Lively toddler steals show on lunchtime news
TV NEWS anchor Alastair Stewart was upstaged by a two-year-old yesterday during a hilarious live broadcast.
The presenter managed to keep his cool as Iris Wronka stole the show during ITV’s lunchtime bulletin.
And as the youngster ran around, jumped up and down and clambered up on his desk, he calmly introduced her to viewers, saying, “There right at the front of my desk, the delicious Iris…who will do whatever she chooses to do for the next couple of minutes”.
Father-of- four Stewart, 65, was interviewing Iris’s mother Lucy in a piece about diagnosing milk allergies in babies, when Iris took centre stage. As he talked to Lucy and her little boy George, four, blonde-haired Iris crawled across the desk in her summer dress and red sandals, bobbing in and out of camera shot.
At one point, he even asked the impeccably behaved George about his younger sister, saying: “And what’s she like? …who’s now on the desk?”
Having managed to contain his laughter, the veteran newscaster caved into a giggle at the end, holding Iris back and telling her gently: “You stay right where you are.” At the end of the segment, he joked: “Mary Nightingale, I think, will have a more peaceful time at 6.30. From all of us, a very good afternoon to you.”
He later shakes hands with Lucy and George but turns to high-five Iris as her mother laughs and puts her hand over her mouth.
OF LATE, news programmes have had few laughs but when Alastair Stewart’s ITV Lunchtime News bulletin was interrupted by a riotous toddler, nobody could keep a straight face. What a tonic.