The BBC is to be sued by a man it wrongly interviewed in a now-viral internet clip.
Guy Goma, who was wrongly interviewed live on air by the BBC in 2006, is to sue the broadcasterGuy Goma, who turned up at the broadcaster's headquarters for a job interview in 2006, was mistakingly put live on air in an interview about internetThe man has since become an internet sensation with millions having viewed the clip on YouTube over the years.He had been mistaken for technology journalist Guy Kewney who had been booked to talk about a legal dispute.
The hosts said that the lack of payment seemed"incredibly unfair" given how many times the clip was viewed.He told the makeup artists: “Excuse me, I don’t need that, I just came for the job interview, I don’t need make-up.”After the interview, he told the BBC it had interviewed the wrong person but he did not hear from the broadcaster “for a week”, missed the job interview and did not get the position.
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