ITV News viewers have raised concerns tonight after a presenter seemed to stumble over his words and struggle to read the news bulletins.
Rageh Omaar, 56, the ITV News International Affairs Editor was rounding up the top stories of the day on the News at Ten show when he suddenly becomes incoherent while live on air.
ITV+1 later pulled the programme from its re-runs, as a message on screen said: ‘We’ll be back soon. We’re temporarily unable to bring you our +1 service.
‘We will resume shortly.’
Rageh Omaar, 56, the ITV News International Affairs Editor was rounding up the top stories of the day on the News at 10 show when he suddenly becomes incoherent while live on air
ITV+1 later pulled the programme from its re-runs. A message on screen said: ‘We’ll be back soon. We’re temporarily unable to bring you our +1 service’
In the video you see Mr Omaar appear to become shaky and cannot ‘get his words out’ when discussing a segment on weekend nightlife.
Viewers were quick to raise their concerns on social media with one user saying: ‘I hope he is ok and nothing seriosuly wrong.’
Another said: ‘What happened to him, is he ok & why didn’t they take him off air?’
While a third said: ‘I thought he was just having problems with the auto cue but I hope he’s feeling better.’
ITV News have been approached for comment.
Mr Omaar, a Somali-born British journalist joined ITV News as a special correspondent and presenter in January 2013, reporting on a broad range of news stories, as well as producing special in-depth reports from all around the UK and abroad.
Before being promoted to International Affairs Editor for ITV News in 2014.
Mr Omaar, a Somali-born British journalist joined ITV News in 2013 and became their International Affairs Editor in 2014
He won numerous awards for his exceptional journalism during his time reporting in the middle east, including a Peabody Award for his work in Sudan
He rose to global prominance through his work as a foreign correspondent for the BBC during the invasion of Iraq and the fall of Baghdad in 2003.
He won numerous awards for his exceptional journalism during this time, including a Peabody Award for his reports for the BBC from Darfur and a BAFTA for the BBC’s coverage of the invasion of Afghanistan in which he was the only western TV journalist to report from inside Taliban-held Kabul.
He also worked at Al Jazeera English from 2006-2010, where he presented the nightly weekday documentary series Witness, serving as a Middle Eastern correspondent for its London Division.
Just this month the father-of-three found himself in hot water with some football fans over comments he made about the Premier League title race.
A self-professed Arsenal fan, Mr Omaar hilariously said: ‘To sport now and the tussle for the Premier League title is still as close as anything after Liverpool returned to the top of the table.
‘They beat bottom club Sheffield United 3-1. Alexis Mac Allister got the goal that turned the game, so Liverpool are, regrettably, two points clear of Arsenal.’
