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It’s a strange day when you could say that Richard Gere, Cher and “Great British Bake Off” judge Prue Leith have something in common other than being famous.

This week, the three personalities all appeared separately on morning news programs, and they all dropped some pretty major profanity on live TV.

And honestly, you can’t help but laugh at how unhinged things have become.

Leith appeared on “Live with Kelly and Mark” on Thursday and everything seemed pretty relaxed during a cooking segment when the show’s married co-hosts, Kelly Ripa and Mark Conseulos, chatted with Leith about an experience she had with the late Queen Elizabeth II.

Ripa then asked Leith how King Charles drinks his tea.

The baking pro hesitated for a moment and said, “Maybe I can’t say this on morning television,” but Ripa stepped in to encourage her to “say whatever you want.”

Encouraged, Leith said that the King of England’s tea preference is “hippie s…”, which of course elicited shocked laughter from Ripa and Consuelos.

A day earlier, Gere appeared on “Today” to discuss his new show “The Agency” and mimicked a gesture he does on the show.

That gesture was flipping the bird, which was blurred on air before “Today” host Savannah Guthrie admonished him for “making an obscene gesture on this family morning show.”

“I’m beeping you!” Guthrie said, smacking Gere with her pages of notes.

And if that wasn’t enough, Cher appeared on “Today” earlier this week in a sit-down with the show’s host Hoda Kotb.

When asked to share something “I love Lucy” star Lucille Ball once told her, Cher warned Kotb that she might not be able to repeat it, but Kotb assured her that “we’ll squeak it out.”

Well, it didn’t really work out that way, because Cher dropped an f-bomb too quickly to be censored.

I bet the control room at NBC wishes they could turn back time.