Not Nicola Sturgeon, obviously (Picture: BBC)

The BBC has apologised after accidentally showing footage of the gorilla that escaped from London Zoo instead of a clip of Nicola Sturgeon.

BBC Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty stifled a laugh following the blunder this morning.

A gorilla escaped at London Zoo and everyone thought of Harambe

She and co-presenter Charlie Stayt had been discussing the SNP leader’s plans to call a second Scottish Independence referendum when footage of Kumbuka, a 7ft gorilla that legged it from its London Zoo enclosure last night, was shown by mistake.

Naga, one of this year’s Strictly come Dancing contestants, introduced the clip: ‘We’re going to be joined by the Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon – we’ll talk to her about plans for a second referendum on independence.’




And then…*cuts to gorilla footage*

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Oh dear.

This is Nicola Sturgeon, FYI (Picture: Getty)

Attempting to salvage the segment, Stayt said: ‘I’m sorry we’ve very clearly run the wrong pictures over that particular sequence.

‘My apologies there. The story we will be taking about later, as you’ve probably guessed from the pictures, is about the escaped gorilla at London Zoo.

‘We will be speaking to one of the gorilla keepers from the zoo.’

Whoopsie (Picture: BBC)