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Calls to dump ‘Spida’ Everitt travel show

Former AFL player turned TV presenter 'Spida" Everett makes Twitter comments that have resulted in calls for his travel show to be dumped.

Former AFL player turned TV presenter Peter ‘Spida” Everett has made comments on Twitter about an investigation of alleged rape involving AFL players that has landed him in hot water.

This morning he tweeted “Yet another alleged girl, making alleged allegations, after she awoke with an alleged hangover and I take it an alleged guilty conscience”

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“Girls!! When will you learn! At 3am when you are blind drunk & you decide to go home with a guy ITS NOT FOR A CUP OF MILO! Allegedly.”

It follows a Police investigation into a woman making allegations about a sexual assault after Collingwood’s grand final win. Collingwood has confirmed two players were interviewed but no charges have been laid.

Reaction on Twitter was swift, with many calling for his travel show The Great Australian Doorstep to be dumped from Pay TV.

“I hope Spida Everitt is not involved in mentoring young footballers (or anyone else),” commented Chafule.

“Seems the AFL respect for women programme did not quite make it to Spida,” tweeted Cam3192.

Opinion website The Punch also weighed into the debate: “It would probably make more sense for his employers to demand that he visit a sexual assault counselling centre for some humiliating but educational face time with professionals who deal with rape victims. It would also probably be helpful if, rather than maintaining his puerile and laughable defence of his appalling comments via twitter, he had the decency to admit that what he said was just wrong, and to apologise and withdraw the remarks.”

Everitt responded to the reaction with:

“Clearly a lot of u are not reading my tweets correctly,” he tweeted. “As my tweet states very clearly everything is alleged.”

“I never said I support rape infact if u look I have never mentioned the word rape.”

A Foxtel spokesperson confirmed to TV Tonight that Everitt is not contracted with FOX Sports, the How To Channel, or any other Foxtel channels. The Great Australian Doorstep is not currently airing on the Pay TV platform.

It is however airing on Saturday afternoons on 7TWO, as one of the few first-run local products on the channel. The acquired series, produced by Everitt’s own production company, sees him travel around Australia in a mobile home with his family.

Seven had no immediate comment on the matter.

33 Responses

  1. @goonies. No i wasn;t. But the police thought no action need be taken. So i will rely on their assessments. Instead of your emotion. But as i said. He hasn’t said anything wrong. All he is doing is taken a different track. Instead of saying. “another football player, allegedly” sexually assaulted a woman.” He just took it from the footballers point of view. And evidently. When compared to other cases such as these. The correct one.

  2. It is offensive because if a girl goes home with a guy he makes it seem like she surrenders all control over her body, loses all rights to change her mind, loses all rights to decide what acts are performed. She may have been fine with doing one thing but if something other than what she had in mind is proposed does she not deserve the right to change her mind? What if he has a violence fetish or something else, she has to say yes to that too just coz she went home with him? Women are not objects or slaves, they have a right to decide and to change their minds at any point, just as a man can. It is very sad that some people have trouble understanding this, just think how you would feel if someone made you do something you really didn’t want to just coz you were okay with the idea of something else hours ago. We don’t know what happened here and probably never will know specifics like that so don’t think you know what happened, everyone has a right to their own body and everyone can reassess a situation at any time.

  3. @Gil, no-one knows what happened, but we have to remember that young people don’t have the life experience needed to assess and anticipate like grown ups do, so it’s unfair of us to put these expectations on them. When things like this happen, the burden of responsiblity needs to be on the ones who Should know better.

  4. I support Spida, I think he speaks the truth, but so many people are self-righteous PC freaks that everything’s screwed up and nobody knows how to act or talk any more.

  5. I think his second point is quite true. Same with the woman who went to Mike Tyson’s apartment at 1am – what do you think he wanted – to play a few games of Hungry Hippo?.

  6. I get what he is saying, that not all women are entirely innocent in these situations, but he expressed it very poorly indeed (‘alleged allegations’ Huh?). He wasn’t there, he is not party to the investigation, he should just shut the hell up and let the authorities take care of it. Nobody needs his two cents worth.

  7. the question I ask is how many girls out there have done it? or how many of you know someone who has thrown themseleves at a guy only to regret it the next day? It happens and I don’t think you should tarnish All footy players with the same brush. Maybe this guy could have worded it a little better? however, I can see where the frustration of a few footballers is coming from, I’ve seen an example first hand of these girls who simply wanna bag a footy player or cry foul to sell their story & it aint pretty. Look what happend to Brett Stewart!!

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