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Channel 5’s Jeremy Vine has been described as going ‘full-on Alan Partridge’ by viewers online after commenting on a video he believed to be filmed in Iran.
The 60-year-old presenter was joined by broadcaster Mike Parry and Labour MP Paulette Hamilton, to discuss the ongoing situation in Iran and the Middle East.
On Saturday, US-Israel strikes killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Iran has since carried out retaliatory attacks across the region, and the Israeli military has begun ‘broad scale strikes’ in Tehran.
In the lead-up to events, the Iranian regime had been cracking down on dissidents and thousands of protestors were killed.
During an episode of Jeremy Vine on Channel 5, the host proceeded to introduce a clip from scenes of people he believed to be in Iran, ‘doing the Trump dance’.
Shortly after the video was abruptly cut, Vine corrected himself: ‘It’s crucially not Iran, and that’s very important because if it was in Iran, they might all be killed.’
Parry responded: ‘They’d get machine-gunned, if they were doing that in Iran now.’
Vine then quickly assured viewers that he ‘really didn’t think that was in Iran’, before apologising for his mistake.
It’s been dubbed as an ‘accidental Partridge moment’, with users on X comparing the incident to toe-curlingly awkward moments created by Steve Coogan as fictional broadcaster Alan Partridge.
Responding to the account that posts these perceived blunders, Joel Cortez called it the ‘best one in ages’.
Vine had led into the video by saying: ‘We’ve gotta show you some footage here by the way, from Iran, of people dancing like Trump.’
As the clip played, he sounded less sure but continued to stick with his original assertion: ‘I believe… is this in Iran, no? It’s in Iran.’
The scenes showed a group of people dancing on the steps of a building to The Village People’s YMCA with an Israeli, Iranian, and American flag waving in the background.
US President Donald Trump has been known to dance to the 70s disco song in a particular way, moving his hips and arms in a style that has now become synonymous with the American leader.
Some Iranians in the US have been seen copying his moves while celebrating Trump for Operation Epic Fury which took out their Supreme Leader.
After laughing at the video as more people appeared in shot, Vine seemed to be receiving information from producers: ‘Ooo where is it? Where is it? It’s not Iran.’
In response to the clip on X, Gav said: ‘Anybody else think Vine is becoming more Partridge than [Richard] Madeley?’
While ZigZag wrote sarcastically: ‘Of course, everyone knows how prevalent the flying of Israeli flags is in Tehran.’
Metro has contacted Jeremy Vine on Channel 5 for comment.
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