Sarah Harris almost shot herself in the face with a nailgun. Awks. Source: YouTube

And now they’ve been kind enough to share those moments they’d rather forget with news.com.au:

Dave Hughes — currently touring his new live show PUMPED

I did stand up on a live tonight show on Channel 9 called IMT back in 1997.

It was only my second time on TV, and my last joke was, ‘I go into 7/11’s and buy a box of tampons just so the dude behind the counter thinks I’ve got a girlfriend.’

The joke didn’t fire and I walked off wondering why and a producer, holding my script, said, ‘Do you realise you said boyfriend and not girlfriend at the end of that joke?’

I was mortified. My mother rang me up and said, ‘Dave it’s OK if you’re gay.’

The incident quickly became part of my act, so despite the embarrassment, all’s well that ends with me getting more material.”

Sarah Harris — Co-host of Studio 10:

“Almost shooting myself in the face with a nail gun definitely has to go down as an embarrassing moment. And thanks to YouTube it’ll live on the internet forever.

“Guess I’ll never be asked to host a home renovation show.”

Maz Compton — Hit 104.1 2DayFM breakfast co-host

“You know when a bit of spit accidentally flies out of your mouth and lands on someone and you’re both pretty sure that you saw it happen but you just ignore it and continue the conversation so it doesn’t become awkward?

Well this didn’t happen with Jonah Hill. He stopped me in the middle of my very next word and was like, ‘Did you just spit on me?’

And I was like, ‘Um no I didn’t, did I?’

And was like, ‘Yeah dude, you just spat on me,’ and then we both cracked up laughing.”

Ash London — Today’s Hit network Shazam Top 20 co-host (7-10pm weeknights)

“I once had to do a quick live cross for The Project on New Year’s Day.

It was a glorious sunny afternoon and I was encouraging everyone to get down to the beach and have a frosty fruit in the sunshine, which is how I decided to finish up the cross.

Unfortunately my frosty fruit had melted so I had to do a quick ‘in and out of my mouth’ motion in order to suck up all the melting ice.

It didn’t look ladylike, and my twitter got SLAMMED by creepy dudes and hormonal teenage boys. Mega awks.”

Joe Hildebrand — co-host of Studio 10:

“Thanks to the tireless work of the Studio 10 producers, I embarrass myself on national television every day.

“Still, it’s hard to go past doing the nude towel dance with Jono Coleman. It featured an incredibly delicate move in which unless you caught the towel at just the right moment you exposed the whole viewing audience to full frontal nudity.

“Needless to say I didn’t catch it.”

Those poor towels. Source: YouTube

Larry Emdur — Co-host of The Morning Show on Channel 7:

“I’m a huge fan of Mark Wahlberg, I love all his movies and was really excited to finally have the chance to meet him and interview him.

“But a few minutes into the chat, he pretty much looked like he was falling asleep. He was super jet lagged and on the very last leg of a global junket.

“I had eight minutes for the interview but called it quits after six minutes, saying, ‘I’m gonna leave now and let you have a two minute sleep before the next interview’.

“I am very open to the possibility it was my questions that were boring him to sleep.”

David “Kochie” Koch — Co-host of Sunrise on Channel 7:

“One day after the show, I had a text message from my wife Lib saying, ‘How dare you!’

“I tend to overshare a lot on Sunrise, so much so I had no idea what I had said or done wrong.

“I tried to call her and she hung up on me. I then sent flowers and waited outside our house until they were delivered … so it would be safe to go in.”

David Campbell — Co-host of Mornings on Channel 9:

“I do live morning television, so to be honest, there are embarrassing moments I share with Sonia Kruger every single day on Mornings!

I did have a particularly embarrassing moment a few days ago when I was on The Grill on

the Today show, chatting to Karl Stefanovic about my paunch.

I went to look down at my tummy and the director yelled from off camera, ‘Your fly’s undone!’

Sure enough it was and I’d done the whole segment that way.

Hopefully that clip doesn’t ever get used in a career montage.”

Jules Lund — Co-host of Scoopla on Today’s Hit network (6-7pm weeknights):

“As if appearing on Torvill & Dean’s Dancing On Ice wasn’t embarrassing enough, but one night it got worse.

“As a bit of fun, I wore a flamboyant spandex outfit so revealing that I had to wear a cricket box. Which meant I had to wear underwear to hold the box. BUT there was a window down the side of my costume, forcing me to wear a skin colour G-string.

“It gets worse.

“In rehearsal I did a big belly-slide, and soaked my entire outfit. Thankfully I had enough time to dry it (before the show). But as I stood behind the curtain, I looked down, and just as my name was called I realised that I hadn’t dried my G-string. It created a wet patch so cringe-worthy that a part of me died inside.”

If only this shot was front-on. Source: Supplied

Mark Beretta — Presenter on Sunrise on Channel 7:

“When I did the salsa on Dancing with the Stars, I totally forgot the choreography and had to wing it.

“I thought I got away with it but then Todd McKenney called the performance hideous.”

Natalie Barr — Presenter on Sunrise on Channel 7:

“I’ve just had the pleasure of one of my most embarrassing moments resurfacing!

“It was an interview I was attempting to do with Matty Johns the morning after Newcastle had won the 1997 NRL Grand Final.

“Matty was still ‘very happy’, shall we say, and said the team’s victory was ‘as good as Lego’.

“I ploughed on regardless but that was as good as it got.”

Scott Tweedy — Host of The Loop on Eleven:

“I had to fill in for Dr Chris Brown on The Living Room while he was doing I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here! and Amanda, Barry and Miguel totally stitched me up.

“As if having to wear a skin tight bright orange morph suit that didn’t leave much for the imagination wasn’t bad enough, Amanda Keller then decided to paint me from head to toe in honey — oozing it on with a paint brush onto every part of my body. Yes, EVERY part, with extreme close up shots included.”

Tom Gleeson — Appearing on The Weekly with Charlie Pickering on the ABC:

“I did stand up for the first time on TV for ABC’s Recovery hosted by Dylan Lewis.

“I only found out when I got there, they had me standing in a graveyard and behind me was a sign saying, ‘The Death Slot’.

“It was live to air at 9am in the morning. Easy gig.”

Sam Armytage — Co-host of Sunrise on Channel 7:

“On my birthday a couple of years ago, Sunrise organised for five strippers dressed as firemen to jump out of a giant cake. Strippers really freak me out!”

Sam didn’t know where to look. Source: Supplied