Image: Twitter@scottygb''Who had 'Margaret Thatcher rising from the grave to send a tweet regarding #Election2020 ' on their 2020 bingo card?''
As the US presidential election rolls on, spare a thought for those in the media who are being asked to put in massive shifts to cover all the drama.
One of those workers is BBC News anchor Matthew Amroliwala, who has gone viral on Twitter after a hilarious slip of the tongue saw him confuse a tweet from former British prime minister Theresa May who is very much alive, and one of her predecessors Margaret Thatcher - who died in 2013.
BBC: “Let me just pull up a tweet that Margaret Thatcher has just put out... Theresa May sorry.” pic.twitter.com/2sDP8RFtPl
— Scott Bryan (@scottygb) November 4, 2020
He did promptly correct his mistake but not before it had been plastered all over Twitter, with some hilarious results:
BREAKING: Margaret Thatcher is now tweeting from the grave via @BBCNews pic.twitter.com/H95warH4dA
— Michael Andrews (@mytentoryours) November 4, 2020
Lmao Margaret Thatcher is tweeting now.
Oh Matthew! ? #BBCElection pic.twitter.com/yiOg26T3mZ— M (@MsMariamR) November 4, 2020
Matthew Amroliwala: “We’ve got a tweet here that Margaret Thatcher has just sent...”
[awkward pause]
“...I mean Theresa May”
— CAL ROSCOW (@calroscow) November 4, 2020
Bigger shock than the US election result will be Margaret Thatcher sending tweets pic.twitter.com/J2UqPdVb0I
— Jono (@jonoread) November 4, 2020
Who had 'Margaret Thatcher rising from the grave to send a tweet regarding #Election2020 ' on their 2020 bingo card? https://t.co/e3bIkxrtpT
— Dan Ellis (@dgellis0907) November 4, 2020
