{"id":26174,"date":"2023-08-06T23:02:45","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T23:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/chris-hughes-told-barbie-comment-was-not-appropriate-by-bbc\/"},"modified":"2023-08-06T23:02:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T23:02:47","slug":"chris-hughes-told-barbie-comment-was-not-appropriate-by-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/chris-hughes-told-barbie-comment-was-not-appropriate-by-bbc\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Hughes told Barbie comment was ‘not appropriate’ by BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Chris Hughes (right) with former England captain Michael Vaughan on the opening day of this year’s Hundred<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Presenter Chris Hughes has been told by the BBC a comment he made to Australian all-rounder Maitlan Brown during The Hundred was “not appropriate”.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hughes interviewed Brown, 26, pitchside during BBC Two’s coverage of Southern Braves’ win over Trent Rockets.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

After Brown said she had been to see the Barbie movie with her Braves team-mates, Hughes replied: “You’re a little Barbie yourself with your blue eyes.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Hughes, who first found fame on Love Island, added: “She’s blushing now.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The comments were criticised on social media.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a statement, a spokesperson for the BBC said: “We have spoken to Chris and explained that his comment was not appropriate.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Brown has played for the Australia A team and has received call-ups to the full Australia squad.<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to presenting coverage of The Hundred, Hughes has also worked on ITV’s horse racing programmes.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Chris Hughes (right) with former England captain Michael Vaughan on the opening day of this year’s Hundred Presenter Chris Hughes has been told by the BBC a comment he made to Australian all-rounder Maitlan Brown during The Hundred was “not appropriate”. Hughes interviewed Brown, 26, pitchside during BBC Two’s coverage of Southern Braves’ win over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41],"tags":[1720,173,2592,7766,6662,99],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26176,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26174\/revisions\/26176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}