{"id":254956,"date":"2026-01-24T07:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T07:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/254956\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T07:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T07:32:07","slug":"tv-presenters-trip-on-the-vomit-comet-lives-up-to-its-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/254956\/","title":{"rendered":"TV Presenter’s Trip On The ‘Vomit Comet’ Lives Up To Its Name"},"content":{"rendered":"

Flights like this are common for training astronauts.<\/p>\n

PublishedJanuary 23, 2026 5:30 PM EST\u2022UpdatedJanuary 23, 2026 5:16 PM EST<\/p>\n

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I’ve always been fascinated by the “Vomit Comet” flights that NASA<\/a> uses to simulate zero gravity. I’ve seen many videos of people floating around, but I don’t think any have gone as poorly as the experience of TV presenter and social media star Francis Bourgeois.<\/p>\n

Bourgeois made a name for himself on social media for his trainspotting videos, and he is rumored to be one of the new hosts for the Amazon Prime series “The Grand Tour.”<\/p>\n

He has a new documentary coming out for Channel 4 in the UK called “Mission to Space with Francis Bourgeois,” and that’s why he was hopping aboard the Vomit Comet.<\/p>\n

And, boy, did it ever live up to its name.<\/p>\n

That nickname really makes sense now, doesn’t it?<\/p>\n

Bourgeois’ signature move has always been that head-mounted GoPro pointed at his own face. It’s one of those things that is just hilarious every time you see it, and even more so in zero gravity.<\/p>\n

I’m sure it’s not fun floating around in a big metal tube with some other guys’ regurgitated lunch, but I bet once the crew was back on the ground, they were high-fiving and popping Champagne, knowing they captured some TV gold.<\/p>\n

And no shade toward Bourgeois for tossing his biscuits (that’s British for “cookies”) on that plane<\/a>, I couldn’t have done any better.<\/p>\n

I mean, I get sick if I’m not in the front seat of a car. I can’t even imagine what would happen if I rode the Vomit Comet.<\/p>\n

I’d probably puke on the tarmac just from seeing it.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure if there’s any way to watch this special here in the States, because this was gold, Jerry!<\/p>\n

But I assume the next batch of “Grand Tour” episodes will be available here. I wasn’t sure how you could replace the chemistry of Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May, but it looks like we have one possible answer: make a guy puke all over himself while floating around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flights like this are common for training astronauts. PublishedJanuary 23, 2026 5:30 PM EST\u2022UpdatedJanuary 23, 2026 5:16 PM…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-254956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}