Jess Smith as the sun child in the series. — © BBC
The British woman who starred as a child for years in the children’s series ‘Teletubbies’ has given birth to her first child. Jess Smith herself announced this on social media.
Tuesday, January 16, 2024 at 11:23 am
“A whole week with you,” Smith writes with a photo of her newborn baby’s hand. The gender or name of the child is not yet known.
Smith ended up in the world-famous toddler series very coincidentally. The makers knocked on the door of a local hospital looking for parents to ask if they could use their young ones for a TV series. For a long time it was not clear who the child in the sun was.
It wasn’t until she was nineteen that Jess came clean. “I kept it a secret throughout my childhood, but encouraged by friends at university, I made it public,” she said several years ago. “Some people claimed they were the sun, but I am the one and only.”
She herself cannot remember anything about the recordings, because she was only nine months old. She came to the hospital for a routine check-up. The staff passed on her details to the TV makers because she laughed so much. “And yet I still had to go through a few rounds of auditions,” says the woman. “When we were recording, my dad would hold a teddy bear behind the camera which made me laugh. Other times I was put in front of a mirror. When I saw myself, I laughed too.” Jess worked with Tinky-Winky, Dipsy, Laa Laa and Po from 1997 to 2001.
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