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Ooops. “…Dodi’s the dead one, sorry.”
One of the more bizarre commentary moments from the Royal Wedding was when the King of Tonga entered Westminster Abbey.
- Published by David Knox
- on May 2, 2011
- Filed under News
One of the more bizarre commentary moments from the Royal Wedding (and that’s not counting anything Fitzy said) would have to go to Nine, when the King of Tonga entered Westminster Abbey.
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25 Responses
@Robbie – No, sorry, I’m one of the 76% who don’t believe in the SMS voting nonsense. Polled here.
Perhaps a vote for the Jeff Goldblum Memorial Logie, to be presented by Richard Wilkins, or one named after the pommie dork Nine had in London as a know-all “commentator”.
I watched UKTV’s broadcast and it was very smooth. I switched it over to FTA every now and then, but quickly excaped back to the experts.
At least you know it was ‘real’ live television! ‘That’s a surpise’ alright! Talk about ‘foot in thier mouths’!
You stay classy Channel 9.
Why is anyone a racist for confusing the two. At a quick glance they look remarkably alike. Calling people racist on this is just ridiculous
exactly why I didn’t watch on 9.
As if the mis-identification wasn’t bad enough (didn’t they have an official guest list?), saying that Dodi was “the dead one” is incredibly disrespectful. It’s not just the use of the word ‘dead’, it’s ‘the’ and ‘one’ either side of it, like you’d use to refer to a plant or an insect.
Pretty racist in fact, but I’d be willing to bet that the buffoon who said it, still wouldn’t see what was wrong with it.
@ Kenny
Can I count on you for a vote to win a Gold Logie next year:):):)
My mistake I apoligize to David & TV Tonight readers.
Can I just say there is a resembelance though.
And the thing is the credible commentary of the BBC sans an old man wearing a frock identified him as the King of Tonga as he entered. Along with many of the other Royals from other countries.
Did Nine eventually offer an apology?
And James Whittaker calls himself a Royal Correspondent !
@ Walter, lol, at a distance he really did look like Mohamed Al Fayed I agree.
@ Robbie, seriously mate, it has been explained clearly now that it was the King of Tonga, and you still think it was Al Fayed. Do you really think they would invite someone who basically accused them of murder?
hahaha, so funny. When he walked in, I started to explain to my daughter who he was, re Harrods, etc, then I realised there’s no way he would be at the wedding. Then I felt like a fool and my daughter rubbed it in, enjoying one of the rare times I’m wrong and she called me racist. Sigh.
Completely unprofessional and embarrassing for that to come from Nine, considering that in their promos for the Royal Wedding, they claimed to be the most professional team.
@ Robbie – Hello, it is the King of Tonga! Go to
google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=King+of+Tonga+royal+wedding&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1021&bih=508
Look at the photos. He’s wearing the same grey suit, white shirt and blue tie.
You should fit in well with the Nine commentary team, no problems at all.
Robbie: It is King George Tupou V.
Wow. You can tell the guy is polynesian… I guess ethnic people are just all the same to some people!
…and the Richard Wilkins Jeff Goldblum Logie goes to….
At least they would keep it in the network.
Disrespectful morons.
Why does the Nine Network care about the King of Tonga? :S
Oh my God, that commentator actually said “no, Dodi is the dead one.”, not Dodi is deceased or Dodi has passed away. Talk about disrespectful, that’s shocking. I’ve heard that the Nine commentary was a complete shambles.
That definately was Mohamed Al Fayed not the King of Tonga David.
Lets give them the gold logie for next year now!
How embarassment!
I actually thought it was Mohammed Al Fayed before the commentators said it, but was puzzled as to how he could have been invited, then it was all cleared up.
Very classy.