This Morning suffers awkward blunder as chef starts cooking segment too early

THIS Morning suffered an awkward blunder today as chef Donal Skehan started his cooking segment too early - with the audio continuing to play after his video was cut.  The 34-year-old cook was seemingly too eager to tell viewers the recipe for his summer berry pavlova, starting his directions during a brief link from the studio.  During the show, Eamonn Holmes and his wife Ruth Langsford cut to Donal in his Dublin kitchen as they told fans what was coming up in the rest of the programme.  Dressed casually in a pink jumper, Donal grinned as he told Ruth: "I like BBQ-ing, I like dessert, I like it all."  Eamonn then asked the food pro if meringue was supposed to be chewy - but Donal appeared to mishear.  Instead, he got stuck in with breaking down the recipe as he told the hosts: "Yes, we have a beautiful meringue mixture to make and the beauty of this summer dessert is just how easy it is to prepare it."  He then started on the recipe, pouring the ingredients together as he explained: "So it's going to start in our bowl with a little bit of egg whites - we have four egg whites going in-"  Flustered Eamonn then interrupted, repeating "hold your horses" as he told Donal it was a "false start".  While Ruth awkwardly chuckled, Eamonn said: "I was only asking if a meringue should be chewy", with Donal playing it off by joking: "I'm just so excited!"  Eamonn continued: "Anyway, we will save that for after the competition, then it'll be Loose Women, then it'll be Donal."  More awkwardly, Donal was taken off screen while Eamonn spoke, but his audio remained live - and the confused chef could be heard asking "are we not doing it now?".  The Irish star laughed off the blunder when it was finally time for the segment, adding that he'd already completed the first steps of the recipe due to the mishap as he went over what viewers should be doing.  This isn't Donal's first live TV error, previously slicing his thumb open during an appearance on Saturday Kitchen.