7News anchors talking about DjokovicChannel 7
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Seven Network hosts call tennis player “asshole” and “lying idiot” in off-camera snippet circulating online
The directors of the channel are looking for the “mole” that has spread the “illegal recording”
In the network there is speculation with the theory that everything is a marketing campaign
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A week after the outbreak of the Djokovic case, and awaiting Immigration Minister Alex Hawke’s decision on the withdrawal of his visa and deportation from Australia, the The country’s television has been involved in a scandal over the leaking of a video in which its presenters insult the number one in tennis.
In the fragment that has jumped to social networks, recorded by a Open mic backstage at Channel 7 The presenters Rebecca Maddern and Mike Amor call Djokovic a “sneaky asshole” and a “lying idiot”, for “cheating and falsifying documents to enter Australia”. “No matter how you look at it, Novak Djokovic is a lying and cunning idiot,” says the presenter, who questioned whether Djokovic had lied about his recent travel moves on his Australian Travel Declaration form, when the co-presenter added: “I think he’ll get away with it.”
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The directors of the channel look for the “mole” that has leaked the “illegal recording”
Rebecca Maddern has apologized while the directors of the private chain claim to be investigating to find the “mole” that has leaked the images. At the same time, all kinds of theories surrealisms around the leak, as if everything could obey a marketing campaign.
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Seven Network news and public affairs director Craig McPherson said in a statement that “The illegal recording was of a private conversation between two colleagues. It was a shady and cowardly act who violated listening device legislation, whose perpetrator will be prosecuted accordingly when found.”
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