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Clearly Drinks’ chief financial officer Claire Connelly has found herself at the centre of a comedic social media post (Picture: BBC)

A guest on BBC News has unintentionally become the hot topic on social media after her job title created quite the caption.

Claire Connelly, the chief financial officer of Sunderland based bottling company Clearly Drinks, was being interviewed for a segment this week.

The caption simply stated who she was and what she did, but Amy Van Gar clearly had a laugh when she noticed the ‘Clearly Drinks’ attached to Claire’s name and shared a post online that has now attracted more than 22,000 likes.

‘Well now, that’s not a very nice thing to say about someone, BBC News,’ she wrote, also sharing a screenshot of Claire on the news.

Although Clearly Drinks is a company that has been bottling in the North East for over 130 years, people jumped on the bandwagon to throw their support behind Claire.

‘After the last few years, who can blame her?’ one person wrote.

Another pointed out that the cost of living crisis might have been the final straw.

‘Hardly surprising with the economy how it is,’ they added, while someone else said ‘it’s been a tough few weeks for all of us. Can we really blame her?’

Another Twitter user wrote that she ‘should be protected at all costs’.

Meanwhile someone else said they were now considering including ‘clearly drinks’ on their gravestone.

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But it’s not the first, and likely won’t be the last, time members of the public have found themselves teased after some unfortunate news captioning.

News captions can sometimes go astray (Picture: Claire McGine/ Twitter and BBC)

Spare a thought for Helen Dewdney, a consumer expert for The Complaining Cow.

Or Russell Hobby, who was probably hoping his title wasn’t cut down for this very reason.

Clearly Drinks was contacted for comment by Metro.co.uk

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