This Ukrainian TV presenter's video has gone viral after footage from her newsroom showed her missing her front tooth and catching it with her hand and carrying on with reading news, pretending nothing happened, all the while she was live on the show.
Marichka Padalko, a Ukrainian TV presenter was updating situation on COVID-19 when her tooth fell out live on-air and the woman remarkably kept her cool over the incident and carried on with the morning bulletin.
The TSN host put her hand in front of her mouth to catch the tooth and carried on as if nothing had happened.
The moment was naturally caught on camera which was then posted on social media. The news anchor confirmed that she had lost part of her front tooth while she was reading the news in an Instagram post. "This is probably my most curious experience in 20 years as a presenter," she said. "Live broadcasting is wonderful because it is always unpredictable," the reporter added.
The TV anchor was commended by people for handling the incident like a pro and not letting it disturb her reporting. "You reacted as if you lose your teeth every day," a colleague of Marichka commented. The Ukrainian journalist said that it had likely happened after an incident involving her young daughter over 10 years ago, according to reports.
Her daughter reportedly grabbed a heavy metal clock from the window and started swinging the clock as if it is a toy. All this happened when Marichka was asleep. The clock hit the journalist in the mouth, damaging her front tooth.
Marichka never really thought that her viewers will be this much attentive. And little did she imagine that this video will go viral on social media.
"In any situation we keep calm. See you tomorrow morning," as she rounded off her post.