{"id":231419,"date":"2025-10-22T02:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T02:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/231419\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T02:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T02:52:08","slug":"carson-daly-on-jumbling-leonardo-dicaprios-name-on-live-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/231419\/","title":{"rendered":"Carson Daly on Jumbling Leonardo DiCaprio\u2019s Name on Live TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The one request <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/carson_daly\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carson Daly<\/a> may have is that he forgets the live TV mistake that continues to weigh on him.<\/p>\n<p>While discussing past on-air blunders with his fellow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/today\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Today<\/a> anchors Savannah Guthrie and Craig Melvin, as well as guest co-host Andy Cohen, the Total Request Live alum admitted he once struggled to deliver an Oscar-winning actor\u2019s name during a live broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of my big snafus was reading a story\u2014when I was new here, too,\u201d Carson explained during the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/5YXyaZkMfzs?si=l1uOITVs3282mnB9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oct. 20 episode<\/a> of the NBC morning show. \u201cI wasn&#8217;t used to the teleprompter, and I said\u2014the story was about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/leonardo_dicaprio\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leonardo [DiCaprio]<\/a>\u2014and I said \u2018Leonardo Di-crap-io.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Carson has largely avoided other teleprompter mix-ups since making his Today debut in 2013, he certainly hasn\u2019t forgotten his early mistake.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo this day,\u201d he continued, \u201cwhen I see Leonardo&#8217;s name in the prompter, my heartbeat starts to go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the Voice host\u2019s memorable mishap almost never happened, as Leonardo recently revealed he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1422954\/leonardo-dicaprio-almost-went-by-this-name\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nearly changed his name<\/a> early on in his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The one request Carson Daly may have is that he forgets the live TV mistake that continues to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-231419","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}