A morning TV host's hands-on approach during an interview on reptiles went askew when a red-tailed boa constrictor slipped into her blouse and got stuck.
Jeanne Sparrow from WCIU's You & Me This Morning in Chicago tried to make light of the moment on air but eventually had to leave the studio set to get help removing the huge snake from her silk shirt.
"This is getting really X-rated," said co-host Melissa Forman as the snake slithered towards Sparrow's chest.
"He sees something he likes."
The awkward TV moment unfolded on Friday during an interview with Chicago's Herpetological Society, which had brought a few reptiles to the set.
"He probably feels my heart, right?" Sparrow suggested to her interviewee, after the boa constrictor she picked hovered around her bosom. "And he's like: I want to be in there."
Viewers watched as the snake reared up, slipped under Sparrow's shirt collar and began to slither down her right arm sleeve.
"It kind of tickles a little bit," she said, trying to laugh off the incident. But the snake refused to be coaxed out when its handler came to the TV host's aid.
"This thing is stronger than I anticipated," Sparrow said. "He's about to rip my silk shirt, damn it. Get me out of this!"
Sparrow then left the set, followed by the snake's handler, as Forman read the weather.
A camera crew soon found Sparrow backstage to continue filming as the snake was eventually pulled from Sparrow's shirt without incident, much to the host's relief.
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