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Bill Turnbull joins the BBC’s C-word hall of fame

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Bill Turnbull has achieved online fame after he mispronounced a word on the BBC Breakfast sofa earlier today. During the programme, the presenter mistook the word ‘client’ for the word ‘c–t’ when reading aloud a message from a viewer:

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