A CLIP of an embarrassing mix up on BBC Breakfast where presenters began interviewing the wrong guest has made Everest hero Les Binns a global celebrity once again.
Proud of Barnsley award winner Les hit headlines around the world last year when he gave up his mission to climb Everest just 400 metres from the summit to save the life of a stranger.
But as presenters John Kay and Rachel Burden introduced the story, with a picture of Les on a screen behind them, they failed to realise the man sitting next to them on the sofa was bespectacled and greying professor of political science at Nottingham University Dr Todd Langman - not rugged war hero and mountaineer Les, from Manvers.
Les told the Chronicle: “I was in the green room having a chin wag with the TV chef Joe Wicks when it happened.”
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