The fallout from Sunrise’s ill-advised sex and the city skit has descended in to a sledging match between Sunrise host Samantha Armytage and ABC presenter Virginia Haussegger.
In a Facebook post on Tuesday evening Haussegger responded to Armytage’s claim that she’d had to google the ABC presenter.
“I couldn’t help but smile when I just heard that Sam Armytage told Mamamia she had to Google to find out who I was,” she wrote.
“I guess Sam has wiped it from her memory … or perhaps forgotten, but she once applied for a job here in Canberra to join our newsroom.
“I was on the interview panel, and [unfortunately] she didn’t get the job. But I recall she was an excellent candidate,” said Haussegge
Armytage had told Mamamia that she’d had to google Haussegger following a scathing column from the Canberra journalist that referred to Armytage as the “dumb chicks ringleader” and her fellow female breakfast show hosts “daft”, “ditzy” and “po-faced”.
Armytage also defended herself in a News.com.au column in which she hit back at Haussegger. “[Haussegger uses] the most base, vile and derogatory terms to describe not only a fellow woman, but a woman in her own profession.
“Why is it that some of those who shout the loudest about feminism are the most unkind to other women?” she wrote.
While Armytage has received support from media professionals such as Richard Glover and Ita Buttrose, Kirstin Davis, the former sex and the city actress at the centre of the drama has given Haussegger the thumbs up.
“Thank you for your piece in @smh. I’m trying to tell these women’s story,” Davis tweeted with a photograph of the UNHCR pamphlet featuring the image of a female Congolese refugee.
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