A newsreader was left red faced today after wrongly saying while live on air that the Pope had died.
Presenter Kylie Pentelow accidentally said Pope Francis had passed away as she discussed the religious leader's annual Christmas address.
The ITV News journalist was reporting on the Pope's vaccination pleas when she made the blunder.
She said: "He said that vaccines should be made available to those most in need.
"His death was announced ... eh, excuse me."
As reported by our sister title The Mirror, viewers took to Twitter to comment on the blunder.
One said: "Someone get this newsreader a drink STAT. We all make mistakes."
Another added: "The news reporter on ITV News announced the death of The Pope by accident, then swiftly moved on before she finished the announcement.
"Straight faced and all."
A third said: "If the pope dies in the next six hours, the police will knocking on ITV News' door.
And a fourth posted: "Just to check, the Pope is all ok, isn't he?!"
The Pope - who is 85-years-old - was speaking from the central balcony of St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, as he urged people to unite in both personal and professional relationships.
He said: "Our capacity for social relationships is sorely tried; there is a growing tendency to withdraw, to do it all by ourselves, to stop making an effort to encounter others and do things together.
"On the international level, too, there is the risk of avoiding dialogue; the risk that this complex crisis will lead to taking shortcuts rather than setting out on the longer paths of dialogue.
"Yet only those paths can lead to the resolution of conflicts and to lasting benefits for all."
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Pope Francis also discussed the "great number of conflicts, crises and disagreements" in the world.
He said: "We continue to witness a great number of conflicts, crises and disagreements.
"These never seem to end; by now we hardly even notice them.
"We have become so used to them that immense tragedies are now being passed over in silence, we risk not hearing the cry of pain and distress of so many of our brothers and sisters."
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2021-12-25 21:53:01Z
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