BBC Breakfast's Dan Walker 'surprised' he lasted on show after many career changes

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Carol Kirkwood was forced to leave BBC Breakfast hosts Louise Minchin and Dan Walker hanging in the studio today after she suffered problems with her earpiece and couldn’t hear them. The presenters had just been talking to tennis aficionado Judy Murray when they joked she and weather reporter Carol were "best friends".Initially, Carol laughed along as though she could hear the presenters and proceeded to conduct her latest report.

BBC Breakfast presenter Dan Walker was forced to apologise as the show experienced extended technical issues just as they welcomed Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey this morning.

Carol Kirkwood has taken to Twitter to wish everyone a good morning before leaving a note to herself.The weather presenter, who has to get up at the crack of dawn to be on TV screens at 6am, told fans that she was feeling tired after staying up late on a school night.Carol blamed her late bedtime on hit TV show Line Of Duty, which airs at 9pm on Sunday evenings.“Note to self: DO NOT stay up late on a Sunday evening to watch @Line_of_duty @Vicky_McClure…” she wrote online, in view of her 203,500 followers."No matter how BRILLIANT it is!!!! (and it is!!!) xxx,”(sic) Carol continued, adding two tired emojis.BBC Breakfast host Dan Walker re-tweeted her post on his own account, adding: “Poor preparation @carolkirkwood."He then added the hashtag:

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Dan Walker refused to let his BBC colleague's "laziness" slide when he spotted some littering in the bathroom of his work office.The BBC Breakfast presenter, 44, spotted a newspaper planted on the floor of the bog on Saturday morning and paused to take a photo.Sharing the snap to Twitter, Dan scolded the mystery colleague for leaving the newspaper behind, adding the hashtags "#SomeoneElsesProblem" "#WorkToilet" to the end of his tweet.He vented: "I'm all for having something to read on the throne but this is next level laziness."The thread below the post was filled with mixed reactions - while some agreed it was a lazy act, others pointed out the offender had left some reading material for the next person in the loo."Is this Q2? The one on

Dan Walker, 44, is well-known as part of the hosting team on BBC Breakfast.

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BBC Breakfast star Carol Kirkwood made a bit of a slip-up when she was live on air yesterday.The mortified weather presenter got the name of her co-star Ben Thompson wrong and later took to social media to apologise.Ben stepped in to replace regular presenter Charlie Stayt alongside Naga Munchetty.As ever, Carol made several appearances on the show to give viewers the weather forecast for the day ahead.Just before 8am, the 58-year-old called the host “Dan”, seemingly in reference to Dan Walker, who hosts the show Monday to Wednesday.“Lovely lovely @BBCBenThompson I am sorry!!! xxx,” she later wrote on Twitter in view of her 203,400 followers, after the on-air exchange.“I’ve been called so much worse!” Ben amusingly replied.Many took to the

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BBC Breakfast after she made an obvious blunder by calling presenter Ben Thompson the wrong name.Though Ben and his co-host Naga Munchetty appeared on the breakfast show for the first time this week, Carol,58, had previously presented the weather alongside hosts Louise Minchin and Dan Walker.Due to the change of presenters, Carol, like anybody would, got rather muddled up with names.On Thursday morning, after she had finished presenting the weather, Carol realised she had made a huge mistake with names and called Ben, Dan.The weather lady said: "Perhaps on Sunday there will be a bit more cloud around, but again that is open to question.

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BBC Breakfast viewers had a laugh at the expense of an MP who spoke so fast in an interview he was compared to a horse-racing commentator.Welsh Conservative Party leader Andrew RT Davies was being interviewed by Dan Walker on the show and, while it started sounding pretty normal, he rapidly sped up and didn't pause for breath in his garbled speech.The bizarre clip went viral on Twitter when a user uploaded it with the caption: "The Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies was just interviewed on BBC, and for some reason he turned into a horse racing commentator halfway through an answer."One baffled viewer said: "All I can think of is that he must’ve been working at Chepstow racecourse at some point in a past life."Meanwhile, other people

BBC Breakfast host Louise Minchin shrieked 'watch out Dan!' as a flying drone threw the show's NASA report into chaos. Louise could not contain her concern for co-host Dan Walker as the flying mechanism was let loose in the studio.

BBC Breakfast on Wednesday morning but was faced with some rather awkward questions from presenter Dan Walker.

BBC Breakfast, presenters Dan Walker and Louise Minchin were left on the edge of their seats when their interview with John Barnes got cut off mid-conversation.

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Dan Walker reflected on his time at BBC Breakfast as the presenter cheekily joked he often doesn't "last more than 18 months" in a role before moving onto something else.The 44-year-old took over from Bill Turnbull as the presenter of the news programme in February 2016.The broadcaster confessed that he is still surprised that he has remained on Breakfast for over four years, as he credited the team and his co-presenter Louise Minchin.The dad-of-three admitted he has no plans to leave the programme, as he spoke candidly about his future.Dan explained: "With Breakfast, if you told me when I started that I would be doing [the programme] for four and a half years, I would have gone, 'Don't be daft.'"But I really enjoy it.

BBC Breakfast presenters Carol Kirkwood and Dan Walker are giving each other cheeky jibes yet again, as weather lady Carol awkwardly snubbed Dan as she failed to hear his question.On Tuesday morning’s episode Carol, 58, was given the opportunity to present the weather from Odds Farm Park located in Buckinghamshire.As she confidently presented at the farm near one of the stables, bird noises could evidently be heard in the background.After Carol had finished presenting, Dan who was currently sitting in the studio with co-host Louise Minchin, picked up on the fact that the birds were chirping rather loudly.Facing Louise Dan said: "The birds are very noisy today."Louise responded: "Yeah they are."Turning back to address Carol on the Farm, Dan

BBC Breakfast presenter Dan Walker took to Twitter today after his co-host posted an unflattering picture of the pair on social media.The 44-year-old TV star looked far from his best and admitted that he instantly regretted not making more of an effort for the snap.Louise, who looked lovely in a pink blazer, smiled for the camera with a wide-eyed expression on her face, as she sat on the famous red sofa.In the background, Dan could be seen trying to make it into the photo.He was laying almost horizontally across the sofa and the day’s newspapers.The picture was posted online by Louise, ahead of their stint on TV.“Good morning all,” she wrote in view of her 205,400 followers.Dan then shared the post with his own fans.“You know when you pose

BBC Breakfast journalist and presenter Dan Walker was faced with a query from an eagle-eyed viewer of The One Show on Monday, after he noticed that the presenter was wearing an unusual item during his interview.Appearing via video link, Dan Walker, 44, discussed the news of a new European super football league and why fans were against the idea.The BBC Breakfast presenter was talking passionately about the subject and ended his conversation by asking host Alex Jones what colour shirt he should wear on the breakfast show in the morning.Though the interview went well, one viewer was distracted by Dan’s appearance and took to Twitter to point out that he had an elastic band wrapped around his fingers during the interview.Fellow BBC music