Monday morning on the“Today”show got off to a truly spectacular start when Craig Melvin tried to steer his interview with Parker Posey toward scary movies and said“talk horror.”Posey misheard it as something with a very different vowel situation and thought Melvin had just called her a whore on live television. Melvin’s response was immediate and panicked:“I did not call you a whore! H-o-r-r, horror, I did not enunciate well,”before turning to co-host Carson Daly and begging him to save the situation.
The interview then went from awkward to genuinely surprising. Posey mentioned she’s no longer starring in the Blumhouse film“Sleepover,”which directly contradicted the notes Melvin was reading on air, and she fanned herself with her papers while admitting she was“sweating.”To her credit, she called the whole exchange funny, and she closed things out by noting that People recently named Melvin the Sexiest Morning Show Host. Grace under pressure, honestly.
Live TV mishaps are the best kind of watercooler content, and this one has everything: a viral misheard word, a surprise casting denial, and one very flustered anchor. What would you have done in Melvin’s shoes? Let us know in the comments.
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