What do you do if you're in the middle of a media interview and all of a sudden you're just dying of thirst. Now on the one hand, you don't want to be gulping repeatedly every 10 seconds. You don't want to look like that politician in the United States A number of years ago, who was giving a speech and then had to lunge awkwardly for water sip. As if he were a little boy stealing it and putting it back with the top back on you don't want to do that either. My advice is drink plenty of water before an interview. If you're on a longer show, a 30 minutes show a public affairs program a debate program, and it's lengthy Have some water next to you on a table or even on the floor.

Then during a commercial break or any other break, then drink. You should realize that unless you're doing TV interviews, every single day, you likely to be more nervous when you're doing an interview or you're in the media that's going to make you thirstier. So my advice is to drink plenty of water before the interview starts, even if you're not particularly thirsty. If it's a lengthy PR, I've been on some debate programs that lasted two hours. So I'm drinking throughout. Now, don't drink too much.

If you want to have to run to a restroom break, but have water and it's not the end of the world to drink. But do it when you're not speaking. don't introduce a subject be halfway through an answer and then stop and be seen awkwardly gulping and then continue. Wait till you're finished talking in the host or someone else's talking. If it is a live program or edited, taped and you simply feel like you can't wait until the next commercial break. Do that.

Don't act embarrassed, don't act rushed. Don't act flustered. Don't worry about putting the top back on the bus. It'll do that and it's fine. We're all human beings you get thirsty. Have a drink.