I would hope this couldn't happen today, but according to a new book, it did - and to one of the most famous people on the planet. 

The tome reports that Lucille Ball - of I Love Lucy fame - found out she was pregnant from a gossip columnist on the radio. Walter Winchell had somehow been leaked information about the comedienne's test results from a lab and she was listening to his show when she discovered her attempts to get pregnant worked.

But imagine finding out that way!

"In June 1950, during the New York run of their vaudeville show, Lucy was relaxing in her dressing room between shows listening to Walter Winchell’s radio broadcast when she heard him announce she was 'infanticipating,' the columnist’s lingo for 'pregnant.' He’d been tipped off by a medical lab informant before the Arnazes themselves had learned the news."

Lucille Ball Found Out She Was Pregnant When Her Medical Records Were Leaked During Radio Broadcast

The book also makes the case that Desi Arnaz was a true TV pioneer who never gets his due. It was Desi who refused to allow CBS to "kinescope" his show - shooting it off a TV monitor to eventually replay it back to the west coast, a process that resulted in a poor quality copy. 

Instead, he proposed it be filmed using three cameras and edited together, a process that has since become the standard - and perhaps unintentionally inventing the rerun.

How Desi Arnaz finally gets his due in ‘The Man Who Invented Television’