High-profile entertainment reporter Peter Ford has stopped short of apologising for a tweet labelling Lidia Thorpe a ‘skank’, but says he deleted so as not to offend others.
Ford levelled the insult at the independent senator following her foul-mouthed outburst toward King Charles and Queen Camilla at a Parliament House reception on Monday.
Sen. Thorpe waited until King Charles finished his address before accusing him of genocide and demanding a treaty be drawn up with Indigenous Australians.
Ford took to X on Monday to call her a ‘skank’ and a ‘shocker’, but on Tuesday was more contrite.
‘So yesterday in commentary about Lidia Thorpe I used a word in this space that some people (who I trust not ‘outraged’ people on Twitter) thought was unfair,’ he wrote.
‘Although it’s a word you’d hear on Kath and Kim I have deleted it. I wanted to make a point not cause offence. Cheers. PF.’
Ford declined to comment further on the matter when contacted by Daily Mail Australia.
The entertainment reporter, who works for Channel Seven, had described Ms Thorpe as a ‘skank’ in two separate comments on X.
High-profile entertainment reporter Peter Ford has remained tight-lipped after he was forced to delete a tweet labelling Lidia Thorpe a ‘skank’
When another social media user accused him of being a misogynist, the entertainment reporter doubled down.
‘You may not like the term – and think it unfair – but it’s not misogynistic,’ he replied.
At the time of Ms Thorpe’s interruption of the reception at Parliament House, Ford called her a ‘shocker’.
‘So everyone must respect the Welcome To Country ceremonies. But Lidia – who signed oath to the Crown – doesn’t have to respect the reigning Monarch when choosing to be in his presence,’ he wrote.
‘What a shocker she is!’
Ford also took aim at the possum skin cloak Ms Thorpe had been wearing during the outburst, providing a sharp response to someone’s question about what she was wearing
‘Vermin ironically,’ Ford wrote in response.
Dressed in the fur skin, Ms Thorpe, 51, shouted that the monarch had ‘committed genocide against our people’ and added ‘f*** the colony’ on Monday.
‘Give us what you stole from us. Our bones, Our skulls our babies, our people. You destroyed our land. Give us a treaty. We want a treaty,’ she continued.
Ford had levelled the insult at the independent senator following her foul-mouthed outburst at Parliament House on Monday.
As security guards began to usher Thorpe away, she became more animated and continued to shout: ‘This is not your land. This is not your land. You are not my King. You are not my King.’
Buckingham Palace declined to comment on Thorpe’s outburst in Parliament House, but sources brushed off the lone protestor, saying Their Majesties were ‘deeply touched’ at the warmth of the welcome they had received throughout the day.
The King and Queen, who were still seated on the stage during the confrontation, appeared to take no notice as the King turned to speak to prime minister Anthony Albanese and Camilla turned toward his fiancee Jodie Haydon.
They were seen laughing off the politician’s heckling and were said to be ‘unruffled’ by the tirade which they hoped would not overshadow what had been an otherwise ‘wonderful day’.
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