SUSANNA Reid was left blushing on today’s Good Morning Britain when co-star Ed Balls made a cheeky gag about an X-rated prank during last night’s BBC football coverage.
The shocking on-air prank saw a pornographic noise ring loudly around the studio as Gary Lineker presented the build up to Wolves vs Liverpool.
After newsreader Charlotte Hawkins quipped it wasn’t “the pre-match build up people were expecting” on today’s GMB, Ed Balls said: “Did it go to extra time?”
Smiling Susanna then said: “I was going to say very tastefully done. Then we added Ed Balls’ intervention.”
He bashfully replied “sorry”, before teasing “Did it go to penalties?”
Refusing to be part of the banter, Susanna said: “I’m not going to ad lib on this story.”
Laughing, Ed said: “Come with me on this journey, come with me. Golden goal.”
Drawing a line under it, Susanna responded: “Can we find what is happening with the weather? Can we just bring it all down a little bit.”
Pundits Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer struggled to hide their embarrassment as they were forced to compete with an odd noise that viewers likened to a porn film.
It was later revealed that a notorious prankster had hidden a mobile phone on the TV set at Molineux.
Daniel Jarvis, who is a serial pitch invader, then activated the sexy sounds ring-tone simply by ringing the mobile as he watched the live pictures on BBC1.
The honking noises started just moments before the FA Cup third round replay was about to get underway.
It was first played as Lineker went live to co-commentator Shearer who was waiting to speak to him in the stadium.
Lineker started laughing and said: “I don’t know who’s making that noise.
“I don’t know if somebody is sending a joke on someone’s phone, I don’t know if you heard it at home.”
Being the professional that he is, Lineker continued to present the show impeccably despite the sound simply not going away.
It kept stopping and then restarting almost immediately.
The BBC are looking into how the incident happened.
A BBC spokesperson said: “We apologise to any viewers offended during the live coverage of the football this evening.
“We are investigating how this happened.”
Once the game had started, Shearer joked that it was coming from Danny Murphy’s phone with the ex-Liverpool man also in the studio.
But Lineker took to Twitter to reveal exactly what had happened.
He uploaded a photo of a phone taped to the back of the set.
The caption said: “Well, we found this taped to the back of the set. As sabotage goes it was quite amusing.”
Serial pitch invader Daniel Jarvis claimed responsibility for the incident.
The YouTuber, whose account name is Jarvo69, hosted a live stream as he hijacked the BBC’s coverage.
He proudly announced at the beginning of the video: “Here we are, we have set up a phone with a loud sex noise in the BBC studios at the Wolves v Liverpool FA Cup replay.”
