Leila McKinnon’s response to comments about her new lisp is a lesson on how to handle criticism.

by Mamamia Team January 6, 2016

Thomething thtrange was going on with Leila McKinnon last night.

A Current Affair reporter McKinnon, 43, spoke with a never-before-heard lisp on the show.

.@leilamckinnon reports following the death of another young person to an alleged one punch attack. #ACA9 https://t.co/v9trNHz12z

— A Current Affair (@ACurrentAffair9) January 4, 2016

Predictably, viewers needed to tell McKinnon about the lisp immediately.

McKinnon took the speculation in good humour, shutting down talk of tongue-piercings and cosmetic surgery in one excellently-worded tweet:

Thankth for your interetht in my lithp, yeth I have braceth now, not great in my job but I’m working on it @ACurrentAffair9 #ACA — leilamckinnon (@leilamckinnon) January 4, 2016

She followed it up with another tweet applauding the theorists on their creativity, but confirming the lisp was caused by an orthodontist rather than a plastic surgeon:

Not a tongue piercing, not lip filler, but thanks for the theories. Just an awful open bite @ACurrentAffair9 #ACA — leilamckinnon (@leilamckinnon) January 4, 2016