While reporting from the NATO conference, Sky News anchor Deborah Haynes received an unpleasant visitor.
The 46-year-old security and defence editor was in the middle of telling viewers about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s arrival at the summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, when she was brutally stopped.
‘He’s going to participate….’ she said on Tuesday night, before coughing and sputtering.
Deborah stated, as she turned away from the camera to cough, ‘I just ate a fly.’
The unfortunate journalist, who took the gaffe in stride and smiled, turned to face the audience while clearing the, eh, fly in her throat.
She later tweeted a clip of hilarious incident and captioned the post: ‘”I just ate a fly” – the perils of recording a TV piece at night with bugs swarming around the light. #NATOsummit.’
Deborah’s Sky News colleague Adam Boulton died on the same day nearly precisely nine years ago.
Rather of trying to eject the creepy crawly, Adam consumed it mid-sentence with a painful face.
Other recent mishaps at the BBC include newsreaders not understanding they’re still on live and technical glitches that leave the studio in darkness.
Only a few days earlier, the broadcaster experienced an unpleasant technical hiccup when broadcasting President Biden’s meeting with King Charles.
The channel was showing images of Windsor Castle before the critical conference when the gorgeous vista was abruptly replaced with colourful bars and a distinct disturbance.
Not only that, but the ‘BREAKING’ banner appeared on the screen while a rolling feed showed the words: ‘Field operations, Sky News, London.’
As the camera turned back to an interviewee, a reporter said: ‘Oops! We’ve lost the picture but there we go!’
Viewers were left giggling at the error, with one writing: ‘Still find it funny when BBCNews use SkyNews feed, or vice versa. Even more funny when the feed goes down.’
Source My Celebrity Life.
