The Katherine teenager appeared on the show to discuss his $1 million fishing competition win, but host Peter Stefanovic dredged up an event from his past.
A journalist who turned a feel-good story of Aboriginal success into an ugly ambush on live TV has deleted his social media in response to backlash to the incident. Sky News reporter Peter Stafanovic has been lambasted for perpetuating "a harmful and negative stereotype" following his trainwreck interview with Katherine teenager Keegan Payne.
The buggy was taken from Payne's then employer, Bob Cavanagh, who in an interview with the Daily Mail said there were no hard feelings over the incident. He said Payne was a "good kid", and that the group of friends had worked weekends for him free of charge to say sorry. Stefanovic's ambush of Payne was swiftly condemned online.
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