At the Big W, John Inverdale asked Radio 5 listeners after Marion Bartoli finished off Williams-upsetter Sabine Lisicki, her first Grand Slam title, “Do you think Bartoli’s dad told her when she was little 'You’re never going to be a looker? You’ll never be a Sharapova, so you have to be scrappy and fight.’”
He tried to portray his line as "nice" afterward, but given his past history of what some call "sexist and patronising," it wasn't washing with, say, the Twitterverse... Dr Walter Bartoli, let it be said, stayed cool about it... Telegraph<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/tennis/wimbledon/10164511/Wimbledon-2013-BBC-apologise-for-John-Inverdales-Bartoli-not-a-looker-comment.html> -- B. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
