A random woman joined the wrong Zoom meeting while it was live on The BBC

• A random woman joined a Zoom call while it was live on air on the BBC.
• BBC News host Rebecca Jones allowed the conversation to continue for almost a minute before ending the interview with her guest.

A random woman showed up in the wrong Zoom call while it was live on the BBC.

Video of a live BBC News broadcast shows host Rebecca Jones interviewing University of Essex professor Lorna Woods via Zoom call about online safety when a second woman, who was not supposed to be on the call, joined their conference room.

The conversation continued as the second woman sat quietly in her Zoom box.

After about 45 seconds of staying put, the woman walked away from her device and out of frame before she quickly returned, prompting the host to cut her guest off mid-sentence.

"Professor, I've got to interrupt, I'm afraid. Somebody else has joined the Zoom meeting," Jones said.

She then decided to "leave it there" and thanked Woods for joining the show while the guest waved hello to anyone watching.

It's unclear whether the surprise guest left the Zoom meeting at that time, but in the last clip of the Zoom, before the camera panned back to the Jones, she was still there.

NBC News reporter Matthew Mulligan said on Twitter that the guest was actually supposed to call in for a different show.