The BBC Radio 5 Live presenter suffered an unfortunate slip of the tongue as he described the welcoming party waiting for US President Donald Trump to touch down in the UK. The US leader on Monday began a three-day state visit during which he will meet with the Queen and several members of the Royal Family at Buckingham Palace. Speaking from Stansted Airport as he waited for Air Force One to land, Mr Campbell said: “He is going to be meeting BJ Harrington, Chief Constable of Essex Police who is standing just behind Jeremy C**t – Jeremy Hunt.

“And he is also going to meet Steve Griffiths, Chief Operating Officer at London Stansted Airport.”

Despite quickly recovering from the mistake, Mr Campbell’s blunder did not go unnoticed by the audience who took to Twitter to voice their amusement.

Daily Mail chief Sports Reporter Matt Lawton tweeted: “I’ve a feeling Nicky Campbell just got Jeremy Hunt’s name wrong in a really unfortunate way.”

Social media user @BriefcaseMike noted the unfortunate mistake had happened before: “I was in the bath swishing water around and thought I’d misheard but apparently Nicky Campbell really did just call Jeremy Hunt ‘Jeremy C**t’. How many times has this happened now?”

Another user wrote: “Freudian slip of the day…Nicky Campbell Radio 5 just called Jeremy Hunt the Foreign Secretary Jeremy C**T on the air… Ooohh???”

Twitter user Johnny–Cook tweeted: “If you’re having a bad day, catch up on this morning’s Radio 5, at around 9.05-9.10, when lovely Nicky Campbell has a tip of the slung and refers to the Foreign Secretary as “Jeremy C***” .”

Mr Campbell was not the first BBC presenter to suffer a Freudian slip, as a colleague Justin Webb made the same mistake while reading the then-Health Secretary’s name during a news bulletin last year. 

Jeremy Hunt welcomed the US President at the start of his three-day state visit to Britain during which he will attend a commemoration ceremony to marking the 75th Anniversary of the D-Day landings in Portsmouth.

Before the ceremony, Mr Trump will be hosted for a private lunch with the Queen, Prince Charles and Prince Harry at Buckingham Palace. He will also meet with Theresa May for the last time before she officially resigns after three years at the helm of the British Government. 

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