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By The Drum Team, Editorial

August 18, 2010 | 1 min read

The BBC has been forced to apologise after weatherman Tomasz Schafernaker was caught flipping the bird at one of his BBC news channel co-presenters live on air.

Schafernaker aimed his gesture at news anchor Simon McCoy who had sarcastically said his weather forecast would be "100 percent accurate".

Almost immediately panic-stricken Schafernaker realised he had been caught on camera and tried to digsuise the one-finger salute by rubbing his face.

A BBC spokesman said: "The News Channel presenter in the studio acknowledged a mistake had been made, and we apologise for any offence caused."

Schafernaker is no stranger to controversy having previously stumbled over his words and forecasted a "muddy shite" for Glastonbury and outraged Scottish viewers by labelling the Outer Hebrides "nowheresville".

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