Shane was wrapping up (see what I did there) his favourite cringey moments off the telly during the year and it put me in mind of one of Pat Kenny's worst TV moments.
It was around September 2000. Pat went into the audience to talk to a girl (let's call her Mary) and her mother. The girl had some debilitating condition that left her wheelchair bound. She was also unable to speak but she had a piece of laminated card with the alphabet and numbers printed on it. Pat asked her how she was, and she slid a finger to each letter to spell her reply. She was clearly well practiced at it and she had quite a fluent exchange of a few sentences with Pat. All ok so far.
Pat then turned from her, faced the camera and said,
"Now, as you can see, Mary can't communicate with us so instead I'm going to talk to her mother..."
I know this has done the rounds before, but here's Pat on the radio in full Alan Partridge force.
*for which you probably read muppet, and you'd be right.
