Former West Coast and Carlton great Chris Judd has found himself on the nose after an ill-worded comment about his deodorant at an event raising funds to fight kids cancer.
The segment was quickly pulled from The Footy Show on Thursday night, but not before many footy fans took to social media to vent their anger, while others supported the two-time Brownlow medallist for what they saw as a ‘poor choice of words’.
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In a cross for the My Room telethon Shane Crawford asked Judd what deodorant he was wearing.
“It’s a natural deodorant,” Judd replied.
“The by-product of that is that it doesn’t actually work, but I’m not going to die of cancer.”
Many took to Twitter to rip into the Blues board member, but there were others prepared to accept it was simply a joke gone wrong.
Oh my god! Disgusting #chrisjudd I cannot believe what you just said!!! #9AFLFootyShow
— Suzie (@SSASvictoria) August 9, 2018
So Chris Judd thinks deodorant causes cancer?
— Ellen Veronica (@EllenMVeronica) August 9, 2018
So many outraged by Chris Judd, people make silly mistakes. Worse part is he is afraid of deodorant.
— Brent Breytenbach (@brentbreyt) August 9, 2018
What’s really interesting is people are actually expecting intelligent comments from Chris Judd.
— SlamChops (@ChopsSlam) August 9, 2018
The question from Crawford and its response does suggest Judd had pre-prepared the line and had plenty of time to think about whether it was in suitable taste.
It’s not the first time the former Eagles premiership captain has found himself in trouble over comments. Responding to a fan’s query in March this year about Nic Naitanui’s future, Judd tweeted “I reckon he’ll be black playing good footy this year”.
The tweet was edited four hours later and elicited a laugh from Nic Nat.
I reckon he’ll be black playing good footy this year.
— Chris Judd (@cjayfive) March 5, 2018
Haha 😂😂 fair chance I’ll be both https://t.co/kX7yNn3Bqz
— Nic Naitanui (@NicNat) March 5, 2018