Posted by Too Late on September 23, 1999 at 14:15
Here is something I found at a different site I thought you might like.(To all you non believers-the info is out there).
Anon recounted how Anneka Rice lost her self-control on an episode of
Treasure Hunt.
“The best TV presenter wetting incident I ever witnessed relates to
"Miss Rear of the Year" herself, Anneka Rice ("Treasure Hunt"). She
wasn't actually seen wetting herself on-screen, but she recounted it
afterwards. Mind you, I find that having to use your imagination makes
this sort of thing ten times better.
After she left "Treasure Hunt" she started doing "Challenge Anneka" in
which she was challenged to organise an event (eg a concert) or to
renovate a school in just a few hours by drumming up support from local
people and persuading shopkeepers to donate a bit of their stock to a
worthwhile cause.
Well the first of these Challenges (effectively the pilot to the
programme) was part of the "Children in Need" appeal one year on BBC1.
Anneka was challenged to organise a live orchestral concert, complete
with fireworks, to take place on a huge floating pontoon just downstream
of Tower Bridge.
Anneka was dressed in one of her trademark one-piece jumpsuits - pale
pink.
Throughout the evening they kept showing footage of her as she threw
herself with characteristic girlish enthusiasm into the task of
organising everyone.
The finale showed her in front of the orchestra "conducting" a few bars
of the music and then you saw her watching from the sidelines as the
concert continued and the fireworks began.
I noticed that she was jiggling around rather a lot. "She's desperate,"
I thought gleefully. "This could be fun." She started to look a bit "hot
and bothered" and overcome with emotion, but I put this down to the
rousing music - Land Of Hope And Glory - that was playing at the time.
Suddenly there was an almighty bang as a rocket exploded almost
overhead. Anneka turned bright red, turned to the sound man standing
next to her and whispered something. Her personal mike suddenly seemed
to develop a fault... Also, from then on the cameraman restricted
himself to head and shoulders shots only - it was a very noticeable
change.
In due course, the programme returned to the compere, Terry Wogan, in
the studio.
An hour or so later, Anneka appeared in the studio - wearing not her
jumpsuit but a rather fetching short lemon-coloured skirt which showed
off her great legs to perfection. Terry was asking her about the concert
and how she felt when she realised that she'd been responsble for
organising it all.
She waffled on about the concert for a while and then she confessed that
she'd had "a bit of an accident" at the end. Apparently she'd not had
chance to go to the loo for about five hours because she'd been so busy.
It was hot so she'd been drinking a lot of fluid.
By the time of the concert, she said, she was "bursting". With
enchanting coyness she described how she'd "dribbled a bit" during Land
Of Hope And Glory and hoped that the cameraman wouldn't show her lower
half. Then came the fireworks. You've guessed it - when that big
rocketwent off overhead, she was so shocked that she completely lost it and began "gushing like a waterfall"! She was terrified that her mike would let everyone hear the sound of her peeing uncontrollably. She ended her story with the words "I'm afraid my jumpsuit's a rather darker shade of pink now.