Frozen Peston turns the air blue over BBC

BBC business editor Robert Peston has criticised the corporation for making him look like "a stuttering idiot" during his first broadcast.

Peston said he was made to stand in the cold without a coat on his first day, affecting his performance.

He said: "I thought, f**k the BBC!"

He moved into broadcast journalism in 2006. He told the Big Issue magazine that he had been told to remove his coat in -10C on Budget Day because "my very fashionable leather coat made me look like a Nazi".

He said: "So I froze. I could barely speak. And the next day all the diary comments in the papers were about what a stuttering idiot I was. I thought, f**k the BBC, they could have protected me from this." He has since apologised on Twitter.