Robert Kelly Brought His Wife And Kids To A Press Conference

Everyone has recently become very familiar with Korea expert Robert Kelly, after his kids crashed a Skype interview he was doing with the BBC.

Kelly was taking part in a live broadcast from Busan about the very serious matter of the impeachment of the South Korean president when things took a completely different turn. His daughter Marion came bouncing through the door, followed by her brother, James, and mother, Jung-a-Kim.

Mimicking a David Brent style entrance, only missing out the "IIIIIIII'm coming up so you better get this party started... SHAMONE," gag, Marion took the spotlight.

Kelly has since had his say on the live TV mishap, saying: "As soon as she opened the door I saw her image on my screen. She was in a hippity-hoppity mood that day because of the school party."

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Because his family is now such an online sensation, he brought them along to a press conference for yet another appearance.

"We love our children very much and are happy that our family blooper, our family error there on television brought so much laughter to so many people," he said. "We thought it was a disaster [at first].

"I immediately called the BBC and I apologise to them. I said that if they never called us back or never asked me to be on television again I would understand."

Once again the focus was more on his family rather than him, as Marion rocked her glasses and ate a lollipop without a care in the world. She looks bored out her mind, though, resting her head on the table and generally not giving a fuck about anything that's going on.

"My family and I would like to thank our many well-wishers. We are just a regular family, and raising two young children can be a lot of work," Kelly said in a previous statement.

Let us not forget the originator of standing in the background of live television shots, though, shall we?

Paul Yarrow makes a habit of it, having appeared in the background of BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Sky News. Whenever a camera crew sets up in public he simply makes sure he's behind the reporter doing pretty much nothing.

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What would we do without live TV, eh?

Mark McGowan

Mark is a journalist at LADbible, who joined in 2015 after a year as a freelance writer. In the past he blogged for independent football fan channel Redmen TV, after graduating from Staffordshire University with degrees in journalism and English literature. He has worked on campaigns such as UOKM8? and IIOC.