Australia’s youngest MP has slammed Nine Network for airing a doctored photograph of herself during Monday night’s Nine News Melbourne bulletin.
Animal Justice Party MP Georgie Purcell, 31, lashed out at the broadcaster via X (formerly Twitter) on Tuesday, claiming Nine used a photo that had was Photoshopped to make her breasts look bigger.
Ms Purcell was in the bulletin after she publicly slammed Jacinta Allan’s government’s decision not to ban duck shooting in Victoria.
In her post, Ms Purcell shared the image from the bulletin alongside the original photo, which was taken last year.
‘I endured a lot yesterday. But having my body and outfit photoshopped by a media outlet was not on my bingo card,’ she began her post.
Australia’s youngest MP Georgie Purcell, 31, (centre) has slammed Nine Network for airing a doctored photograph of herself during Monday night’s Nine News Melbourne bulletin. Ms Purcell is pictured next to Jacinta Allan in the graphic, in a bulletin presented by Nine newsreader Alicia Loxley
‘Note the enlarged boobs and outfit to be made more revealing. Can’t imagine this happening to a male MP. What gives?’
The image used by Nine showed Georgie wearing a crop top that showed her bare midriff.
Ms Purcell noted that this couldn’t have been her body for one very obvious reason – she has had her stomach tattooed since 2020.
Animal Justice Party MP Georgie Purcell, 31, lashed out at the broadcaster via X (formerly Twitter ) on Tuesday, claiming Nine used a photo that had was Photoshopped to make her breasts look bigger
‘Hot tip 9 I’ve got my whole stomach tattooed,’ she wrote.
Director of 9News Melbourne Hugh Nailon issued a grovelling apology to Ms Purcell on Tuesday after Daily Mail Australia approached Nine for comment.
‘I would like to sincerely apologise to Georgie Purcell for a graphic error that occurred in last night’s bulletin,’ Mr Nailon’s statement read.
The image used by Nine showed Georgie wearing a crop top that showed her bare midriff. However, in her post, Ms Purcell noted that this couldn’t have been her body for one very obvious reason – she has had her stomach tattooed since 2020
‘Our graphics department sourced an online image of Georgie to use in our story on duck hunting. As is common practice, the image was resized to fit our specs. During that process, the automation by Photoshop created an image that was not consistent with the original.’
‘This did not meet the high editorial standards we have and for that we apologise to Ms Purcell unreservedly.’
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