He had appeared on Have I Got News for You the previous evening
BBC News presenter Clive Myrie was pulled from hosting the BBC Ten O'Clock News over jokes he made about Boris Johnson on a comedy show, according to national reports. 58-year-old Myrie was taken off duty on Friday, June 16, at the last minute.
"After being found by the House of Commons committee to have lied repeatedly, Boris Johnson takes the opportunity to deny that he’s ever been jogging or has a dog," Myrie quipped over footage of Johnson out jogging with his dog Dilyn. The concern is understood to have been related to Myrie's back-to-back appearances on Have I Got News for You and straight on to the late news bulletin.
Meanwhile, a BBC executive said of the situation: “It didn’t feel right for Clive to go almost straight to the news when he’d just been making jokes. "It was a tonal thing rather than due to anyone being overly anxious." It comes after disgraced former PM Johnson announced earlier this month he would quit as the MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip immediately before the Privileges Committee warned him he faced being kicked out of Parliament for misleading MPs over Partygate.
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