A BBC reporter confused disgraced funnyman Bill Cosby with former President Bill Clinton on-air while covering the comedian’s overturned sexual assault conviction.
Journalist Michelle Fleury made the unfortunate gaffe while reporting Wednesday from the state prison where Cosby had been serving his 10-year sentence in Pennsylvania, the Independent reported.
“This has been where Bill Clinton has called home, but tonight he will sleep in his own bed after the bombshell decision to overturn his conviction of sexual assault,” Fleury said outside the prison near Philadelphia.
When her live shot wrapped up, her colleague Huw Edwards apologized for the mistake.
“Just to clarify what was said there in Michelle’s introduction to the story when she mistakenly said Bill Clinton instead of Bill Cosby, we apologize for the mistake,” Edwards told viewers.
Clinton, however, is no stranger to sex scandals himself, including his infamous affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky — but none of them have resulted in criminal charges for sex crimes.
Cosby, who starred in “The Cosby Show,” was convicted three years ago of drugging and molesting Temple University employee Andrea Constand at his home, but the state’s highest court threw out the conviction Wednesday after finding that he was unfairly prosecuted in the case.
