BBC sport presenter Amy Irons has opened up on the shock wardrobe malfunction that almost caused disaster just SECONDS before going live on-air.
Amy, 32, has become one of Scotland’s most popular telly presenters, presenting sports bulletins on BBC’s Reporting Scotland and anchoring Sportscene.
But she’s revealed how an embarrassing moment at the very beginning of her presenting career almost led to disaster!
Amy, who also hosts her own show on Heart Scotland, previously made appearances on STV before her career took her to the BBC.
And it was over on the other channel when chaos ensued just SECONDS before she went on-air!
Sometimes not everything is as it seems on TV and that was the case when calm and collected Amy had suffered an awkward wardrobe malfunction moments before the camera started rolling.
Asked about any on-air disasters she’d dealt with, Amy told GlasGo Podcast: “Oh gosh now we’re talking!
“I remember being at STV, gosh this is now taking me back!
” I remember being at STV and it was, do you remember Live at 5? STV 2 when they set up STV Glasgow.
“I was presenting that and I remember it was early on and I hadn’t done much presenting at this point so it was a big occasion. Trip to Zara, new outfit, properly on it whereas now I’m like ‘I’ll throw on any old thing to go on the tell!’
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“But I remember this specific – I had this kind of cream, like fake leather skirt and a shirt and I was sitting on the sofa and just before you go on air, you do the beginning of the show standing up.
“So we were sitting down, maybe going through the running order, talking through the programme.
“You hear the director – ’30 to go on air’.
“I stand up – the skirt rips CLEAN. From like back down to below my bum.
“It was awful and it was just like split like that. The worst thing I was, I must have been about 22/23, and this poor camera guy in like his 40s had to run over just with gaffer tape, sticking my skirt to my buttcheeks!
“It was honestly – I was just standing there and everyone’s looking at you and we still had to go on air.
“We managed to put like three bits of tape over – just don’t turn round when you’re on the telly and getting through an hour and a half of television, they had the live set in the kitchen, the band and I was just shuffling everywhere. Just making sure not to turn round like a little penguin going from side to side!
“Honestly, I laugh at it now but I remember at the time being absolutely mortified and it was all I could think about all show.
“That was an on-air disaster.”
Amy also revealed how Rangers legend Ally McCoist helped her early on in her budding sports media career.
She revealed how she was left thinking “I can’t do this” after one of her first press conferences before a kind gesture from Coisty – then Rangers manager – helped her out massively.
Amy said: “I remember being in this press conference at Rangers, it was Ally McCoist at the time.
“I could not get a word in. It was Sky, BBC, PA. Arghh!
“By the time they’d all asked 15 questions each I was like ‘I don’t know what to ask now, what are you having for your lunch Ally?!’
“I was so rattled by that whole experience and I just thought ‘I can’t do this’.
“I remember at the end just walking out and the only thing I could find the ability to say was ‘Ally, erm, my dad says hi, he knows you.’
“And he said ‘Oh, who’s your dad?’
“I said ‘Davie Irons’ and he put his arm around me, started walking down the corridor like ‘How’s your dad?! You phone him after this and tell him I’m asking for him!
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“All the journalists were like ‘who is this?’ but after that, every time I went back (to Ibrox), he would make sure I got a question in. He would look for me.
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