The “BBC Dad” gaffe turned 7 this weekend — and the world got cute photos to celebrate!
On Saturday, Professor Robert E. Kelly shared new pictures of his family on X (formerly Twitter) to mark seven years since the viral video of his daughter Marion, then 4, and her younger brother James bringing down their father’s very serious BBC interview.
“BBC Dada content. Today is the 7th anniversary of the BBC Dada blunder. So here it is again, with some recent family pictures in the thread below,” Kelly wrote in his post.
Along with the original video from 2017, the father of two shared photos of himself posing with his wife Kim Jung-A and two grown children.
“This is from Marion’s birthday party today and James and I went hiking this morning,” he captioned one series of four photos.
Robert E. Kelly’s family in 2017 Family breaks silence in Internet-winning BBC video: ‘We said to each other, “Wow, what just happened”‘
The family posed together in the two photos above, with Marion focusing on serving her cake while James looked on in the third. In the last photo, James and Kelly stopped for a selfie while hiking.
The thread also featured photos of Kelly posing with Marion while they were hiking and children hanging out with Santa in December 2023.
The final set of photos shows the Kelly family posing in front of the Christmas tree with relatives during the 2023 holiday season.
In a particularly festive on-set photo, James wore a Santa hat while sitting on his dad’s shoulders. Marion and Jung-A also donned red Santa hats as they stood on either side of Kelly.
The family became internet famous in March 2017 when Kelly had unexpected visitors while being interviewed by the BBC on live television about the political crisis in South Korea.
His daughter took his open office door as an invitation to interrupt his interview.
The siblings who went viral after they crashed their dad’s BBC interview 6 years ago look all grown up
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Robert E. Kelly and his daughter Marion. Robert E. Kelly/Twitter
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As seen in the video, Marion was in a giddy mood when she danced her way into a room in their apartment in Busan, South Korea, and approached the camera. As the BBC reporter recognized the child, her then-younger brother jumped up behind her, followed by their exhausted mother.
“I’m sorry, I apologize,” Kelly said calmly as his wife tried to usher the children out of the room. Jung-A was eventually successful and was sure he reached inside and closed the door to prevent further disruption, as wonderful as it was.
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