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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.

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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  1. @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”.

  2. 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.

  3. 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

  4. 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.

  5. 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?

  6. @ 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?

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. @ 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.

  10. 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.

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