BBC Breakfast's Nina Warhurst issues three-word response as she makes confession on air

BBC Breakfast presenter Nina Warhurst near her co-host Charlie Stayt speechless arsenic she opened up astir her phobia during Thursday's show.

BBC Breakfast's Nina Warhurst opened up astir her unsocial phobia connected Thursday's show. While presenting with co-host Charlie Stayt, they were discussing immoderate of the day's headlines.

Nina stumbled upon an intriguing nonfiction astir phobias and shared a communicative astir a Swedish person named Paulina Brandberg who has a fearfulness of bananas.

She turned to Charlie and said: "The wider nonfiction is astir wholly irrational phobias. So, fearfulness of buttons, balloons and tomatoes. It's an country of science wherever they don't needfully cognize wherever it comes from."

Then Nina revealed her ain phobia, which she lone realised a fewer years back. She explained to Charlie: "It's called Trypophobia, which is simply a fearfulness of tiny clusters, holes oregon bumps."

She admitted: "It conscionable makes maine shudder! Or seeing the wrong of a beehive, makes maine shudder. Anything similar that."

Charlie, looking baffled, asked: "So it's thing to bash with the surface?"

He past wondered if the holes successful their sofa mightiness trigger her phobia, reports the Express.

Nina responded: "That's good due to the fact that the bumps aren't visible, that's alright. There volition beryllium thing successful present that makes maine uncomfortable, let's not effort and question it out."

Charlie was near gobsmacked connected aerial erstwhile helium recovered retired that immoderate radical person a phobia of buttons, thing helium admitted he'd ne'er travel crossed before.

Nina responded with a idiosyncratic touch: " Yeah, my sister has a fastener phobia! She doesn't cognize why, it conscionable makes her consciousness icky if she sees buttons."

Charlie, puzzled, questioned however idiosyncratic could negociate regular beingness with specified a fear, fixed the prevalence of buttons.

The BBC big elaborated: "She avoids apparel with buttons on."

Curious, Charlie probed further: "What astir different people's buttons? ".

Nina couldn't assistance but chuckle astatine her colleague's inquisitiveness, saying: "Not blessed but has had to larn to unrecorded alongside it! ".

Charlie, intelligibly intrigued by the conversation, concluded: "Wow, that's tricky."

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