Watch: Large Insect Creeps Out On CNN Reporter Manu Raju During Live Shot
CNN’s chief congressional correspondent Manu Raju had an unwelcome guest appear in his live shot on Thursday while filming a stand-up at the US Capitol.
Raju tweeted a clip showing the moment he gets bugged out by a very large cicada. The insect can be seen crawling up his suit and onto the back of his neck. He doesn’t seem to notice until a few seconds later. It’s not clear if someone in his earpiece told him that he had a bug on him, but shortly after he reacts and flicks the insect out of his hair while screaming out in profanity.
“Do I have more on me?” Raju asks.
“Are they in my hair?,” he asks, before punctuating the exchange with more profanity, which was bleeped out. “Where the f*** are the cicadas coming from?!” Raju added.”
His Twitter video has since gone viral with over five thousand likes and 51.3K retweets. Viewers also reacted to the funny clip with one saying, “LOL, Manu! I have to say you really kept your cool. I think many other folks would have been like that Florida weatherman who saw a cockroach and flipped out! Those cicadas are no jokes.”
Another added, “The beeping 😆 No one gets past Manu… not even the cicadas. This is the best clip of the day, hands down.”
LOL, Manu! I have to say you really kept your cool. I think many other folks would have been like that Florida weatherman who saw a cockroach and flipped out!
Those cicadas are no jokes. pic.twitter.com/mcGEmZuq2q
— Russell Drew (@RussOnPolitics) May 27, 2021
The beeping 😆
No one gets past Manu… not even the cicadas.
This is the best clip of the day, hands down. https://t.co/TtPc8FK0dn
— Dianne Gallagher (@DianneG) May 27, 2021
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