BBC Weather Presenter Upstaged By Dog’s Bowels
SUSSEX, UK: BBC weather presenter Carol Kirkwood was upstaged during a live TV report, when a dog wandered onto the beach and took care of some business.
It’s tough being a weather presenter in Britain at the best of times, but when the BBC sent Carol Kirkwood to a beach to report on the current heatwave, she couldn’t have predicted being upstaged by a canine.
As the BT website reports, her forecast on the BBC Breakfast programme was hijacked by a “weeing dog”.
The event in question took place at 8.24am in West Wittering, West Sussex.
“While Carol was regaling us with news about today’s scorcher, a dog casually wandered into frame and put something of a dampener on proceedings,” the website reports.
The sight caused an “eruption of mirth in the studio, and indeed across the land, as news of the threatening thunderstorm was thoroughly upstaged by a micturating mutt”.
As the Mail notes, when Charlie Stayt and Louise Minchin in the studio warned Kirkwood “not to turn around, the weather presenter’s wry reaction was: “Upstaged by a dog, it is the story of my life.”
The dog in question turns out to be a chocolate lab called Connie – owned by a BBC producer, BBC News reported online later.
A rather sorry looking Connie was later photographed on the BBC Breakfast Twitter feed with the message “Someone’s looking a bit guilty”.
Someone’s looking a bit guilty… pic.twitter.com/FmKK8XTUoM
— BBC Breakfast (@BBCBreakfast) July 17, 2014