Out Takes - the little mistakes famous folk would like to forget?

We all make that little verbal slip, the twist of phrase that sounds all right before it slips from your lips. Well TV and Radio folks have their slips broadcast to millions and recorded for posterity! Here's a few from the UK!

"Liz Taylor is recovering in hospital after having had a benign tuna removed from just behind her right ear."

Capital Radio, London

Peter Snow: "In a sense, Deng Xiaoping's death was inevitable, wasn't it?"

Expert: "Yes."

TV Channel 4 News

As Phil De Glanville said, each game is unique, and this one is no different to any other."

John Sleightholme, BBC1

Shoemaker: "Sometimes we use French leather."

John Eley: "Where do you get that from?"

Shoemaker: "France!"

BBC Radio Suffolk

You weigh up the pros and cons and try to put them in chronological order."

Dave Bassett, BBC Radio 5 Live

Shane Ritchie: "What's your name?"

Contestant: "Eva."

Shane Ritchie: "Short for?"

Contestant: "Eva."

ITV (Shane Ritchie is an ex-UK games show host now appeariung in East Enders)

If England are going to win this match, they're going to have to score a goal."

Jimmy Hill (soccer commentator), BBC TV

Fern Brittain: "So you're a schoolteacher. And what sort of children do you teach?"

Contestant: "Schoolchildren."

BBC 2

"You could hear everyone's eyebrows going higher and higher into their foreheads."

BBC Radio 1

Beethoven, Kurtag, Charles Ives, Debussy - four very different names."

Presenter, BBC Proms, Radio 3

"It's like learning to play golf. Just when you think you've cracked it, they move the goal posts."

Adrian Love, Southern Counties Radio

"Cystitis is a living death, it really is. Nobody ever talks about it, but if I was faced with a choice between having my arms removed and getting cystitis, I'd wave good-bye to my arms quite happily."

Louise Wener (of Sleeper) in Q Magazine

"...an idea someone picks up and runs with, only to find they've painted themselves into a corner."

British Labour Party Spokesperson, BBC1

Grand National winning jockey Mick Fitzgerald: "Sex is an anti-climax after that!"

Desmond Lynam: "Well, you gave the horse a wonderful ride, everyone saw that."

BBC

"Julian Dicks is everywhere. It's like they've got eleven Dicks on the field."

Metro Radio

"Morcelli has the four fastest 1500-metre times ever. And all those times are at 1500 metres."

David Coleman, BBC1

Listener: "My most embarrassing moment was when my artificial leg fell off at the altar on my wedding day."

Simon Fanshawe: "How awful! Do you still have an artificial leg?"

Talk Radio Interview.

"So did you see which train crashed into which train first?"

15-year-old: "No, they both ran into each other at the same time."

BBC Radio 4

"The lack of money is evident but you've got 12,000 volunteers who'll break their back to make sure it's a success."

ITV's Today Program (on the Paralympics)

Presenter [to palaeontologist]: "So what would happen if you mated the woolly mammoth with, say, an elephant?"

Guest: "Well in the same way that a horse and a donkey produce a mule, we'd get a sort of half-mammoth.

Presenter: "So it'd be like some sort of hairy gorilla?"

Guest: "Er, yes, but elephant shaped, and with tusks."

Greater London Radio

Kilroy-Silk: "Did you mean to get pregnant?"

Girl: "No. It was a cock-up."

Kilroy-Silk a morning chat show host, ITV

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