30 most shocking things that have already occurred on live TV
See the moments more bonkers than any scripted event.
Of galas at sporting events to the cover of the news, live TV offers viewers the possibility that, just like in lifeeverything can happen. And, without surprise, almost everythingTo. Shocking prices show flubs to crimes that occur in real time, live television never fails to surprise us.
Fortunately, you do not need to dig deep into the archives to relive these shocking moments. We have rounded the best of the best, celebrity skidding to political events than history in shape. So enjoy and if you ever find yourself on the other side of the camera, remember: the prompt is your friend.
1 O.J. Simpson Car Chase
After being invited to the authorities as part of the murder of his ex-wifeNicole Brown Simpson,O.J. Simpsonwith his former teammate -a theVoves alPolice -Ded on a low-speed car tracking on the Los Angeles highway. With hoods at the flying white infamous Ford Bronco, and Oj sit next to him holding a pistol on his head, the pair was cut the tail by the font for more than two hours and seventy-five miles before going to the 'Alley of Simpson. According toAssociated pressNearly 95,000,000 Americans watched the hunting take place on television, which makes the most program rated this cable for the year 1994.
2 Faye Dunaway announces the fake Oscar
After being wrongly delivered the bad envelope, the presenters of the 2017 OSCAR of the best image-FAYE DUNAWAY andWarren Beattythat creation has been announcedThe Land would be winning the prestigious price. Unfortunately, this honor actually belonged to the filmMoonlight. The spectators looked in real time like the crewThe Land Accepted their gold statues, to have moments of return taken later. The entire exchange was so incredible that one ofThe Landthe producers " ,Jordan HorowitzHad made holding by announcing the plateMoonlight"S To win viewers to see. "It's not a joke," another producer reassured the crowd, "they read the wrong thing. »
3 Kanye West says "George Bush does not care about people of color"
Although he can come as little surprise for his current fans thatKanye West Is not afraid to speak his mind, more than a decade ago, the rendering of rapper to tell how big titles are made. During a 2005 Telethon for the benefit of the victims of Hurricane Katrina,Kanye first jaws down in the middle of a segment along ostensibly scripted comicMike Myers. West while looking straight in the camera, then says U.S.President George W. Bush that he does not care about blacks. Moments later, the camera cut to an imperturbableChris TuckerBut not before myers exhaled a sound breath, obviously just as surprised by the moment that the viewers without distrusting the program.
4 The Challenger Exploded Space Shuttle
On January 28, 1986, all eyes were on Cape Canaveral, Florida, NASA launched the Challenger Space Shuttle. The national mission broadcast on CNN-has received broad media coverage in the previous months due to the presence on boardChrista McAuliffe, Who would be the first teacher to send inspare. Hope quickly turned to the horror, however, that the ship caught fire, disintegrate 73 seconds in its flight and leading to the death of seven members on board.
5 The collapse of the second twin tower
September 11, 2001, is one day engraved in the memory of all Americans. Apart from the pure atrocity of the attack, images of the collapse of the second round have been broadcast on live television in real time for the whole nation to witness.
6 Janet Jackson dysfunction wardrobe
TheSuper Bowl is perpetually the most watched TV program in America. It was quite a shock, then, when the Americans of all ages were more than they negotiated during half the performance of the 2004 championship match. At the end of a musical ensemble putting in starJustin Timberlake andJanet Jackson, The old in what appeared to be a choreographed movement off a part of Jackson's high leather, revealing his public right nipple everywhere. While the moment lasted in a total of less than a second, it certainly did not have been forgotten in the 14 years since the shocking event took place.
7 1989 San Francisco earthquake
The earthquakes in California are not so rare, but it's not every day that we arrive at live television. In the period preceding the match 3 of the World Series 1989 between San Francisco and Oakland, SpeakersBob Costas andTim McCarverwere in the middle of the pre-game to provide an analysis when the television flow suddenly cut. Strangely, even after the public had lost the image, McCarver's voice could be heard "we are going to have an earthquake. The two speakers were finally healthy and sound, and the series resumed the game shortly after, but to the public the time could not be blamed for the worst.
8 Albolt
On July 20, 1969, hundreds of millions of people around the world looked likeNeil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon. According to CNN, the ABC, NBC, CBS broadcast networks andspent A combined sum of $ 12 million to cover the event, which ultimately be seen by about 600 million people around the world.
9 WACO Engraving
After an armed iron arm of 51 days with theDavid Koresh-LED BRANCH DAVIDIAN CULT, FBI agents decided to invade the group compound in Waco, Texas, April 19, 1993. During a live television program, the members of the housing of the structure of the structure. worship caught fire. The spectators looked like the building and its inhabitants were swallowed, finally leading to the death of seventy-six members, including Koresh. To date, speculation remains to be determined who has started the fire seen throughout the country.
10 The death of Dale Earnhardt
In the last pilot tour the most popular star event of 2001 Daytona 500 NascarDale Earnhardt Has been involved in an accident that sent his vehicle into the retaining wall. The 49-year-old driver died on the front of a crowd of thousands, with millions more on live television on research.
11 Jump Couch Tom Cruise
In 2005,Tom Cruise was still known to be a successful actor. The shot he will withdraw this year in front of a live TV audience onOprah, However, would change all that. During an interview to promote his next movie,War of the Worlds, Cruise sprung from his relationship with the new girlfriendKatie HolmesAnd generally acted as an excited twelve-year-old, whose fist pumping, imaginary bowling, and, the most memorable, jump on the couch.Oprah She has the best when she said Cruise-moments before her decision standing on a furniture intended exclusively for sitting- "You are gone. »
12 Steve Harvey Announce Fake Miss Universe
Before the Oscars ceremony crowned the bad winner,Steve Harvey did it first. Accommodation Miss Universe Contest 2015, Miss Colombia Harvey delivered the winner cheering cheers of the public. It was only after Miss Colombia (Ariadna Gutiérrez) Had the crown placed on his head than theFamily quarrel Host has ironed the scene, announcing it "must apologize. Miss Colombia, it seems, had been the firstfinalist, A Harvey position had misinterpreted as the firstglobally. (The true winner: Miss Philippines,Pia Wurtzbach.) Fortunately for Harvey, the situation has provided excellent content for an episode of his day issue, when a year later, he invited Miss Colombia herself to receive formal apology.
13 Murder of Virginia TV Crew
NewsWomanAlison Parker and his cameramanAdam WardCarried out an interview for a local news station when an old employee attacked UNSuspectingly with a firearm. Troubling, the thing took place on live television as with Alison in the middle of a quote-strong bangs are suddenly heard, with Parker's cries. As Ward drops the camera, the power is becoming a static image of a nearby window, and the shouts continue to be heard. Food eventually goes back to a newsroom, with a clearly shaken colleague saying that it is not quite sure what just happened.
14 Sinead O'Connor Rips The Pope
In 1992, a young personSinead O'Connor was reserved to make the guest musical on October 3 episodeSNL. For the occasion, she decided to make a resumption ofBob Marley's "War", while changing some of his words to reflect the tragedy of young victims of violence instead of racial inequality. During the rehearsals, she had decided to hold an image of orphan children at the end of the song to drive her point of view. When the living show came, however, she changed the image of orphan children for one of thePopeThen induced he in the faces of viewers everywhere, while urging the viewers to "fight the real enemy". In response, theDaily news reportedNBC received more than four thousand calls for protest, and O'Connor was banned from the program.
15 Reporter confuse Samuel L. Jackson for Laurence Fishburne
During a typical press junket to promote his movierobocop,Samuel L. Jackson Journalist Sam Rubin was asked about his Super Bowl advertisement. The problem was that Jackson had not appeared in an advertisement on the Super Bowl that year. Rubin, it seems, had confused Jackson withLaurence FishburneAnd a visibly irritated jackson will not let him forget it. "We do not all look like," Jackson said in Rubin: "There is more than one black man making advertisements." Even when Rubin tried to move on, Jackson refused, possibly put the nail in the coffin by saying in Rubin that all he knows he could be "surprising" he is "he has Never made McDonald or Kentucky fried chicken trade. "
16 Wendy Williams goes dressed like Lady Liberty
For a Halloween edition of his day discussion show,Wendy Williams dressed as the statue of freedom. This, however, would not be only surprised guests were treated. While announcing a next segment, Williams stopped half-sentence, his eyes suddenly opened wide and his entire body vacating violently, before collapsing abruptly on the floor. While the viewers initially thought that the incident was a Halloween tour, Williams returned after a commercial break to ensure that it was not the case. Because of his costume, she said she simply overheated. And while the paramedic paramedics were called to the scene, she finally took them and perhaps the most impressive - remained dressed as a Lady Liberty for the duration of the broadcast.
17 News helicopters are crushing by covering the font hunting
While covering a pursuit of the police in Phoenix, Arizona, two helicopters of local television stations crashed each other, reducing vehicles and killing all members on board. At the time, one of the helicopters broadcast live and viewers have heard the pilot cryingly crying "Oh, Geez" while feeding is suddenly becoming blurred and cut.
18 Balloon Boy admits it was a hoax
October 15, 2009,RichardandHeene MayumiFrom Fort Collins, Colorado, published a homemade balloon filled with helium in the atmosphere. Unfortunately, as they told the police, this balloon also organized his six-year-old son, Falcon. After a continuation by the Helicopters of the National Guard - and a search for a body after no one was found in the ball - it turned out that the boy was hiding in the attic of his parent all the time. The real twisted, however, came out during an interview with Wolf Blitzer when, in response to the request of Falcon de Blitzer, why he had not answered the calls of his parents while they searched him, the boy turned to his father and said, "You guys said that, uh, we did it to show." Richard and Mayumi were both sentenced to short prison sentences, with fines, for their role. In the incident.
19 Poker tournament stolen on the air
During the live coverage of a 2010 German poker tournament in Berlin, a player was observed - half - halfway, suddenly looking at his shoulder while the studio audience starts quickly eliminating. Screams of panic, meanwhile, fill the room, possibly leading the players themselves to leave the table. It would later make that an armed robbery would occur on the premises, with the thieves in the end with the jackpot of $ 1.36 million from the tournament. Fortunately, the diffusion later resumed this afternoon with the reconstituted jackpot and each of the burglars was apprehended in a few weeks.
20 Christine Chubbuck Suicide
Christine Chubbuck Worked as a newspaper in Florida when she told her production team that she had to read a new news before the programming of this day, an unusual demand. After covering three national stories and a shooting - the sequence of which blocked cameras returned to Chubbuck, who announced that the audience would then see the first attempt at suicide on television. The 29 years later came out a firearm and turned behind the ear. The station announced its hospitalization and later death, using a script that Chubbuck itself had written in preparation, leaving it on the press office while it died.
21 Milli vanilli lip-sync fails
Fresh of their grammed for the best new artist,Milli VanilliErase a live concert on MTV when their track "Girl you know it's true", started getting stuck, repeating the same words again and again. Panized, the duet danced for a few moments before returning quickly. While the internal audience at the time did not seem to worry about worrying - what happened, the incident revealed that the group was the synchronization of the lips, a fact that would later lead to the revelation that the Fragmented of the group does not sing one of the voices heard on their file. In response, they were stripped of their grammous and the name of the band lived in infamy since.
22 Rick Perry forgets the third agency, he would eliminate
In a debate leading to the 2012 presidential primary, then-fronierRick Perry Sought to show its diplomas to reduce costs by appointing three federal agencies that it would eliminate whether it should get the best job of the nation. Unfortunately, after named two of them, the Perry candidate appeared at a loss of words. While the other policies on stage have shouted their own recommendations, the moderator has been asked whether or not to appoint the third agency. After a little more smoking, Perry touched, admitting that he could not, and offer his answer now infamous: "Oops".
23 Randy Johnson kills a bird
Randy Johnson was one of the most difficult launchers in baseball. It must have been something of a death desire, so when a bird flew into one of his Fastball fire lights. Moments after Johnson released a height of March 21, 2001, baseball viewers were treated with a sudden explosion of feathers halfway to the host plate while the collision occurred. Unfortunately, the animal has not survived the incident and since then, fans have always tried to avoid the desire to make a word game of "henball".
24 JetBlue 292 Landing
Shortly after, JetBlue Vol 292 took off from Bob Hope airport to Burbank, California, his drivers knew something was wrong. Due to a malfunction, they could not retract the landing material and informed of the leaders of the local control tower of their situation. Shortly after, a decision was taken to try an emergency landing at Lax Airport. In the meantime, however, the news crews had had words of the situation and passengers on board watched the cover on their televisions equipped with satellite, because their destiny was discussed by anchors at the national level. The aircraft finally landed successfully under the vigilant eyes of millions of television viewers, leaving his passengers unscathed - and leaving an indelible mark on the news of the day.
25 The synchronization of the lip SNL ashlee simpson fails
In 2004,Ashlee simpson was a rising pop star for songs like "pieces of me" and "boyfriend", his reputation winning a place like a musical guest on an episode ofSNL hosted byJudicial law. What caught hearings off guards, however, was that when his song started, rather than singing, the 20-year-old began to make a dance that can only be described as a "template" while his voices have played in the background. It appeared that the artist had been caught at the lip and, after a few moments of clumsiness, Simpson has staged, with his group continuing to play the rest of the song. Although it appeared at the end of the show to apologize, blame the incident on its band strips, the crystallized event in public memory - largely reported the end of its musical career.
26 Zinedine Zidane Headts-Butts opponent In the World Cup final
The FIFA World Cup is the largest soccer event and no game is larger than the final. This made it all the more shocking when, as an extension of the 2006 World Cup final between France and Italy,Zinedine Zidane"One of the biggest stars in France - suddenly at the head of an Italian player, dropping them down. Zidane, in his last match as a player in his nation, would be ejected for unprecedented move and Italy would benefit from penalty.
27 Kanye West Interrupts Taylor Swift at the VMA
During his acceptance speech for the "video of the year" of MTVTaylor Swift had his microphone removed by a Kanye West sunglasses. He made him tell him that while he was happy for her and let her finish, he felt the need to emphasize thatBeyonce-AUCHER The candidate had one of the best music videos, not just the year, butall time. After making the announcement, and pointing directly to Beyoncé herself, then sitting at the front, in West shrugged and handed the microphone to SWIFT, who was sheltered while the hearing was recoiled to the west with jeers. Years later, the West would refer to the incident in a song, saying that his monksters had made famous quickly.
28 The family interrupts the very serious BBC maintenance of the Father
Robert Kelly, a professor of political science and an expert on Korean relations, often gives interviews from his apartment in Busan. When it does, it generally locks the door to its study to prevent any unwanted agitation of its two young children. During an interview with the BBC, however, Kelly forgot to bar the hatch and, while the very serious man discusses the South Korean politics, they come to burst into the room, trying to attract attention of their father. Kelly, however, remains confronted with the camera, facing the stone, apologizing for the concussion. Shortly after, his wife has just run heroically in the background, tearing young as Kelly begins to break a smile.
29 JFK assassination
November 22, 1963,John F. Kennedy and his wifeJacquelineTravement by presidential switching through Dallas, Texas. What was supposed to be a celebration campaign stops in Kennedy's re-election tour quickly turned into tragedy when the president was struck by gunshots. The tour crewed incident has become one of the most emblematic and dissected videos of all time, theorists at this day still posing their own hypothesis as to what happened exactly that day.
30 Madonna and Britney Kiss
After opening the 2003 MTV VMM with a performance alongsideChristina Aguilera,Britney Spears, andMadonna Taken a moment to kiss on the stage at the "ooh" and "Ah" of a music room of the city of radio sold. Live coverage, meanwhile, coupe immediately to Justin Timberlake-Spears' then Boyfriend-who seems confused. Then Madonna locked up the lips with Aguilera too, but the cameras were too late to record everything, making the first kiss the title. Fifteen years later, the craziest part could be exactly how crazy the act was.