Remember that awkward moment last week when Prime Minister Theresa May revealed the 'naughtiest' thing she'd ever done was 'run through the fields of wheat', much to the farmer's annoyance, and the whole world coughed as a ball of tumble weed blew past?

Well, you can forget crop circle and Children of the Corn theories because the PM was just caught on camera doing, quite possibly, the naughtiest thing yet.

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You guessed it, she participated in a Mexican wave.

I know right? That Theresa is a heathen.

On Monday, the PM attempted to join in with the Stade de France crowd's mexican wave during a France v England friendly, but sadly found herself a few seconds late on the motion, much to French president Emmanuel Macron and Home Secretary Amber Rudd's embarrassment, who sat alongside her.

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Of course, her badly-timed wave – much like her election result – caused an uproar of hilarity on social media.

The football gaff came hours after May and Macron gave a joint press conference, in which the French president said 'the door remains open' to the UK remaining in the EU but he wanted the negotiations to start 'as quickly as possible'.

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Yeah, you're not the only one, Emmanuel.

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