Nine star Peter Overton suffers awkward on-air mishap

Veteran Nine star Peter Overton had an unfortunate mishap during Thursday night’s evening news bulletin.

Channel Nine veteran Peter Overton has suffered an unfortunate on-air mishap during the evening news.

The Sydney anchor was just minutes into his hour-long bulletin on Thursday night when he attempted to introduce the network’s political editor for an update, during which he accidentally spat out a throat lozenge.

Overton suffered an unfortunate on-air mishap on Thursday night. Picture: Channel Nine

“And Nine’s political editor Charles, oh excuse me, Charles Croucher joins me from Canberra. Charles, good evening to you,” Overton told the Canberra-based journalist.

He appeared to catch the lozenge in his hand and quickly resumed the news segment.

The 58-year-old presenter returned to the airwaves in early February after having time off to undergo emergency surgery on his vocal chords to remove a polyp.

The lozenge slipped out of his mouth. Picture: Channel Nine

His wife, Jessica Rowe, shared the news with fans mid-January in a post on Instagram.

“As you know Pete doesn’t do Insta – and he wanted me to share some news with you. He’s off work for a little longer at the moment after an ENT surgeon discovered a polyp on one of his vocal cords which explains his very raspy voice over the holidays,” Rowe said, adding there would be “no talk for now”.

Overton himself opened up about the ordeal once he returned to work, admitting it had “scared” him.

‘They stick a camera up your nose and then down into your vocal cord, and then on a big screen, you see your vocal cords,” he said.

“And I saw this. It was like a big blister, a lump just hanging off the cord. I must admit, it scared the living daylights out of me.”

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