Live TV - there's nothing quite like it for rattling the nerves, causing your sweat glances to explode and scaring the living daylights out of you when you hear that "and we're live" command coming through your hidden earpiece as you stare like a rabbit caught in the headlights down the camera lens.

It's a situation where there are simply no second chances.

You can't just stop tape and start an interview from scratch again if something goes wrong, especially because of the viral world we live in today complete with a million different ways to share information.

And once it's out there in cyberspace there's simply no going back, as the poor host of BBC Breakfast, Bill Turnbull, found out for himself this week.

Unfortunately, while Bill was trying to say the word client he mistakenly blurted out another word beginning with C which some people find highly offensive.

If you watch the clip in slow motion you can actually see the exact split second were old Bill's life flashes before him while he suppresses the urge to vomit live on TV as his stomach flips a full 360 degrees before composing himself and carrying on like absolutely nothing out of the ordinary has happened.

When an incident like this does occur I always try to adopt the, 'Kicking Bishop Brennan up the Bahookie,' approach.

Okay, so you've kicked someone square up the jacksie but if you just carry on as normal the other person might actually think it simply didn't happen and move on with no fuss at all.

Sadly, in this instance though, that approach is useless as clips of the gaff have been shared thousands of times on social media and it's even been reported by every major news outlet in the country.

To be fair it's happened to the best of us while presenting live TV.

I once introduced Westlife as Boyzone and myself and Stephen Jardine actually made it on to the ITV blooper show, 'It'll Be Alright On The Night,' twice for gaffs made while presenting STV's The Hour, as I'm afraid that once I get a fit of the giggles it's takes forever to pull me back from the brink, plus I cry when I laugh which makes me look like Heath Ledger's Joker in The Dark Knight thanks to the layers of TV makeup I'm usually wearing.

There is something so very amusing though about seeing things go wrong on TV.

I love a good gag reel in the extras section on a DVD I've bought and I used to love seeing people lose it on live TV.

Phillip Schofield and Fern Britton were the best at it when they co-hosted This Morning together, although the original master of the live TV gaffs has to be their predecessors Richard and Judy.

It's been widely rumoured that Steve Coogan based his cult favourite comedy character Alan Partridge on Richard Madeley and when you read back some of the real life comments made by him on live TV it's not hard to see why.

Here are a few examples.

While interviewing someone about their obsessive crush on a celebrity, Richard's opening question was: "So Jane, when did you realise that you were quite clearly mad?"

Or when speaking with Bill Clinton about his alleged affair with Monica Lewinsky: "I know what it's like to be wronged by the press, I was once accused of shoplifting.

"Unlike you though, I was innocent."

And lastly my personal favourite quote from Mr M was when he said: "I've never met a single woman who is happy with the way she looks, except Jordan aka Katie Price although I've never actually met her."

I was interviewed by the great man just after I'd lost all the weight working with Gillian McKeith and he spent the first five minutes totally baffled and obsessed with the fact that I'd lost 10stone but somehow my breasts had got bigger?

It was only when Judy had finally had enough that the interview was able to move on to other topics.

I'd actually love to see them both let loose back on primetime TV as I'm sure would many others

including Bill Turnbull as his little slip ups would pale in comparison to what we could expect from that dynamic duo back on our screens.

Right, that's it, I'm starting a petition.

I must say a big hello to all my family who are currently visiting Glasgow from Canada this week.

It's my Uncle Jim and Auntie May Crawford's 50th Wedding Anniversary and they are here in Bonnie Scotland celebrating with their daughters Gillian and Claire and grandsons Rogan and Simon along with long time friend Bob Hampson.

I hope you have the most wonderful time celebrating 50 years of love and happiness back home with all of your Scottish Clan.