A BBC News presenter has received international attention after an incident live on air over the weekend. Martine Croxall altered the wording of a script during a live broadcast by changing the phrase “pregnant people” to “women” while reporting on a heatwave-related health study.
Croxall was reading out research findings from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, which warned of nearly 600 heat-related deaths expected in the UK amid high temperatures. When she came to a line advising which groups are most at risk, she initially said “pregnant people” as written on the autocue, then paused and amended the wording with an eye-roll.
