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Tyne Tees Spews; Excuse the awful pun...
Topic Started: Aug 8 2007, 12:21 PM (481 Views)
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Just read this on The Guardian website. Did anyone here witness this?

TV newsreader battles on while covertly being sick

Martin Wainwright
Wednesday August 8, 2007

Guardian

Television hasn't had a particularly heroic time recently, but a regional news presenter has just done his best to put that right.
In the spirit of the boy who stayed at his post on the burning deck, anchorman Kenny Toal stuck with reading his bulletin while covertly being sick in a wastepaper bin during intervening film clips.

Gripped with food-poisoning spasms just before the half-hour evening show North East Tonight, broadcast from Newcastle upon Tyne, 34-year-old Toal decided at the last minute to go ahead.

Watched by mesmerised control room staff, he grabbed the bin during the final countdown, retched, stuffed it under his desk and then faced viewers with his usual aplomb.

Helped by co-presenter Pam Royle, who kept her composure as more bins were whisked in and out during the programme, Toal managed to survive until the sports section at the end of the bulletin. Only a death-mask pallor to his normally cheery face, which studio makeup failed to hide, alerted some of the audience to the fact that things were not going quite as normal.

The acting head of news at ITV Tyne Tees, Andrew Friend, said staff had wondered what was coming as the bulletin progressed. He said: "Kenny seemed to pull round as we went on air and he gave us the thumbs-up. But as we continued, it became clear that he was struggling."

After carrying out one bin himself, Mr Friend turned back to the monitor and realised that on-air vomiting was a real possibility. He said: "Things almost got even worse - Kenny was reading a script and I saw him put his hand up to his mouth. I knew then that it was getting serious".

Toal slipped out during the next film clip, leaving Ms Royle to carry on solo until the weather forecast. After recovering, he said his failure to defrost a cheese pie cooked by his mother was probably to blame. "It's never happened to me before," he said. "I was totally gutted."


Poor bugger, must have been terrible for him, but at least he tried to carry on!
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i've never seen anything like it before.

i wish i saw it for real, but i didn't.

that took dedication, plus guts in a time when the media is seriously cutting back and downsizing.
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Poor Kenny, he's a good newsreader and reporter, it's a real shame he felt so bad during a bulletin.

Mind you, I am sure there's many moments on ITV regional news that make the viewers want to vomit these days.

(Not on Tyne Tees, their regional news service is still quite decent IMO.)
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