What's the worst thing you have ever witnessed first-hand happen on live tv?

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For me it would have to be Christian Eriksson collapsing at the euros in 2021

All the above. Also Wouter Weylandt crashing in the Giro. He died instantly. He was 26 and about to become a dad.

Wtf !!! I don't remember that happening on Graham Norton !!!!😯

All that have been mentioned, but also I remember cooking dinner while listening to radio 4 news and hearing what must have been Marie Colvin's last report from Homs. She described being trapped in a small enclave while Asaad's forces pounded it with artillery, watching a little baby boy take his last breath for lack of medical care able to get though and was clearly upset. I cried while I was stirring the onions and then again when she was murdered by Assad's forces the next day. It was so shocking, it was like listening to a drama but so horribly real.

i imagine that Assad will find himself next to an 8 story window soon. I hope so, anyway.

It was circa the year 2001.

I remember watching the Iranian siege as a seven year old child and being quite frightened. I will never forget the dark uniforms of the SAS climbing down the white walls of the embassy.

9/11, almost goes without saying.

The bombing and subsequent fire on RFA Sir Galahad during the Falklands War, May 1982.

I remember the storming of the Iranian Embassy - I was quite young and was frightened by it. I think they stopped showing the snooker to show it live.

Great answer. It’s always shocking when people are gratuitously rude. I feel the same way when Jarvis Cocker exposed his bum at Michael Jackson during Jackson’s live (mimed) performance of ‘Earth Song’.

You don’t have to like him, but being so disrespectful during another artist’s performance put me off Jarvis Cocker forever.

9/11 was horrific , but I was still in school so I don’t think I really took in what I was seeing.

Two things stand out for me that I have never forgotten.

There was a stabbing in my town , someone had filmed it. I didn’t really realise what I was watching when I saw it on Facebook - I wasn’t prepared , thought it was a news story and I saw the young man get stabbed and fall to the floor bleeding and I have never forgotten. It was awful.

Another was watching the news when Lee Rigby was stabbed and seeing the monsters that did it talking about it with his blood on their hands. Again, something I couldn’t get out of my mind .

Those awful adverts where starved donkeys that are skin and bone are forced to walk with carts on their back with people sitting on them and / or heavily loaded with bricks and then seeing a young brat of a boy whipping a donkeys backside. The lifeless eyes of those donkeys is heartbreaking to see. I hate animal cruelty!

The IRA bombing in hyde park where the horses were killed (and I think it was servicemen too) but I'll never forget those images. Stayed with me for life - I was about 13 I think.

And 9/11. Standing on that site many years after was a really profound moment in my life, you had a real sense of the horror of it at scale.

I remember the Iranian Embassy siege but didn't find it horrifying at the time.

Scariest thing for me was the Harrods bombing. My late mother lived in London and went daily by bus to voluntary work. The bus went through Knightsbridge and she often used to hop off on the way home to browse Harrods and the nearby shops. I came out of a work meeting and heard what had happened, felt completely sick until I had phoned her and confirmed she was safe.

Footage of babies currently starving to death in Gaza.

The Raoul Moat man hunt probably sticks with me as I lived 5 mins away from where he shot PC Rathband

Im 66, seen a lot, but Hillsborough, Challenger and 9/11 have stayed with me.

It's a fine point, but apart from those in the area I doubt many will have seen 9/11 live, as in when the first aircraft hit - interesting timeline here, showing that the broadcasts started a couple of minutes later: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_for_the_day_of_the_September_11_attacks#:~:text=NEADS%20will%20not%20become%20aware,minutes%20after%20Flight%2011's%20crash.

Like many I didn't know until my lad put the TV on to play a DVD, and thought how very realistic the "disaster movie" seemed ... until, that is, I saw the news reports scrolling across the bottom of the screen

This is absolutely awful. How terrible that a different story, but such similar situations are still happening in the world today. Just awful.

Not on TV but in real life I saw a man throwing himself in front of a train and kill himself. His body rolled around and stopped directly next to where I was standing. He was between the train and the platform when he stopped. He was definitely dead as I saw his face.

This was when I was either 4 or 5.

I don't really get that affected by stuff on TV news, (I just blank it all out tbh) but the one that really upset me was Grenfell. I was crying over that.

9/11.

Lee rigby footage of the killer stomping around after. They later blurred the knife and the blood.

Also 9/11 although I was only 8 so my memory is mainly of my mum watching it and freaking out, which in turn scared me.

I can't actually think of anything else that unfolded live like that until recently watching live footage of people reporting from gaza.

A genocide being live-streamed out of Gaza

And the people jumping from the windows on 9/11

9/11 live. The vivid blue skies in contrast to the unfolding horror.

Other horrors include the new reports of ISIS which have stayed with me (so not live).

I remember seeing a woman on the news in the late early 90s in some part of Africa and her town way being attacked, she way running with her two children and they couldn't keep up so she was holding them by the arms and dragging them along side her as she was trying to run. Their knees were skinned and legs bleeding. That has never left me and I think of it often.