10 times people were proved spectacularly wrong on live television

On Thursday night former Liberal Democrat leader Lord Ashdown vowed to eat his hat if a gloomy exit poll about his party's chances in the general election was proved right.

Alas, it was actually over-optimistic about the number of seats the oarty would retain, and Ashdown eventually agreed to eat a hat made out of chocolate.

Here are some other examples of people being proved very, very wrong on live television.

Here are 10 of the best:

1. Michael Fish's last weather forecast before the Great Storm of 1987

2. "You're a Muslim, so why did you write a book about Jesus?"

Academic and author Reza Aslan thoroughly debunked Fox News presenter Lauren Green after she questioned edentials. "Well, to be clear I am a scholar of religions, with four degrees including one in the new testament and fluency in biblical Greek, who has been studying the origins of Christianity for two decades..."

3. This man who thought he could break the world record for smashing coconuts with his bare hands

4. "Have you ever been to Iraq, ma'am?"

This pundit did not realise he was speaking to Shoshana Johnson, who spent nearly a month in captivity in Iraq as one of the US military's first female prisoners of war.

5. Katie Hopkins: "I don't like children named after geographic locations."

Philip Schofield: "Your child is called India...?"

Katie Hopkins: ....

6. When a jogger claimed snow was "the perfect texture for running".

She proved herself wrong immediately.

7. This shopping presenters who was unsure about whether the Moon is "a planet or a star".

8. We can all quite clearly see that this is not a horse

Would you buy anything off this man?

9. Guest: "Let me show you, you can't knock it over"

Host: knocks it over

10. TV presenter mistakes Samuel L Jackson for Laurence Fishburne

"We might be black and famous but we all don't look alike!"

What are your favourite examples of people being proved wrong on live television? Let us know in the comments below...

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