Faux Pas
I just discovered that the daughter of one of my close friends was responsible for the wrong photo of Lennie Henry on ITV recently.
I've known her since she was a few years old. She was a TV journalist here in Tasmania and went to work in London a few years ago for the ITV news. She was doing a story on Lennie Henry getting a knighthood and she could only find an old photo (labelled Lennie Henry) that they were allowed to use on the news and unfortunately it turned out to be Ainslie Lamb. They had thousands of calls, some quite nasty about all blacks looking alike. Her boss assured her that anyone could have made the same mistake but apparently it was in all the UK papers!
She was totally mortified but it was a genuine mistake and she was quite upset by some of the calls she received which accused her of being racist. Lennie and Ainslie were probably just amused by it.