[Infowarrior] - Children's TV Stars Face Anti-Terror Quiz

[Richard Forno]

Children's TV Stars Face Anti-Terror Quiz
1:31pm UK, Tuesday January 26, 2010

Hannah Stott, Sky News Online

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/TV-Presenters-Anna-Williamson-And-Jamie-Rickers-Held-By-Police-Under-Under-Anti-Terror-Powers/Article/201001415536056

Two children's TV presenters have revealed they were held by police  
under anti-terrorism powers after being stopped while running around  
with hairdryers in London.

Anna Williamson and Jamie Rickers, who front ITV1's hit show  
Toonattik, were filming a sketch for the programme on London's South  
Bank wearing combat gear and armed with children's walkie-talkies and  
glitter-covered hairdryers.
Their fake fatigues aroused the suspicions of patrolling police, who  
stopped and questioned them.

Williamson, 28, said: "We were filming a strand called Dork Hunters,  
which is to do with one of the animations we have on the show.

"We were out and about doing 'dork hunting' ourselves on the streets  
of London.

"Jamie and I were kitted out in fake utility belts. We've got  
hairdryers in our belt, a kids' walkie-talkie, hairbrushes and all  
that kind of stuff, and we were being followed by a camera crew and a  
boom mike and we get literally pulled over by four policemen and we  
were issued with a warning 'under the act of terrorism'."

Rickers, 32, added: "We were stopped, not arrested, but they had to  
say 'we are holding you under the Anti-Terrorism Act because you're  
running around in flak jackets and a utility belt', and I said 'and  
please put spangly blue hairdryer' and he was, like, 'all right'."
The presenting duo also hit the headlines in 2008 when Rickers, re- 
enacting a scene from The Emperor's New Clothes, appeared to strut  
around the studio naked, although it was later revealed he was wearing  
a flesh suit from the waist down.

The morning programme, which provides light-hearted links in between  
cartoons such as Ben 10: Alien Force and Dork Hunters From Outer  
Space, attracts around 616,000 viewers each weekend morning, making it  
the most popular terrestrial programme of its kind.