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Video: How to deal with a drunk person videobombing your live TV report

Pay attention, they don’t teach you this at journalism school…

WE KNOW FROM many previous videos here on the DailyEdge.ie that filing live news reports to camera is a tricky business.

All manner of things can happen: you can fall asleep, you can lose control of yourself, and things can get so crazy you have to punch someone ON LIVE TELEVISION.

But there are ways of dealing with stressful situations such as when a smiley, drunk woman appears out of nowhere and starts getting all up in your grill.

This lady looks a bit overly attached to this Kvue reporter in Austin, Texas but the reporter doesn’t lose her cool and handles the situation rather diplomatically we think:

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