Clemente was fired after he was caught angrily using expletives during his premiere appearance as an evening news anchor for an NBC affiliate there.
The incident comes just two weeks after a news broadcaster in North Dakota lost his job after his on-air slip-of-the-tongue went viral. Who couldn't use a good chuckle every now & then right?"
On Wednesday, she tweeted: "Thanks for laughing along with me & my "tremendous" slip, guys. But she initially tried to have fun with her on-air mistake. And the incident also took off on Twitter, with online sports news website Deadspin even tweeting out a (rather gratuitous) remix of it:Ĭollins has yet to comment since being canned. Jay Leno showed the video of Collins' mistake on the "Tonight Show" Wednesday, and called it the "Freudian Slip of the Day." The video clip already has been viewed more than 170,000 times on YouTube.
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Collins was fired Thursday, though CSN Chicago's parent company, Comcast, claimed that it was unrelated to her TV blooper. She very quickly corrected her flub - she meant to say "success" - but the video went viral. That was how she started a sentence about the team's progress during a report for Comcast SportsNet Chicago. During a live televised report outside the Chicago Blackhawks locker room, Collins said of the team: "Despite the fact that they've had a tremendous amount of sex in the regular season." "At the end of summer I'm ready to go see where the next challenge is.For Chicago sports reporter Susannah Collins, it was an unfortunate slip of the tongue. Though he is still getting some interviews about the incident and even, strangely enough, congratulations, Clemente said he's not letting his new-found fame get the best of him.Ĭoncentrating on just getting through another season for now, the fallen anchorman said he's eager to move on this fall. "Kelly and Michel were awesome, but Letterman was like talking to a friend," he said, a little surprised by the outpouring of support.īy May Clemente had returned to Dewey Beach to work for a third summer at Que Pasa. Making appearances on the Kelly and Michael show and the David Letterman show were highlights, he said, and he was surprised to find out from some friends he met backpacking through Europe last winter that the blooper even made an international splash. From Lauer to Letterman, they all said it could have happened to anyone." Plus, he made it to the red carpet opening of "Love is All You Need."ĭuring his whirlwind media blitz, Clemente said he was surprised at all the support he received, especially from old-time pros such as Tom Brokaw, who made a surprise appearance on Morning Joe to offer encouragement. So Clemente, who moved from New York to Newark when he was young, went with his hometown and by Wednesday of that same week, he was making appearances to confront the goof on The Today Show, Morning Joe, Inside Edition, E!, Extra, the Kelly and Michael show and Letterman. "I was still in the process of deciding whether to hide or just go with it," he said. The next day was Monday, and that's when Clemente said he officially got the ax, but he was already beginning to field calls from media outlets nationwide, offering to fly him to New York and L os Angeles for appearances. His co-host was also visibly shaken at the start of the newscast, which Clemente said began 30 seconds early, but both recovered and the new anchorman said he had no idea his profanity had aired until the third commercial break.Īs soon as the video was posted online, Clemente said it went viral and by the second newscast at 10 p.m., the clip had already received 350,000 hits online. With no cue, no countdown and no audio in the newsroom, Clemente had no idea that when he uttered two strong profanities before he thought the cameras were on, he actually opened the newscast with them. "That day I got the OK and then I went on," he said of his first day as the evening weekend anchorman at an NBC television station in Bismark, North Dakota. Clemente's slip made him a jobless internet sensation.Ĭlemente, 24, is now working his third summer at Que Pasa, pouring drinks and fielding questions about his first on-air appearance as a news anchor, when technical difficulties caught the news team off-guard and resulted in some equally off-color remarks in the first moments of his career as an anchorman. The first day of a new job is always nerve wracking, but on his first day as a television news anchor in April, Dewey Beach bartender A.J.