{"id":582536,"date":"2026-08-28T02:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T02:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/582536\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T02:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T02:14:13","slug":"bird-leaves-its-mark-on-andrew-saville-hopefully-its-good-luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/582536\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird leaves its mark on Andrew Saville: ‘Hopefully it\u2019s good luck’"},"content":{"rendered":"

1News sports presenter Andrew Saville came under friendly fire in South Africa, but he\u2019s choosing to see it as a good omen for himself and the All Blacks.<\/p>\n

Saville was speaking to Breakfast this morning from Cape Town ahead of the second Test between the Springboks and All Blacks when a bird left a deposit on his shirt.<\/p>\n

Ever the professional, he didn\u2019t notice the indiscretion at the time \u2013 it was pointed out to him by hosts Tova O\u2019Brien and Chris Chang.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m wondering which of these species may have crapped on your shirt, Sav,\u201d Chang said.<\/p>\n

Saville said he thought he felt something hit his hair while speaking.<\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully it\u2019s good luck for the All Blacks and myself.\u201d <\/p>\n

Before the groodle puppy could predict the outcome of the upcoming All White’s World Cup game, he had to do his morning business on live TV. (Source: Breakfast)<\/p>\n

It’s not the first time<\/a> an animal’s call of nature has derailed a Breakfast segment this year.<\/p>\n

During TVNZ’s World Cup coverage, Oli Sail’s puppy, brought on to see if it could predict the outcome of New Zealand’s opening World Cup match against Iran, went to the toilet. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1News sports presenter Andrew Saville came under friendly fire in South Africa, but he\u2019s choosing to see it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[190,50,156,111,139,69,6445],"class_list":["post-582536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-africa","tag-animals","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tvnz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}