A Spanish news anchor was caught red-handed cheating on his girlfriend, who happens to be a television star, when a semi-naked woman walked into his shot as he filmed a live segment from home.

The New York Post reported that Alfonso Merlos, 41, was hosting the news show Estado de Alarma (“State of Alarm”) from home amidst the COVID-19 lockdown when viewers saw a scantily-clad woman walk into the shot, much to their surprise. Fans immediately noticed that the woman was not Merlos’ girlfriend Marta López, a former star of the “Big Brother” reality show.

Check out the video for yourself here.

A media firestorm immediately ensued, with Merlos trying to weather it by staying silent for two days. When it didn’t die down, he finally apologized to López during an appearance on the “Ana Rosa” news show.

“If you think that my attitude has not been correct or that there are things that I have not done well, I have no problem asking for forgiveness, although my goal was not to harm someone else,” he said to her.

While Merlos claimed that he had broken up with López before the at-home segment was filmed, she alleged that he was lying and that they were very much together at the time. She added that she found the incident to be both “unpleasant” and “shameful.”

As for the scantily-clad woman, she has been identified as journalist Alexia Rivas, who said that she had been dating Merlos for weeks at the time.

“I didn’t get into a relationship, he told me he was single,” she said, according to The Sun. “We have been [seeing each other] three weeks.”

Daily Mail reported that another outlet started that López and Merlos had been spending four days apart at the time this segment was filmed because they had gotten into an argument.

“I had been mad at Alfonso for four days. He didn’t want me to do something that affected my family. I did it, and he got mad. We argue,” she said.

The video has since gone viral all over the globe, as social media users everywhere are equally as stunned by it as Spanish viewers were.