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On BBC Breakfast, Naga Munchetty mocked co-host Rav Wilding for reportedly not knowing how to operate a washing machine, based on a study showing 62 percent of people lack such knowledge. The segment included jokes about miswashed clothing and Munchetty's impending move from BBC Breakfast to Radio 5 Live amid controversy over alleged bullying.
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Story summary
On BBC Breakfast, presenter Naga Munchetty mocked her colleague Rav Wilding from BBC Radio 5 Live after he admitted not knowing how to use a washing machine. The discussion was prompted by a study revealing that 62% of people are unsure about operating their appliances correctly. During the segment, Munchetty sarcastically offered to demonstrate proper washing machine usage to Wilding, quipping, "Do you want to come in and join us for the item?" to which she replied dryly: "If he doesn't know by now, I don't think three minutes is going to help." This incident highlighted a lighthearted moment on live television but also underscored public confusion about basic household appliance functions.
Written for “BBC Presenter Criticized” on 2026-09-17,
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Munchetty and her co-host Charlie Stayt were chatting to Morning Live hosts Gethin Jones and Michelle Ackerley about what was coming up on the show later in the day.
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Jones revealed they would be discussing a recent study, which found that 62 per cent of people don’t know “how to work a washing machine”.
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cent → reveal → machine
He then pointed out that their co-presenter Wilding was one of those people.
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Wilding → point → people
Munchetty chipped in to remark: “I mean, Rav, that is nothing to be proud of.
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that → chip → ?
Wilding burst out laughing and spread his hands, protesting: “It's the compartments - where do things go?
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things → burst → hands
Stayt interjected, “Rav, let me help you.
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me → interject → you
The washing goes in the...” and Munchetty added, “The round bit,” miming the shape of the washing machine.
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Munchetty → go → machine
She went on sarcastically: “It goes in the big round bit.
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It → go → bit
And then you have the little square window that you can pour some stuff in.
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you → have → stuff
Or there's a little ball, you can throw it in.”
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you → be → it
Ackerley quipped, “Do you want to come in, Naga, and join us for the item?” to which she replied in a deadpan tone: “If he doesn't know by now, I don't think three minutes is going to help.”
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Jones then joked that Wilding had washed the T-shirt of TV carpenter Rob Bent, who was on the show as a guest.
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”Look how that turned out!” Jones quipped, pointing out that Bent’s T-shirt was a brown colour.
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shirt → look → ?
Munchetty laughed, declaring: “It was white to begin with!”
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She announced in July that she is quitting BBC Breakfast after 17 years on the show and moving to BBC Radio 5 Live in January.
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The broadcaster was accused of bullying a female colleague and making a “wildly unprofessional” off-air sex joke that left a co-worker “humiliated”.
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The investigation has since been “quietly closed”, The Sun reported.
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There is reportedly uproar over the fact that she will be allowed to present three days in the Salford studio near Manchester, and two days a week from London near her Hertfordshire home.
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Her prospective co-presenter will be expected to do five days a week in Salford.
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presenter → expect → Salford
“We reject any suggestion that different standards have been applied in this instance.”
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