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Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
Sat May 20, 2017, 11:11 AM May 2017

BBC presenter slapped after touching womans chest live on air

DUBAI: BBC presenter Ben Brown was slapped live on air Tuesday after he appeared to touch a woman’s chest in an attempt to push her off camera.
Brown was in the middle of an interview with the BBC’s assistant political editor Norman Smith in Bradford when a woman stepped into the shot flashing a thumbs-up sign.
The presenter gently pushed her away and continued with his interview, but not before the surprised looking woman slapped him on the arm and walked away.




http://www.arabnews.com/node/1100886/media

interesting to read the news slants in other countries.
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BBC presenter slapped after touching womans chest live on air (Original Post) Sunlei May 2017 OP
Headline sensationalizes Loki Liesmith May 2017 #1
Gotta disagree... RoBear May 2017 #3
Lol. cwydro May 2017 #4
So, the woman invaded a telecast? Blue_true May 2017 #5
Don't agree Loki Liesmith May 2017 #6
you may need your eyes checked obamanut2012 May 2017 #7
Purely accidental. yallerdawg May 2017 #2
I think he was reaching for her arm lunatica May 2017 #8

RoBear

(1,188 posts)
3. Gotta disagree...
Sat May 20, 2017, 01:08 PM
May 2017

I think she should have slapped his stuped face, OR kicked him in the nuts.

Then perhaps file charges against the bastard. That was a deliberate grab of the breast, and it looks to me like where he touched her WASN'T accidental.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
5. So, the woman invaded a telecast?
Sat May 20, 2017, 01:48 PM
May 2017

Maybe he should have paid more attention to where he touched her when pushing her away, but pushing her away was the right thing to do.

Loki Liesmith

(4,602 posts)
6. Don't agree
Sat May 20, 2017, 02:05 PM
May 2017

Looked like he was barely even looking at her. He was trying to maintain eye contact with the subject of the interview.

Sorry just not gonna agree.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
8. I think he was reaching for her arm
Sat May 20, 2017, 02:22 PM
May 2017

That was.no groping gesture. He wasn't focused on where his hand was.

Who's going to grope a woman on camera? And while having an interview with someone? Give me a break!

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