TV presenter bitten by zoo penguin during interview

This Morning TV presenter Alison Hammond was left a little flustered during a live interview - as a penguin bit her just seconds before the camera panned to her.

Alison was at Edinburgh Zoo doing a piece on a "military penguin" when the incident occurred.

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Eammon Holmes and wife Ruth introduce her piece and Alison says: "Hello, literally before you just came to me, I just got bit by a penguin.

"Can I just check my leg, am I alright? Oh my god."

She struggles to continue with her interview and says: "I have got to interview this lovely lady, she's Dawn – one of the zoo keepers."

But adds: "But I am really, like, panicking now, I'm having a panic attack – do they normally bite like that?"

Dawn replied that the animals were young and a bit excitable.

Alison later tweeted a picture of herself "making up" with the penguin that nipped her.

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