Michelle Mone's plea for a Kodak moment ended rather differently to how she expected.
The Glaswegian entrepreneur and Conservative peer scooped up what she thought was a 'six year old' to pose for a photo but it turned out she was holding a 46-year-old fully grown married man.
To make matters worse, the incident unfolded on stage at an entrepreneurs conference in Vietnam in front of an audience of around 3 000 people.
The 44-year-old Baroness of Mayfair, who is the founder of lingerie company Ultimo, has expressed her humiliation at the awkward incident.
“Most embarrassing moment. Speaking in Vietnam to 3 000 people, thought this was a 6 year old, picked him up, he's a MAN,”she wrote on Twitter.
The man initially approached Mone to present her with flowers, which she cordially received and then proceeded to pick him up so they could take a photo together.
“The guy was fine with it and the whole room was screaming with laughter,” Mone told The Mail On Sunday. “I thought something was wrong - his teeth were bright yellow from nicotine.”
The incident has prompted some discussion on Twitter ;While the majority found the ordeal hilarious, with June Sarpong writing, “Hilarious, brings new meaning to picking up a man”, others were less impressed;”So your multiplying the mans humiliation by tweeting it to amuse your brain dead supporters,” wrote one user.
The Independent