--- title: Spider Photobombs BBC News Anchor description: A giant spider roughly the size of a BBC news anchor's head interrupted a live broadcast of the morning news, or so it appeared to amused viewers who tweeted pictures of the "attack." canonical: https://time.com/3107766/watch-giant-spider-interrupts-british-news-broadcast/ author: Dan Kedmey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-13T16:18:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:12:25.340Z og:title: Spider Photobombs BBC News Anchor og:description: A giant spider roughly the size of a BBC news anchor's head interrupted a live broadcast of the morning news, or so it appeared to amused viewers who tweeted pictures of the "attack." og:url: https://time.com/3107766/watch-giant-spider-interrupts-british-news-broadcast/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Spider Photobombs BBC News Anchor twitter:description: A giant spider roughly the size of a BBC news anchor's head interrupted a live broadcast of the morning news, or so it appeared to amused viewers who tweeted pictures of the "attack." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # WATCH: Giant Spider Interrupts British News Broadcast  by [Dan Kedmey](https://time.com/author/dan-kedmey/)  ## Dan Kedmey Aug 13, 2014 4:18 PM UTC  by [Dan Kedmey](https://time.com/author/dan-kedmey/)  ## Dan Kedmey Aug 13, 2014 4:18 PM UTC A giant spider roughly the size of a BBC news anchor’s head interrupted a live broadcast of the morning news, or so it appeared to amused viewers who [tweeted](https://twitter.com/search?q=bbc%20spider&mode=photos&src=tyah) pictures of the “attack.” It was of course a normal house spider that had spun a web across the camera lens, and wasn’t about to let a live telecast get between it and breakfast. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3107766/watch-giant-spider-interrupts-british-news-broadcast/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3107766/watch-giant-spider-interrupts-british-news-broadcast/"},"headline":"WATCH: Giant Spider Interrupts British News Broadcast","datePublished":"2014-08-13T16:18:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:12:25.340Z","description":"Or crawled over a BBC News camera lens, we can't decide","url":"https://time.com/3107766/watch-giant-spider-interrupts-british-news-broadcast/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","BBC"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Dan Kedmey","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/dan-kedmey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3107766/watch-giant-spider-interrupts-british-news-broadcast/","name":"WATCH: Giant Spider Interrupts British News Broadcast"}}]}] ```