John Inverdale has made his latest on-air gaffe after remarkably managing to drop a completely out-of-context c-bomb live on BBC radio.
The 57-year-old was interviewing jockeys at the Cheltenham Festival when he made the x-rated mistake, forcing him to apologise live on air.
Former jockey John Francome said: ‘You get wet, you’re mucking out, and it’s hard work.
‘But through all of that it’s a way of life that most of them wouldn’t swap, a lot of people go off and do other things and then come back to it.’
Inverdale then replied: ‘This is looking at it through rose-c***ed…rose-tinted glasses from the past.’
‘I apologise there for a slip of the tongue.’
A recording of the interview in question can be heard in the video below- but be warned – none of the offensive language has been bleeped out.
This isn’t the first time that a ‘slip of the tongue’ from the presenter has caused offence, with Inverdale also generating controversy by suggesting that the 2013 Wimbledon champion Marion Bartoli ‘was never going to be a looker’.
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