We’ve all had disasters at work, but few will have suffered anything as bad as the one endured by BBC newsreader Lewis Vaughan Jones.
The 41-year-old regularly fronts the 5pm and 10pm bulletins – watched by at least five million people – but one evening in 2018, while presenting the newspaper review with a panel of guests, he lost his hearing totally.
Many viewers will not have known that Lewis was almost completely deaf and at the time relied on a hearing aid. And on the night in question, it suddenly failed.
‘For 20 minutes I couldn’t hear a single word,’ the father-of-one told The Mail on Sunday.
‘I managed to muddle through without anyone noticing. Thankfully I am pretty skilled at lip-reading, but it was scary.’
IN PLAIN SIGHT: Lewis Vaughan Jones presenting BBC news with his white hearing aid implant clearly visible
Lewis with his wife, former CNN newsreader Hannah Vaughan Jones
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