“Keep it in your pants son”: Radio hosts react to Clarke vs. Stefanovic fight
Former Australian cricketer Michael Clarke has been slammed after the video footage of his fight with his girlfriend, Jade Yarbrough and The Today Show host, Karl Stefanovic, went viral.
2GB Radio host Ben Fordham slammed the former cricketer for dragging Stefanovic into the fight.
“Karl Stefanovic’s name has been dragged into it because he happened to be there and Michael Clarke turned on Karl too,” he said on Thursday.
“Really, really disgraceful language that was used by Michael Clarke as far as I can see it’s got nothing to do with Karl apart from the fact he happened to be there.
“It’s between Michael Clarke and his girlfriends, it’s a shocker and the language used by Michael Clarke in a public place in front of children was utterly disgraceful.”
His co-host Ray Hadley also commented on Clarke's behaviour, implying that Clarke should grow up.
“I don’t know Michael Clarke but we’ve all had problems in life Michael, me included.
“But if I were to give advice to a 41-year-old male adult … it would be along the lines of ‘keep it in your pants son,'" he said
KIIS106.5 host, Kyle Sandilands, also commented on the drama saying that he "nearly died" when he first found out about the incident.
His co-host Jackie O expressed her shock: "my jaw is to the floor and I’m like ‘I can’t believe what I’m seeing’ thinking this is not the Michael Clarke I know".
Sandilands claimed that he had been in "thousands of fights like that," and chuckled as he asked the question we've all been thinking: "why are they shirtless in a public park?"
“If we all sit around and we think what’s our worst fight we’ve ever ever had with our partner, imagine someone filming that and putting that on The Daily Telegraph … No thanks. I’d disappear forever, you’d never see me again,” he added.
His co-host agreed, and said that she would "leave the country for two months".
The radio hosts speculated that Karl Stefanovic's involvement in the drama was simply because he was trying to "diffuse" the situation.
“Who wants to get up and shoehorn themselves into someone else’s argy bargy? I think Karl was walking away,” said Kyle.
"I hope they do alright," he added.
Although the public scuffle wasn't mentioned on The Today Show, Stefanovic was asked about it while getting drinks at the Australian Open.
"You know what the answer is going to be," he reportedly said to the Herald Sun.
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