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Alastair Stewart upstaged by toddler on afternoon news

A discussion on milk allergies went off script during an ITV news broadcast when a little girl started walking round newsreader Alastair Stewart’s desk before climbing on to it.

Stewart was conducting an interview with Lucy Wronka and her two children, Iris and George, when Iris decided she could be still no more. Seeing the toddler ambling about the studio, Stewart remarked: “[She] will do whatever she chooses to do for the next couple of minutes,” before continuing the interview with her brother, George.

George told the newsreader about his experiences while his sister scaled the heights of the news desk during the network’s lunchtime bulletin. She then found her head creeping into shot as her mother, trying to keep a straight face, discussed new guidelines surrounding testing babies for milk allergies.

Finishing the segment, with Iris now on all fours over his papers, 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.”

Viewers later expressed their joy at the scene on Twitter. One viewer tweeted

Paul Brand, ITV News’s political correspondent, tweeted:

ITV News’s royal editor, Chris Ship, tweeted:

The BBC’s Nick Robinson recounted his own studio experience

BBC News correspondent Ross Hawkins wrote: “Tremendous chaos - @alstewitn being thoroughly upstaged by kids in his studio.”