Daily Mail: 'Not sure this guy has any idea the Queen is dead...': Bizarre moment man 'on work night out' stumbles into BBC interview outside Buckingham Palace and tells reporter 'I saw something was happening so thought I would come down'

Story from Daily Mail:

This is the bizarrely funny moment a BBC correspondent interviewed a passerby 'on a work night out' who decided to head to Buckingham Palace at 2am following the death of the Queen.

News presenter Kasia Madera was outside Buckingham Palace in the early hours of Friday morning looking to speak to those still gathering around the late Queen's residence not long after her death was announced.

Members of the public have continued to gather at the palace gates this morning with tens thousands of bouquets, personal notes and candles left in her honour.

This has been the case throughout the night, with people heading to the centre of London to pay their respects at all hours since the death of Her Majesty The Queen.

And viewers were left convinced one man she came across didn't actually know the Queen had died despite being outside the royal residence, offering up a peculiar answer when asked what he was there for at such a late hour.

'Just explain why you're here, it's the middle of the night in London yet we're still gathering here,' Ms Madera asked the man.

He responded: 'I actually came home after a work event and I turned on the TV and saw you [Ms Madera] - and I thought hold on a minute, something's happening here. So I came down to see this, be a part of it.'

The presenter then says, 'I'm sure I'm not the reason why you came here,' and he quickly says, 'Not literally you, I mean this event... and realising that people were here...'

BBC's Kasia then asks, 'So you wanted to be here as well,' he says 'Yeah I did. Five minute walk, and here we are...' and an awkward silence ensues.

He adds, while gesturing towards people behind him: 'All the diversity going on which is good and interesting, and, like, beautiful really. Isn't it?'

She quickly ends the interview by thanking him and continuing with her segment elsewhere.

The clip has been shared on social media, with users on TikTok sharing their thoughts on the funny character.

One wrote: 'I'm not convinced he even knows the queen has passed. He saw a gathering and headed over there.'

Another said: 'He was clearly very drunk,' while another joked: '9am meeting with HR.'

Someone else similarly said: 'He's going to be dying this morning watching this back,' and another wrote: 'The guy that joins a queue at midnight thinking it's a nightclub.

Multiple others noted the chance Ms Madera had in picking him for an interview out of all the others gathered outside Buckingham Palace at the time: 'Out of all the people to interview,' one said.