In The Spotlight: Kenny Toal

Always properly defrost cheese pies. That was the lesson learned by regional newsreader Kenny Toal last week when, gripped by stomach spasms midway through his evening show, North East Tonight, broadcast from Newcastle upon Tyne, Toal realised he was going to vomit on air.

Toal held himself together until the video clip ran, when he retched into a nearby wastepaper bin, pushed the bin back under the desk and, ashen-faced, turned to the ...