the show's main host along with Kate Garraway, Charlotte Hawkins, Sean Fletcher and Ben Shephard.

Meanwhile, ex-host Piers Morgan has still not been permanently replaced on the show since he quit in March over a row about his comments about Meghan Markle.

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