BBC’s Victoria Fritz gave birth shortly after appearing live on TV… but that was just the start of her story

LAST month BBC presenter Victoria Fritz went into labour five weeks early, shortly after appearing live on air.

A scrupulous planner, Victoria, 32, had discussed the options for her baby's birth with her GP as well as making note of hospitals nationwide just in case she went into labour while she was away working.

But, as her story proves, you can’t out-plan Mother Nature, and Victoria went into labour shortly after her on air broadcast from BBC Breakfast's Salford studios in Greater Manchester - hundreds of miles from her London home and her husband, Dan, 34.

The newsreader - dubbed Britain's all-time sexiest presenter - was then rushed to Manchester's St Mary's Hospital.

But colleague Sally Nugent, 45, had to step in as her birthing partner after Dan got stuck in traffic on the M6.

The new mum went on to tweet that the delivery was a "BBC Breakfast team effort".

However, behind the scenes of her son’s well-publicised birth, there was  also drama hidden from the cameras.

Shortly after birth, little William developed breathing problems and spent the next two weeks in a high-dependency unit.

She told the :  “It feels surreal. Everything happened so quickly.

“We just feel incredibly blessed to have been able to bring our son home.”