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Paul O'Hare

Girl who had her third birthday party gatecrashed by Sir David Attenborough in a hot air balloon is reunited with TV legend

Sir David Attenborough has been reunited with a woman 35 years after he gatecrashed her third birthday party – when his hot air balloon crashlanded on a Scots farm.

Julie Paterson was just three when the broadcasting legend was involved in an emergency landing in Earnieside Farm in Dunning Glen by Dollar, Clackmannanshire.

Sir David, who was wearing a space suit and moon boots, knocked on the door of the family farm and was greeted by Julie’s dad.

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