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Sam Roberts

Pornstar Mia Khalifa imitates RTE star Teresa Mannion in viral TikTok

Pornstar Mia Khalifa led a bizarre crossover as she imitated RTE star Teresa Mannion's famous Storm Desmond monologue.

The Lebanese-American media personality shared the clip with her 30 million TikTok followers.

And the video quickly went viral, amassing over 60,000 likes in a matter of hours.

It features the now-legendary clip of Teresa warning RTE viewers: "Don't make unnecessary journeys, don't take risks on treacherous roads, and don't swim in the sea."

The sound is now popular with creators on TikTok, with Khalifa the latest star to avail of it, captioning the video: "My stylist whenever she sends me abroad with her best pulls and diamonds."

The immortal RTE moment saw journalist Teresa shoot to fame in 2015 after her news report on Storm Desmond live from Galway.

Her coverage took the internet by storm, with the video resulting in impressions, photoshopped images, and even a dance remix.

Explaining what happened that night, Teresa said: "I ended up doing a report on the Salthill prom in the middle of Storm Desmond, the technology had been updated to cope with that sort of level of wind and rain, and otherwise we would not have been able to have been so close to the Atlantic Ocean for a live news report because the pictures would have broken up."

She previously told RSVP Magazine: "It was absolutely treacherous and I didn’t know that I was shouting as loudly as I was because I was in my own little bubble.

"The weather intensified as the report continued, but I couldn’t stop because we were live and the rest is history.

"Within 48 hours the report had gone all around the world, there were dances remixes, memes and so many offspins created after the bulletin. I totally embraced it and took it on-board, there was very little negativity afterwards and I wasn’t trolled online.

"In fact, I was given legendary status which is very funny in my mind. On a serious note, I started working with the Road Safety Authority telling motorists how drive safely in hail, rain or snow.

"Ultimately, that is how I ended up on Dancing with the Stars because I became a little more high profile."

Later her editor at RTE told her that she was trending number one on Twitter in Ireland by the end of the bulletin.

Teresa Mannion during dramatic weather report (RTE/Twitter)

She said: "It was a short Sunday evening report so that would have been 10 or 15 minutes after transmission. From there, Buzzfeed and various other entertainment websites started to pick up on the story and it ended up on the front of the London Independent the next day.

"It was on broadsheet, tabloid and social media- it was getting traction from everywhere. It had gone around the world in 48 hours and I got 6,000 Twitter followers in two days, my phone kept on pumping. Ariana Grande and her dancers posted it on Snapchat and it was constantly being picked up.

"The Ellen DeGeneres Show Skyped me a few times and they talked about bringing me over to the states to talk about it, but it was so close to Christmas so it didn’t happen.

"The senior news editor of CNN got in touch and they did a report on it. I was doing back to back media interviews both home and abroad."

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