Since the Channel Nine clip of the now so-called ‘wardrobe meltdown’ was leaked, it has spread like wildfire across the internet and around the world.
Now, the footage of newsreader Amber Sherlock reproaching colleague Julie Snook for failing to wear a jacket has – unfortunately for them – landed squarely into the hands of US TV host Jimmy Kimmel.
“I don’t know who decided to release this tape but whoever that was I just want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart,” Kimmel said, before playing snippets of the video.
Kimmel afterward joked, “it’s like a comedy there. Get those women on The View immediately.”
The View is a popular talk show hosted only by women in the US.
Kimmel, 49, then made the rather premature prediction this could turn out to be the most memorable clip of 2017.
"I know it’s early but it could turn out to be clip of the year right there," he said.
While Kimmel might be thanking the person who leaked the video, the Nine Network is seeing things very, very differently.
The TV station has reportedly tracked down the person who downloaded the video internally, but not yet flushed out who then sent the footage to the media.
“There are only a handful of people who could have been responsible for the video spreading,” a source inside the station told The Daily Telegraph.
It's not known what action will be taken against the person, but it the leak has been widely described as a "sackable offence".
It was reported by Yahoo7Be that Sherlock was yesterday to meet with Nine's national director of news Darren Wick and HR representatives to discuss the incident and the resulting fallout.
Sherlock and Snook both addressed their wince-inducing exchange in statements to 9Honey.
"I probably overreacted with the pressure of presenting a live news bulletin," Sherlock said.
Snook added that the two were "good friends".
"News is a fast moving environment and sometimes these things happen," Snook said.
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Oh for Petes sake. This is a mountain out of a molehill. I've worked in Tv for years and you have no idea how minutely what you see is scrutinized. I am completely unsurprised by this. Our job in production is to make sure you the audience are unaware of us and what we do so that all you see and hear is the story. The audience is supposed to be blissfully unaware of framing, lighting, makeup, camera angles, camera cutting, eyelines, the way someone is sitting and how their hair is styled so that you concentrate on the story. In an industry where font choice and color is scrutinized and tested over and over, something so glaringly obvious as all three wearing the same color is a big deal to producers and presenters. The audience would notice. So yeah, she may have over reacted, but also remember how many people were involved and waiting on that interview. There was probably also a huge time constraint- because in News (where I've worked for years) everything has to have been done 5 minutes ago. The blonde reporter said she was snowed under? I don't doubt that for a second. And these people are about to be put to air to be veiled by about 100,000 people. Her over reaction has now been viewed by about a million people. So do you think maybe her job and getting it right the first time is important to her? Do you think maybe she's a bit stressed? My work is directly live to air and one mistake by me can be viewed by 100,000 people. I can tell you, from EXPERIENCE, that being live to air is nerve wracking and I'm not even in front of the camera. Get some perspective.
This is a classic case of people(men) loving to see women being catty and mean to each other. It does all women a disservice and feeds into a stereotype. Can we please let it go already?
Bloody (MEN)!
This is a website for women, the multiple articles about this are all from women, ninety percent of responses have been from women. How can you possibly see this is a classic case of how men are acting?
So, to apply that line of thinking, articles on domestic violence are a classic case of women loving to see men being violent and does a disservice to men in feeding a stereotype?
That doesn't sound right when you put the shoe on the other foot and it's not right to take a conversation between women and say it's all the evil patriarchy again.
Because this specific article is about Jimmy Kimmel's reaction, & he is a man, that's how.