Mone embarrassed over TV hosting debut

Michelle Mone has admitted that she feels mortified after "screwing up" her debut as a TV host.

The Ultimo bra tycoon, who regularly appears as a panellist on The Apprentice: You're Fired, has agreed to front Scottish topical show The Hour on STV all week.

On her first day, Mone reportedly arrived half an hour late after being stuck in traffic. She was then unable to read the autocue because she had forgotten her contact lenses and could not hear the show's gallery producers because she lost her earpiece.

"Everything that could have gone wrong did go wrong," Mone told the Daily Record. "First of all I couldn't see because I forgot my contacts. Then I couldn't hear because my earpiece kept popping out.

"I was given a line about a cowboy place in Aberdeen and I was to say 'in the bar' and I said 'in the bra' so I did muck up that one. Everybody said it was fine but I just felt I really screwed up."

She added: "I felt like a girl in a new job - it was like the first day at school."

Mone has been presenting the nightly programme with regular host Stephen Jardine.