If you spent your childhood between the late ’90s and early 2000s, you surely enjoyed watching ‘The Teletubbies’, a boundary-breaking children’s show broadcast by British news channel BBC. because it was even seen in Latin America.
You must also remember the baby-faced sun that lit up all the chapters. The character you saw there is currently a 26-year-old woman and you may be surprised at how she looks today.
Between 1997 and 2000, “The Teletubbies” brought joy to children’s homes with daily broadcasts. Although many years have passed, viewers still remember this series fondly and nostalgically.
Aside from Baby Sun, the characters in the series were: Inky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa and Po.
A great team worked on this production to provide the voices for the characters: Simon Shelton brought to life Tinky-Winky, the eldest and largest Teletubbie; Jon Simmit played the stubborn and sarcastic “Dipsy”; Nikky Smedley spoke the delicate and sophisticated “Laa Laa”; and Pui Fan Lea brought the clumsiest and smallest ‘Po’ to life.
In each episode, the “Teletubbies” cooked, danced, ran, sang and sang, and went baby-faced to the meadow to play under the rays of the bright sun. But do you know who the interpreter of this strange character was?
Who was the baby sun?
In real life, the little one who shone on the show was British Jessica Smith, and she was only one year old at the time. She is currently 26 years old and studying dance at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand.
According to Spanish outlet La Vanguardia, Smith, who was born in 1995, was in a hospital when the producers of The Teletubbies found her and were captivated by her bright and innocent smile.
When they saw her, they decided to set up a mirror and camera in front of her while the little girl’s father – Bill Smith – entertained her with some toy cars. It was at that moment that they realized she was the one to play Baby Sun.
Taking to her social media, the young woman admitted she was embarrassed to say she was the baby of The Teletubbies, so she hasn’t shared it with anyone. But in 2014 – when he was 19 – he revealed his past as a television superstar to his followers.
“I hid for a long time, but my classmates and friends from university encouraged me to tell. I’ve gained a lot of confidence and can now say it: I’m the sun of the Teletubbies,” the teenager wrote.
The young woman also shared on her Facebook account that she initially shared her secret with her college friends for a game, but didn’t want anyone else to know. However, they convinced her to make the news public, and she did.
For years, an American actress named Jessica Smith was mistaken for little “Baby Sun,” but that was wrong: “I’m not sure why the actress claims to be the face, or why people think she is. He would have been 10 at the time of filming and he doesn’t even look like the baby.”
To verify that her confession was genuine, the Brits posted a document on Facebook, which they sent to her parents in 1996, informing them that she had been cast for the role.
The image quickly went viral and thousands of users, amazed to see the change in little “Baby Sun,” shared the publication with a nostalgic message: “We’re old.”
Has a daughter?
Recently, Smith caused a huge controversy on social media after uploading a photo of him hugging a baby. It was against this background that BBC presenter Greg James released the photo and assured that the young woman is already a mother: “The Teletubbies sun already has a son”.
Many netizens shared the publication and several memes were created around it. However, The Teletubbies’ official Twitter account posted a trill clarifying that the baby wasn’t Smith’s daughter.
The little girl’s real name is Berry, and she’s from London, England, and was chosen to play ‘Baby Sun’ in a new installment of The Teletubbies: ‘She’s ‘Baby Sun’ Jess Smith with our new ‘Baby Sun ‘Berry! Seeing Jess that big makes us feel old too.”
Additionally, in interviews with local media, Smith shared his thoughts on the new ‘Baby Sun’: “A lot of babies smile, but Berry is a one-of-a-kind smiley face that we know will make audiences smile too.”
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