The Project’s new panellist Michael Hing left the viewers in shock after he joked that he wished Prince Andrew was lifeless.
During Tuesday’s episode of the news program, the comic and fellow panellist Kate Langbroek mirrored on the key occasions over the previous yr, together with the dying of Queen Elizabeth II in September.
“2022 was so depressing, obviously, the Queen died, but maybe next year will be better and Prince Andrew will die,” Hing stated.
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The offcolour joke brought about a stir with the studio viewers, with audible groans heard.
Reacting to the gang’s response, Triple J Drive host Hing replied: “Come on! Are you defending Prince Andrew now?”
Meanwhile, his co-stars laughed on the comment.
“Is he your person of the year?” Langbroek requested, to which Hing replied, “No!”
One Twitter consumer slammed Hing’s feedback.
“Calling for someone to die is totally inappropriate on any tv show no matter what you think Michael Hing #theprojecttv,” they tweeted.
Andrew was stripped of all his patronages and navy titles after changing into embroiled in a civil lawsuit introduced by Jeffrey Epstein intercourse trafficking sufferer Virginia Giuffre, who accused the Duke of York of sexually abusing her when she was 17.
The Prince settled the case with an enormous payout alleged to be as a lot as $A26.5 million.
Andrew, who’s eighth in line to the throne, was pressured to step again from royal duties in late 2019, after a disastrous tv interview wherein he tried to defend his hyperlinks to Epstein.
Public outrage on the time noticed a number of charities and associations distance themselves from him.
He has vehemently denied Giuffre’s allegations.
