WATCH: Toddler Jumps On ITV Anchor's Desk During Live Show

A little girl stole the show during the lunchtime news bulletin on ITV News after she interrupted anchor Alastair Stewart during a live interview.

The toddler, Iris, was accompanying her mother and brother, who were participating in the show on the British news channel to talk about milk allergies. She took the host by surprise when she hopped onto the desk and jumped up and down. Her mother Lucy Wronka, however, remained calm while answering questions about the new guidelines surrounding testing for milk allergies in babies and did stop the child who was clearly enjoying herself. The guidelines were published in the journal, Clinical and Translational Allergy, in a bid to help healthcare professionals around the world diagnose non-IgE milk allergy, which caused symptoms including eczema, reflux, colic and stomach problems.

As the show proceeded, Stewart told the audience that the girl “will do whatever she chooses to do for the next couple of minutes." He then went ahead and conducted the interview, asking Iris’ brother questions about his allergies because of milk, while Iris played on the anchor’s desk the entire time.

He told the girl, “You’re alright, you just carry on there,” as he continued to speak to her mother. It seemed like he controlled his laughter throughout the show. Stewart ended the show on a lighter note saying: “Mary Nightingale, I think, will have a more peaceful time at 6.30pm. From all of us, a very good afternoon to you.” He then high-fived Iris.

Speaking to the Daily Mail, Wronka, who works as a professional development manager, said Iris was "a very independent toddler, who does exactly what she wants to do.” She added: "It was about that time in the day when Iris is usually napping.It had been a very exciting day and we had already done a pre-recorded interview with Channel 5.”

She said Iris was initially on her lap when she started wriggling immediately as she sat down.“I thought 'I can either put her down or have her screaming and crying with frustration,'” she said. "She was in a green screen room with lots of TV cameras pointing at her. It was all very exciting.”

Wronka also appreciated the anchor for having handled the show smoothly despite her daughter's antics. “Alistair was a consummate professional. He is an extremely kind man," she asserted.

Twitter users too were all praises for Stewarts' conduct on the show.

There have been similar viral moments in the past that involved children on live television. Earlier, hosts of This Morning– a British daytime television programme on ITV — Ruth Langsford and Eamonn Holmes struggled to keep a straight face after a toddler wandered around the studio before wetting herself on the studio floor while her parents were being interviewed about their off-grid approach to parenting. During the interview, one-year-old Ostara walked around the entire studio before peeing on the studio floor. Only mildly distracted, Langsford and Holmes continued with the interview.

In another video that had gone viral, Robert Kelly, an expert on South Korea was interrupted by his daughter when she walked into the room from behind him when he was speaking live on air on BBC. As he discussed the impeachment of former South Korean President Park Geun-hye, the child walked in and danced around the room before she was joined by her sibling. Their mother was then seen rushing in the frame to cart them away.