Nice one, Lisa. It’s good to see you out-Karling Karl.
It’s fair to say that Lisa Wilkinson is no stranger to awkward sexual innuendos slipping into harmless segments on The TODAY show – because, let’s face it, she works with Karl Stefanovic. So when she made an on-air ‘slip up’ that left her co-hosts in hysterics, we’re not really too sure anyone was all that surprised.
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Let’s set the scene. (Spoiler alert: the question left journalist Sylvia Jeffreys looking like this)…
Basically, a segment showing Sylvia in a Bear Grylls style challenge aired. And it consisted of what everyone is dying to watch while eating their breakfast: Jeffrey’s struggling to eat various bugs.
Lisa, seemingly innocently, followed this up with the obvious question: “So, did you swallow?”
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Her co-hosts, professional as always, didn’t know where to look or what to do with themselves as they tried to process how to respond.
Jeffreys, struggling to formulate an appropriate repsonse, replied, “I swallowed the worm … Lisa, anything else you’d like to say about that story that I worked very hard on for many hours?”
You can watch the whole segment below:
Looks like Karl was just happy that for once the joke wasn’t on him.
Top Comments
Whilst I found this very amusing it does make me wonder.....If Kochie or another Alpha male host had asked the same question of a female colleague would we all still find it funny?? I'm not so sure we would.
of course not but it wouldn't be the same, there would be a clear dichotomy in relationship/power it is a different playing field etc. to compare the two saying the comment is absurd.
But, isn't everyone equal and everyone's EXACTLY the same as each other and everyone's allowed to say WHATEVER they want whenever they want to?
Don't worry, I expect nothing but hypocrisy from liberals.
Um, no, everyone isn't equal. They should be, but they aren't. Hence, feminism.
People are 'equal' in the sense that they should have equal rights and be treated with equal respect - but that doesn't mean you can treat them identically, if it ignores historical or political context.
For example, if I make a joke saying a colleague has to be my slave for a day, it's going to be taken very differently if the person is African American than if they're anglo aussie. That's not hypocrisy, that's not being an ignorant idiot.
I'm shocked.