ITV presenter makes live apology over Kate bikini photo gaffe

Eamonn Holmes was forced to make an on-air apology on This Morning after an unblurred image of the Italian magazine front cover featuring the duchess of Cambridge in a bikini “accidentally” appeared on screen.

The image appeared during the programme’s news review segment when the publication of the photographs of pregnant Kate on a private Caribbean holiday was being discussed. The photos, which have been condemned by St James’s Palace, show Kate strolling on a beach in Mustique with William.

The presenter said: “Unfortunately we accidentally showed an unblurred image of the magazine cover, which briefly showed the photographs.