[Otis Crump]

And now for something you'd never get away with.

March 2003 - the late great Tony Wilson, during a mid-afternoon Granada News bulletin, lets rip at his production crew during the lead package. Unfortunately, someone left his mic up.

Wilson apologised at the end, but was suspended - he left Granada Reports a few months later.

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NSFW, obviously.

This is mentioned in one of the books about him. I'd never actually seen the clip though. It says he ad libs an apology at the end and there was another apology on the 6pm programme, which he stood down from.