News anchor calmly eats fly on air

An American journalist made headlines herself after swallowing a fly during a live news broadcast. Vansessa Welch was reading out a story about domestic violence when a fly invaded the studio and annexed her eyelashes. Welch carried on reading the news in a manner that suggested ‘look, I know there’s a fly on me, but let’s pretend there’s not.’ The fly, emboldened by a perceived lack of action, decided to further extend its territorial gains to her mouth. This was its greatest, and most final, mistake. In a stunning and stoic display of professionalism, Welch asserted her dominance over the fly by swallowing it wholesale, and, barely missing a beat, continued to read out the story. o.