Brazilian journalist Felipe Kieling has gone viral on social media - after he had his live report interrupted by his infant son.

The UK correspondent for Radio BandNews FM was live from London yesterday reporting on Brazilian football player Neymar’s latest news, when his son Lucas woke up from a nap and called out.

Hearing the off-camera toddler, the anchors asked Felipe to pick him up to finish the report.

He told his colleagues that Lucas had an upset stomach and couldn't go to creche, while Felipe's wife, who is Irish, had an important meeting to attend.

Video footage of Felipe juggling his live report with Lucas grabbing his headset spread across social media.

Felipe later said it was an an opportunity to talk about working parents and fathers' roles in raising children.

"I even wonder if I were a mother, would it have gone viral? Or does society already expect a mother to work and take care of her child?

"I think it's important to talk about these kinds of things and also to debate about parents playing important roles.

"My wife works and my work is not more important than hers because I appear on TV or the radio. We both have important jobs."

On why the video struck a chord, he suggested: "Many people also enjoyed watching the video because they found themselves in the same situation.

"People who had to go to college with their children or had to go to the office with their children, and many people who went to work with their parents when they were children.

"So I think it happens in journalism and in any profession. These are normal situations, and we have to normalize them."

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