BBC Breakfast’s Nina Warhurst responds to her co-star with three words after her on-air confession

BBC Breakfast star Nina Warhurst left her co-host Charlie Stayt speechless as she made a candid confession live on air, admitting it “makes me shudder”.

On BBC Breakfast, Nina Warhurst revealed a rather unique fear she has had during Thursday’s show, saying it “makes me shudder”. While co-hosting the show with Charlie Stayt, they discussed some of the day’s top stories.

Nina was intrigued by a newspaper article about phobias and highlighted the case of a Swedish politician named Paulina Brandberg who suffers from banana phobia.

She turned to her co-host and commented: “The broader article is about completely irrational phobias. So the fear of buttons, balloons and tomatoes. It’s an area of ​​psychology that they don’t necessarily know where she’s coming from.”

Nina then talked about her own strange fear, which she only became aware of a few years ago. She explained to Charlie: “It’s called trypophobia, which is the fear of small accumulations, holes or bumps.”

To give Charlie an idea, she admitted, “It just makes me shudder! Or seeing the inside of a beehive makes me shudder. Something like that.”

Charlie looked confused as he asked, “So does it have something to do with the surface?”

He looked around for something that might trigger her phobia and asked if the holes in her sofa would be a problem, the Express reports.

Nina replied, “That’s fine because the bumps aren’t visible, that’s fine. There’s going to be something in here that makes me uncomfortable, let’s not try to look for it!”

Returning to the topic that Nina had originally raised, Charlie was amazed to learn that some people have a phobia of buttons and admitted that this was completely new to him.

Nina responded with a personal note: “Yes, my sister has a button phobia! She doesn’t know why, it just makes her gross when she sees buttons.”

Charlie was confused and wondered how this could affect someone, considering the ubiquity of buttons in everyday life.

The BBC presenter explained: “She avoids clothes with buttons.”

Intrigued, Charlie pressed further: “What about other people’s buttons?”

Nina laughed at her colleague’s curiosity and replied: “Not happy, but had to learn to live with it!”

Surprised by the revelation, he commented: “Wow, that’s tricky.”

BBC Breakfast continues weekdays from 6am on BBC One.