Kerri-Anne Kennerley accused of “slut-shaming” female colleague on Studio 10
Keri-Anne Kennerley has been accused of “slut shaming” a female colleague live on air on Studio 10.
On Friday morning, 10 daily Senior Reporter Antoinette Latouff was invited on the morning show to take part in a segment on “Millennial Speak” where panelists pondered over whether words such as “woke” and “salty” should be added to the dictionary.
As the segment was finishing up, Kennerley revealed that she prefers calling people directly on the phone rather than texting when she suddenly looked at Ms Latouff’s legs and said, “Did you forget your pants today?”
Studio 10 co-hosts Natarsha Belling and Joe Hildebrand were completely taken aback by the question with Ms Latouff laughing awkwardly before explaining, “It’s a playsuit”.
“A playsuit?” repeated Kennerley.
It was then that Angela Bishop lept to Ms Latouff’s defence and said, “And she looks unbelievable!”
Kennerley, who had only learnt the phrase “thirsty” earlier in the segment, then said about Ms Latouff, “And she’s gonna be thirsty”.
Belling then immediately ended the segment.
Viewers at home were stunned by Kennerley’s shocking behavior, taking to Twitter to slam the veteran TV host, with one fan writing: “Maybe KAK should look up the words ‘I’m sorry’ and apologise to her co-host for that unnecessary comment. It was nasty”.
Another wrote: “KAK was so rude”.
Why is Kerri-Anne Kennerley slut shaming her colleague here on @Studio10au? @antoinette_news deserves an apology Kerri-Anne needs to finally be put in the bin where she belongs. pic.twitter.com/JQCfxwZtLh
— Clementine Ford 🧟♀️ (@clementine_ford) 14 December 2019
Asking your colleague if she “forgot her pants” on live television is disgraceful. @antoinette_news deserves much, much better from KAK (and so does everyone else).
An apology is needed at the absolute bare minimum.— Alex Bruce-Smith (@alexbrucesmith) 14 December 2019
Like, @antoinette_news fully got slut-shamed by #KAK on live national television and very much this is a sentence I did not think I would be saying on this fine Saturday afternoon but here we are.
— Jan Fran (@Jan__Fran) 14 December 2019
This isn’t the first time Kennerley has come under fire for making inappropriate comments, with the 66-year-old being a part of a string of controversies throughout the year.
Kerri-Anne has since apologised to Ms Latouff, revealing that the two had a "respectful" conversation.
"Kerri-Anne called Antoinette over the weekend and apologised for her comment. She reiterated her comment was not intended to cause offence. They had a respectful conversaton and Antoinette accepted her apology," a spokesperson told Yahoo Lifestyle.