Poor Julie Etchingham. One minute she is the golden girl of television, reading the headlines for Sky News (which I have been watching more and more recently, and find quite impressive). The next she is making headlines herself.
A silly comment during David Cameron's speech on immigration - she finished his sentence, when he was saying "Our policy is..." with the word "extermination" - has left red faces all round. Reports say the Tories are, understandably, fuming that one of their key speeches was lost in the storm surrounding Etchingham's comments.
And she is quite right to be embarrassed. It was a highly unprofessional gaffe - something which shouldn't happen to someone of her experience, especially seeing as she has just been offered £400,000 to front ITV's News At Ten.
This kind of thing does keep on happening, though. You would have hoped that those reading the news would be savvy enough to keep out of it themselves.
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