American actress Jess Smith, known for her role as Sunny in the educational children’s series Teletubbies, is expecting her first child. The 27-year-old revealed the news on social media, sharing ultrasound images with her followers. From the visuals everyone could see, the pregnancy appeared to be well advanced. “When two become three,” she wrote, hinting at the expanding family. The gender of the unborn child was not disclosed.
Jess Smith joined Teletubbies in 1997, at just nine months old, after her parents answered a casting call for the then-new program. Her duty was simple yet demanding: to smile and laugh for approximately thirty minutes of screen time. Over time, her family learned more about the show’s purpose and how it would shape Smith’s early experiences in front of the camera. Despite the early camera presence, he later admitted that the public aspects of the job were challenging. He emphasized that education and personal development took priority over television appearances.
The original Teletubbies series premiered on the BBC in 1997 and continued through 2001, created by Anne Wood and Andy Davenport. In Russia, the program aired on RTR from 2000 to 2002. In 2022, Netflix revived Teletubbies with a new Sunny character, described as an Asian-looking doll, bringing the series to a new generation of viewers and an international audience.
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