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Jennifer Hawkins show in sex row
CHANNEL 7 has caused a major storm after showing a program featuring teenagers as young as 17 in highly suggestive sexual poses instead of the Olyroos live in the Australian team’s Olympic soccer opener.
Seven delayed the soccer telecast until after 9pm so Make Me A Supermodel could feature teenagers in skimpy underwear in the soft pornographic poses.
The move has outraged family groups and major football associations, who are furious with the network’s decision.
The Australian Family Association described the program hosted by former Miss Universe Jennifer Hawkins as “dangerous and highly toxic” television.
It is understood the Football Federation of Australia pleaded with the network and the Australian Olympic Committee to show the match against Serbia live. Ironically, it was shown live in the Serbian capital, Belgrade.
But the network refused point-blank, arguing it had a commitment to its audience to show Supermodel, which had premiered on Wednesday.
And the network defiantly refused to apologise to sports fans yesterday.
“We had other programming commitments and respect for other audiences so we can’t keep all the people happy all the time,” the network’s director of programming, Tim Worner, told the Herald Sun from Beijing.
“The ratings results from Thursday for Make Me a Supermodel and the soccer show the decision was vindicated,” he said.
Make Me A Supermodel averaged 1.18 million viewers nationally while the soccer telecast averaged 850,000 viewers.
But the Hawkins’ program was beaten on the night by the Nine Network’s wacky new show, Hole in the Wall which rates about 1.6million – a result Nine hopes will keep the former Miss Universe in second place and produce its biggest hit since the Underbelly gangland series..
Angela Conway of the Australian Family Association described the Supermodel program as tragic television.
“It is dangerous and highly toxic because the message to teenage girls is that their own prospects of success are based on body image and how to market themselves sexually,” she said.
source: news.com.au
