The Project’s Sarah Harris suffered toilet horror moments before she was due live on air: ‘I popped my pants down and heard a plop’

Sarah Harris has confessed that one of her TV moments was almost a disaster. 

The Sunday Project star told her co-hosts during this weekend’s episode that she once dropped her mic down the loo seconds before she was due live on air. 

‘I have dropped my mic in the toilet, this was minutes before the very first time I filled in for the queen, Sandra Sully, and read the news in Sydney’ Sarah explained. 

‘I had five minutes to use the bathroom and had these mic packs on and racing to do the last nervous wee before the bulletin’ she went on. 

‘I popped my pants down and heard a plop, plop’ Sarah said, realising in horror she had dropped her mic pack into the loo. 

‘I wrapped it in toilet paper, lifted my pants back up, didn’t zip up and ran out.’

Her crew was less than impressed, and she explained: ‘Audio is yelling at me. I ask, “Can I put this in rice or something?” They said you have to wing it.’

Luckily, it worked out for Sarah and the live cross went ahead as planned despite her panic. 

‘I had five minutes to use the bathroom and had these mic packs on and racing to do the last nervous wee before the bulletin’ she explained  

It comes after Austin Butler made quite an impression on an the Australian television host last Monday night. 

The American actor was appearing on The Project, where he sat for an interview with Harris. 

However, the 32-year-old’s intense gaze was too much for the television journalist, who admitted he had left her ‘nervous’. 

‘When you are sitting this close to one of the biggest movie stars on the planet, it’s hard not to get a little flustered,’ the 42-year-old confessed. 

‘You do this thing when you look into someone’s soul, I’m getting it now… You have a very piercing gaze,’ she added.

‘I popped my pants down and heard a plop, plop’ Sarah said, realising in horror she had dropped her mic pack into the loo. A mic pack is pictured 

‘You have a piercing gaze too,’ Austin teased back, to which a blushing Sarah replied, ‘Do I?’

‘Yeah, I’d say so,’ Austin drawled, with Sarah giggling, ‘You’re making me nervous now!’

It was Austin who found himself starstruck recently. 

While promoting his latest film The Bikeriders on Today, the Golden Globe winner told anchor Savannah Guthrie about one actor he was too shy to talk to after what could have been a spur of the moment meeting.

‘I was just telling that story about getting starstruck by Ryan Gosling recently,’ he said. 

‘It’s when you don’t expect to see somebody,’ he relayed, adding, ‘so I saw him outside of a hotel that I was staying in and I had to go in through another door, I couldn’t say “hello.”‘ 

‘I grew up admiring him so much, so… I love that feeling,’ the Dune: Part Two star admitted.