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3.8 million unsuspecting Brits were given a show they didn’t quite expect last week when News at Ten presenter Sophie Raworth unwittingly delivered the news in front of a screen playing a raunchy sex scene. It didn’t take long for stunned viewers to take to Twitter and quiz BBC about their indiscretion (“did I just see boobs on the news?”), and BBC, seemingly equally as shocked, assured their viewers that they were investigating and “establishing the facts.” While they struggled to piece together what had happened and whether or not a BBC employee had been watching porn at their desk, actress Anna Paquin quickly identified the breasts as her own from a steamy True Blood scene.
Paquin immediately saw the humor in the situation, calling it “objectively funny“, and her former fellow cast members, including Evan Rachel Wood, scene-in-question partner Robert Kazinsky, and husband Stephen Moyer joined in for the laugh.
After a fan coined the term “photoboobed”, Paquin jokingly asked HBO if it counted as “syndication” and if she could claim her royalties in “titcoin“. She also clarified that the accidentally-shown scene was “fairy land graveyard sex” between her character Sookie Stackhouse and Kazinsky’s half-fairy, half-vampire character, Warlow, from Season 6. Kazinsky expressed relief that at least the BBC blunder hadn’t focused on his “tombstone tied donut eating belly.” True Blood, which aired its final episode in 2014, was notorious for its no-holds-barred, supernatural sex scenes, and this unfortunate exhibition was no exception.
No word yet on the fate of the True Blood binging employee.
