{"id":508135,"date":"2026-02-27T19:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T19:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/508135\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T19:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T19:14:11","slug":"this-morning-hosts-freaked-out-as-humanoid-robot-opens-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/508135\/","title":{"rendered":"This Morning hosts \u2018freaked out\u2019 as humanoid robot opens show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:The Independent;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"The Independent\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"271\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ae90c5b0-7c98-11ed-befe-1be805a50c91.png\"\/><\/a>Fri, 27 February 2026 at 4:22 pm UTC<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/dcbcae650dc18ec455c567359eac668b.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This Morning hosts \u2018freaked out\u2019 as humanoid robot opens show<\/p>\n<p>An unusual guest opened Friday\u2019s (27 February) episode of This Morning &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.co.uk\/news\/german-chancellor-ends-trip-china-220754874.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:a dancing robot;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">a dancing robot <\/a>that left the hosts \u201cfreaked out\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Harold the robot showed off his dance moves to Tom Jones\u2019 \u201cSexbomb\u201d in the ITV studio before hosts Dermot O\u2019Leary and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/alison-hammond\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Alison Hammond;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Alison Hammond<\/a> walked on set.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHello everyone and welcome to Friday&#8217;s This Morning,\u201d it announced.<\/p>\n<p>After making their entrance, O\u2019Leary joked that it was \u201conly a question of time\u201d until the duo were replaced by humanoid bots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHarold you are too good, it&#8217;s freaking me out,\u201d he added, before him and Hammond began dancing with the bot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fri, 27 February 2026 at 4:22 pm UTC This Morning hosts \u2018freaked out\u2019 as humanoid robot opens show&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[229670,64,63,144581,254908,134,31007,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-508135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-alison-hammond","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-dancing-robot","12":"tag-dermot-oleary","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-this-morning","15":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}