Nothing Sums Up Stuffy British Embarrassment Like This BBC Reporter Having To Explain A Couple Boinking

BBC presenter Dan Walker was giving an Olympics update from a beach in Rio this week when commenters on social media happened to notice two people in a, shall we say, compromising position in the background. It seems like that Olympic condom initiative is really going great! Walker was quick to assure viewers watching at home that what they were seeing was not really what they were seeing, in perfect British stuffy embarrassed giggly horror:

And for those asking what’s going on in the background on social media right now, we’re not gonna zoom in, but rest assured it’s not– it’s not that. It’s just a hug. There’s a bit of– they’re reading a book! Apparently they are reading a book. They’re reading a book… in a strange pose. It’s merely a book. We’ll find out what the book is maybe, a little bit later on. So! We’re not gonna go any closer to that, then.

Yeah! That’s the ticket! A book! Nice save. I bet I can guess what book they’re reading. At any rate, that’s Dan Walker’s story, and that’s the one he’s sticking to, as he later doubled down on Twitter:

“They were reading a book!” should definitely be engraved on his tombstone one day.