By Sabah Kazi and Alasdair Glennie PUBLISHED: 15:55 EST, 3 December 2013 | UPDATED: 07:19 EST, 4 December 2013 The BBC has admitted faking key scenes in a hit nature documentary about grizzly bears. Programme makers were forced to apologise after it emerged hit BBC1 show Great Bear Stakeout deliberately misled viewers by carefully editing footage. A dramatic episode appeared to show one of the documentary's expert guides watching and commentating as a mother bear took her cubs into the ocean, before one of them drowned. In fact, the guide – Chris Morgan – was never present at the touching scene. Filmed separately, the shots of him standing by the seaside were later edited together with the original footage to make it seem he was just yards from the dangerous animals.
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Scenes showed expert just yards from touching scenes of mother and cub
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But the shots of him were filmed separately and edited into footage
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Comes two years after Frozen Planet passed off zoo-filmed scenes as 'wild' footage, and a year after Planet Earth Live was revealed as pre-recorded
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MP John Wittingdale said faking footage was 'completely unacceptable'
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