TVNZ’s Breakfast show experienced an on-air hiccup this morning when presenter โJenny-May Clarkson โขdissolved into laughter after mispronouncing the name of a German museum, โleading to an extended, โunscripted break in programming.
Clarkson’s fitโข of giggles occurred while reporting โon Taylor Swift‘s new music video, which features imagery inspired by โขa paintingโข housed at โคthe Hessische Landesmuseum in Wiesbaden, Germany. After struggling with the museum’s name,โค Clarksonโ was visiblyโ overcome with โขlaughter, prompting theโ show to cutโ to a two-minute, unnarrated financial market update while she composedโ herself. Fellow โpresenter Matty McLean steppedโ in to deliver the weather forecast, jokingly โreferencing the situation byโข stating, “I don’t know what it’s likeโ inโ Germany at the moment, but here it’s sunny โfor mostโ of the North โคIsland.”
The incident hasโค drawn attention โคto the museum itself, which has reported โa surge in visitors โeager to โขsee the artwork that inspired swift. Museum director โฃAndreas Henning expressed delight at the unexpected publicity,telling german news agency DPA,”This is,of course,a great possibility to attract people to the museum who don’t know us yet.”โ The museum โis currently celebrating its 200th anniversary.
Museum Wiesbaden gained further โprominence in 2023 as one of seven German institutions to repatriate Mฤori and Moriori remains to New Zealand’s Te Papa museum. The incident onโฃ Breakfast occurred around 7:35 am, with Clarkson โคoffering a brief apology before the show โขcontinued with its scheduled programming.