Anti-terror police stop children’s TV stars… for carrying glittery hairdryers

UK Daily Mail
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Police questioned two children’s TV presenters under anti-terrorism laws – for carrying glittery hairdryers.

Four officers swooped on Anna Williamson and Jamie Rickers, who front ITV1’s hit show Toonattik, while they were filming in central London.

The pair – who were being followed by a film crew – were performing a skit on the South Bank wearing fake combat clothing and holding children’s walkie-talkies, hairbrushes and brightly coloured hairdryers.

But their outfits aroused the suspicions of patrolling police, who pulled them aside for questioning before issung them with a warning ‘under the act of terrorism’.

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