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This is the awkward moment a BBC reporter confuses disgraced comedian Bill Cosby for Bill Clinton live on air.
Journalist Michelle Fleury was reporting on the entertainer's shock prison release - but accidentally referred the former US President instead.
The huge gaffe forced top BBC News presenter Huw Edwards to apologise to viewers for the blunder.
It came just hours after Cosby, 83, was allowed to return home just two years into his 10 year sentence for sexual assault because of a legal technicality.
Journalist Michelle Fleury was reporting on disgraced entertainer Bill Cosby's shock prison release - but accidentally referred former US President Bill Clinton instead
In the video, news anchor Huw Edwards introduces Ms Fleurry, live from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to give the latest update on Cosby's conviction being overturned.
But in her opening sentence she manages to mistake the comedian with a former in Commander-in-Chief
'Huw, for the last two years this has been where Bill Clinton has called home,' she
