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Steph McGovern admits lying to BBC Breakfast to bag TV job 'Told them 10 seconds before'
BBC Breakfast as a news reporter.The presenter was a part of the team for eight years before stepping down in 2019 to host her own show.Speaking of the moment on her show Steph’s Packed Lunch, she told guest Chris Kamara: “I remember when I got the job of presenting Breakfast news, I’d been asked, ‘Have you ever done live TV before?’ And I said 'Yes' and I hadn’t’.”The presenter said she dropped the bombshell she hadn’t done live television before just seconds before going on air.“You’ve got to blag it sometimes in life and I told them 10 seconds before we went to air,” she added.The host went on to explain she was speaking to former BBC presenter Susanna Reid at the time, while she and her co-host prepared to go live.Graham Norton