TV helicopter camera catches Italian with mistress

ROME, May 26 (Reuters) A man who took his mistress to the beach made the mistake of waving to a film crew on a helicopter covering Italy's bicycle race and was discovered by his wife.

According to media reports, the man was with his younger mistress on a beach in northern Italy when the helicopter passed overhead with a crew covering the Giro d'Italia cycling classic.

The man waved, the camera zoomed in, and the couple ended up on live television.

The brother of the man's wife thought it was his sister he was seeing on television and called her on her cell phone, sure that it was she on the beach with her husband.

Instead, she was at home by herself and when her husband returned with a sun tan, he had some explaining to do.

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