Hot Microphone Nabs Sainsbury CEO Singing ‘We're in the Money’

• April 30 2018
• Craig Giammona

Beware the hot microphone.

Beware the hot microphone.

That’s the lesson for Mike Coupe after the chief executive officer of U.K. grocer J Sainsbury Plc was caught singing “We’re in the Money,” on camera as he prepared for a television interview.

The gaffe, covered widely in the British media, came after the news that Sainsbury will acquire Walmart Inc.’s Asda in a $10 billion deal.

Coupe apologized and said it was an “unguarded moment trying to compose myself before a TV interview,” according to U.K. press reports.

“It was an unfortunate choice of song, from the musical ‘42nd Street’ which I saw last year and I apologize if I have offended anyone,” Coupe said in the statement.