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Did you catch Brian Ormond's extremely awkward Lottery fail?

Oh ground, please swallow us up.

Aug 21st 2014, 8:05 AM 10,361 Views 9 Comments

OH, WE HAVEN’T felt this much live television-induced second hand embarrassment since Aengus-gate.

Yesterday evening, Brian Ormond had a bit of a disaster on RTÉ’s National Lottery broadcast.

He started going on about a stage B, and yeah, we’ve no idea, take a look.

Source: Aidan Coughlan/YouTube

OH GOD.

Stop the music, put Brian out of his misery. Those are the eyes of a man screaming internally.

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Naturally, people were confused.

Think Brian Ormond just had a melt down on the lotto #lotto
— paddy maher (@paddymaher) August 20, 2014

Source: paddy maher/Twitter

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I think android Brian Ormond just short circuited. #RTE
— Ennui Ó Cuilinn (@HarryGolightly_) August 20, 2014

Source: Ennui Ó Cuilinn/Twitter

Brian himself took to Twitter shortly after to reassure disturbed viewers.

No I didn't see a ghost on lotto tonight! When your told to stop ya gotta stop! 😝 can't beat live tv!
— Brian Ormond (@brianormond79) August 20, 2014

Source: Brian Ormond/Twitter

Well thank God for that.

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Did you catch Brian Ormond's extremely awkward Lottery fail?