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By The Drum Team | Editorial

August 1, 2015 | 2 min read

A BBC Sport report came to a bizarre end when the presenter started to tap and scroll away at his hand as if it were a tablet or smartphone.

Social media users captured the surreal moment when host Chris Mitchell started to use the 'imaginary iPad' as his Sportsday bulletin on the BBC News channel came to a close.

Mitchell hasn't explained exactly what he was doing but responded to tweets about his behaviour in good humour.

One tweeter suggested Mitchell had taken the 'iPad/BBC crown' from fellow presenter Simon McCoy who earlier this year presented a live broadcast holding a bundle of A4 paper. McCoy said he had picked up the paper by mistake instead of his iPad.

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