presenter left fans speechless after he recalled a terrifying car-jacking ordeal he experienced as a child. During Tuesday's visit (April 15) to the London studio, the 65-year-old woke up the nation alongside his stand-in broadcaster Miriam Cates following Ellie Costello's nuptials over the weekend.

As the pair discussed the latest golfing updates with sports correspondent Paul Coyte, the dad-of-four shared one terrifying terrorist ordeal he went through as a child. In the late 1960s, the Irish presenter explained how he once got detention for being late to school because the IRA hijacked his school bus.

He told Miriam: "Did I ever tell you the story about my bus being hijacked? The terrorists came on and said, 'We're commandeering this bus for the profession of the IRA, everybody off!'

"And you think, because people were still sitting there, you just go, 'Get off, get off' and then they blew it up, that was it". Paul clarified: "This was when you were a kid, and you got told off for getting back to school late."

This isn't the first time that the broadcaster has opened up about the chilling incident. Back in 2019, the former This Morning presenter opened up about the incident on the podcast, where he revealed that men wearing balaclava's bombarded the bus and started pouring petrol on the floor.

He manage to get off the bus just in time before the bus went up in flames, but in the end he was more scared of what his headteacher was going to say. He told host Kate Thornton: "Our bus was hijacked on the Antrim Road. Ant this man wearing a balaclava came on and said, 'We are commandeering this bus for the Irish Republican Army'.

"He starts sprinkling petrol everywhere so we get off. And they throw a petrol bomb on the bus and set it on fire. So we walk the next mile and a half to school.

"We got to the college, the gate was closed and Father Walsh was standing on top of the driveway. I looked at him thinking, 'I'm dead now, I'm absolutely dead'. He looks at me and says, 'Detention. I got detention for the IRA hijacking my bus. It was my fault basically."

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