Jess Smith, who played the beloved Sun Baby on the Teletubbies, just revealed she is expecting her first child.
" —who you will remember was, in fact, a baby at the time—is pregnant. That's right, Jess Smith is expecting her first child with partner Ricky Latham.And naturally, her comments were filled with congratulatory messages from fans feeling the nostalgia."The Teletubbies sun baby is having her own sun baby," wrote one user, while summed up everyone's feeling with,"Sun baby having a baby...damn I'm old af....congratulations mate.
thanking her university friends for encouraging her to come forward, the then-19-year-old revealed how she landed the role as an infant."When I was about 9 months old, my mum took me for a routine checkup at the local hospital," Smith wrote per a screenshot sheon Instagram in Nov. 2021, in which she reflected coming forward 7 years prior.
She continued,"From the I had to go through auditions and short lists until they finally picked one person, ME!" In the same post Smith, who is from the English county of Kent, revealed how they were able to capture the now-iconic shots of her laughing and looking in certain directions used in the show.
"While recording my dad held a teddy bear behind the camera to get me to laugh," she explained."And rolled a toy racing car to get me to look down at the camera, it obviously worked."
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