TV anchor sacked after swearing with first words on air

Anchor AJ Clemente’s, short-lived, career a presenter for a North Dakota television station was brief but memorable after a hilarious on-air gaffe.

Viewers of NBC North Dakota News could be forgiven for thinking they had switched on the wrong channel after he made his debut on the programme with the words “f***ing s**t”.

Believing that he was not yet live on air, Clemente could be heard uttering the profanities as he looked down intently at his computer in the opening seconds of the programme.

He has since been fired as a result, despite an online campaign urging the station to keep him.

First day nerves in any job are understandable, but why is it that people are so quick to forget that they are on camera?

Think of the viewers they’ve tuned in for the headlines only to find out the new anchor man has got tourettes.

What was his segway to the weather, oh f**k the meteorologists they haven’t got a f***ing clue what they’re talking about its all bull**it.

I’d love to have seen how he signed off, I’m AJ Clemente thanks for watching a**holes.

We all wonder what anchors do when the credits are rolling yet we can still see them shuffling their papers and mumbling to themselves, but I think I can guess what this guy was saying: I well and truly f***ed that up.