Konnie Huq has revealed a ‘mortifying’ moment at the 2016 BAFTAs when she suffered a wardrobe malfunction on the red carpet.
The presenter, 49, who shares sons shares Covie, 14, and Huxley, 11, with husband Charlie Brooker, opened up about the mishap as she appeared on Fabulous’ No Parental Guidance podcast.
She explained that at the time of the awards ceremony she was breastfeeding Huxley, who was five months old at the time.
Konnie confessed that as a result her breasts ended up ‘exploding with milk’.
She recalled: ‘I would leave the house before the baby had woken up. I’d wake up at five, had to express milk, leave the house before I’d even seen the baby.’
‘I needed us to finish early. And if we didn’t, I’d sit there with my boobs so in pain.’
Konnie Huq has revealed a ‘mortifying’ moment at the 2016 BAFTAs when she suffered a wardrobe malfunction on the red carpet (pictured at the ceremony)
She continued: ‘I was once at the BAFTAs in a sheer dress. I remember having to go to the toilets and then stuff loads of, like, tissue in my bra – and actually squeeze my boobs.
‘Thank God, the red carpet bit is first because I could see two stains on me – not a good look’.
Konnie became an on-screen favourite when she appeared as a CBBC Blue Peter presenter.
She met her Black Mirror creator husband during an episode of his show, Screenwipe, in 2009 and they became engaged nine months later, in June 2010.
Previously, the Blue Peter star admitted that she pressured Charlie into having marriage and babies in the early days of their relationship.
Konnie said she gave the TV creator an ultimatum so that neither of them wasted their time with one another.
Speaking on Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s podcast Spinning Plates in 2022, Konnie said she always wanted to have children and feared Charlie didn’t feel the same, so the conversation and deal breaker immediately came up.
‘I always wanted to have kids… I always thought I’d have three kids and then I had two and was like, ”I’m done now,” she began.
The presenter, 49, who shares sons shares Covie, 14, and Huxley, 11, with husband Charlie Brooker , opened up about the mishap as she appeared on the No Parental Guidance podcast
‘But weirdly, Charlie didn’t think he ever wanted kids. So when we got together, I was like, “if you’re not a having kids kind of person than we’re not compatible” But it turns out he was.’
‘But he is really good with kids which you might not think cause of his miserable alter ego, but Charlie is a lamb in wolf’s clothing.’
Speaking about tying the knot so fast after meeting each other, Konnie said that at the time, her ‘body clock was ticking’.
‘I was in my mid-thirties and when you’re in your mid-thirties with your body clock ticking, you sort of think, “I don’t want to be in another relationship without it going anywhere”, she said.
Konnie shares Covie, 14, (right) and Huxley (left) with her husband Charlie Brooker, who she met on an episode of his show, Screenwipe (all pictured in 2019)
