An academic who became a viral sensation when his interview on the BBC was gatecrashed by his two young children has marked the 7th anniversary of his unexpected rise to fame.
Political analyst Robert E Kelly had been speaking to the corporation in a segment about North Korea in 2017 when his then-four-year-old daughter Marion barged into the room with her baby brother James hot on her heels in his walker.
The hilarious clip, which has been seen millions of times on the internet since then, saw Professor Kelly – who is a political science professor at Pusan National University in South Korea – power through and ignore the chaos behind him as his wife Jung-a rushed into the room to remove their excitable children.
Seven years on the father-of-two, who became known as ‘BBC dad’ following the calamitous clip, has re-shared the video and released new pictures of his fast-growing children to mark the occasion.
The doting father released…
