British television newsreader Jonathan Hill didn't want to make a scene when a fly flew into his mouth during a live broadcast - so he swallowed it, newspapers said today. Hill, 28, said his instinct was to spit out the fly but he felt that would disgust viewers. "I choked on my words but just couldn't spit it out on camera," said Hill, who was reading the news on a Welsh television channel. "It's a tea time show and viewers could have been made ill right across the country. I had to be professional with so many people watching. There was only one choice. I had to grin and bear it." Hill said that as a dedicated vegetarian it was the first meat he had eaten in years. "I definitely haven't got the taste for it back now," he said.

((c) Reuters)