To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser that supports HTML5video A weather presenter has stopped his broadcast after suffering a panic attack on live television . ABC News Breakfast presenter Nate Byrne has fronted the Australian TV programme’s weather coverage over the past seven years. However, on Tuesday he alerted his colleagues and audience to the fact he needed to take a quick break after feeling a panic attack coming on.
While in the middle of reading the weather report for the state of Queensland, he asked to hand back to hosts Lisa Millar and Michael Rowland. ‘I’m actually going to need to stop for a second,’ he said. ‘Some of you may know that I occasionally get affected by some panic attacks, and actually that’s happening right now.
‘Lisa, maybe I could hand back to you.’ More than happy to take over, Millar mentioned a piece Byrne had written two years ago about experiencing panic attacks on air. ‘Nate wrote a great piece on the ABC online website about this, and I reckon we might re-up it, put it on our socials, so you can have a bit of a read because it’s fantastic that he has been so open and transparent about it,’ she explained.
‘The response when he first wrote about it and spoke about it was that everyone said, “Oh thank god, Nate’s not perfect, we thought he was perfect, but actually he’s now sharing something”.’ She added: ‘So, we will put that up and you can get a little bit o.