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Sunrise tells Kristin Davis: ‘We are Sex & the City tragics”

Kristin Davis went to Sunrise to discuss refugees and her UN work, but ended up beside Sam Armytage wearing a bad wig.

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Sunrise has ‘apologised’ to US actress Kristin Davis for being “Sex and the City tragics” after a asking her to join Sam Armytage (in a bad wig), Edwina Bartholomew & Natalie Barr (in another wig) reading bad melodrama dialogue.

Davis, who appeared to discuss her role as United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, took to Twitter after Sunrise posted a tweet saying, “What is going on here?”

“I could ask you the same thing,” Davis replied, before the original tweet was deleted. She also retweeted two negative tweets including calling it “the worst piece of TV I’ve ever seen.”

On air a bewildered Davis went along with the show’s request, despite asking “Seriously?” and looking off-camera at crew.

Executive Producer Michael Pell “We are Sex and the City tragics at Sunrise. Our obsession may have gotten the better of us. We apologise for the bad acting and terrible costumes and we thank Kristin for being such a good sport. She is one of the most gracious stars we’ve had at Brekky Central.”

Before the bad acting segment, Davis had been interviewed by Armytage and David Koch over her UN work, with footage of in Africa and asked her about an international crisis.

“There are 60 million displaced people in the world,” she said. “That kind of disruption and unrest within these countries is bad for everyone. It’s how terrorists are able to get a foothold in different countries when the people are disenfranchised, have nobody to turn to. They will turn to whoever will help them. Unfortunately, it is organisations which do not wish all of us well. So the UNHCR is there for refugees, they are the frontline, they are not a political party they are humanitarian aid. I think it’s important just as a human being to realise that it’s in everyone’s best points to take care of those who find themselves in dire circumstances.”

 


Via: News Corp

34 Responses

  1. That was one of the worse things Ive seen. The skit was just plain rubbish but what got me is that Koch just went “ok now lets talk sex and the city” belittling what she was actually there for.

  2. Hmmm, I wonder if this article would have been published had it not been for the Sex And The City sketch. I think not.
    I doubt David Knox would you have even published this article about Kristin Davis’ UNHCR campaign if not for the controversy.
    To publish her speech and video is commendable (although followed by the wig video) but he is no better than any other media outlets in milking this.
    Stop pretending to care about Kristin’s cause when you don’t.

    1. Respectfully you argument makes no sense. Of course this article wouldn’t have been published if not for the sketch. The sketch and the fallout was the reason it became news. It was one of the biggest TV news stories of the week, I would be remiss not to report it. As for “pretending to care” I haven’t given my personal view on her cause. I also put my name on my views, Duckie.

  4. Would someone at 7 please let the incredibly dull Samantha Armytage know she is not the story – even though she attempts to make everything about her.

    And what was Michael Pell thinking? This was on his watch.

    Such an embarrassment – thank God for ABC News Breakfast. Intelligent people doing a great job.

    1. I imagine the brass at Seven will be unamused by this barrage of very negative publicity. I think some harsh reprimands will be handed out and they will have to institute checks and balances on exactly how an interview segment with a particular star is going to proceed, get clearance first with agents, etc, as it was fairly obvious that Davis was not on board with this.

  6. Absolutely terrible and a disrespectful way to treat Kristin Davis who is here in her role as rep for the UNHCR, not for playing Charlotte, a role that ceased 12 years ago. The segment producer who came up with this skit deserves to be sacked. Really, quite unacceptable and it has blown up in their faces, big time.

  7. The skit just exemplified the joke that Sunrise has become.
    Sure Kristin Davis would be faced with Sex In The City questions everywhere she goes, but she was there for a serious cause. Making a mockery of her and the cause was poor form.
    On a side note, what exactly is Edwina’s role? She was become a very awkward fifth wheel.

  8. Are there any Sunrise vs Today comparisons over the past 2 years or so that demonstrate the slide to Today. I think it will continue to build post the latest Sunrise changes.

  10. Disgraceful, maybe the agents or managers of the people who come on sunrise boycott it until somekind of courtesy is exchanged to the guest/guests? How many times has this now happened where a celebrity was on sunrise, and was embarassed by some outlandish stunt or situation set up by kochie and sam etc?

      1. Didn’t Melissa George get very irate a few years ago when, after being booked on Sunrise to discuss her latest TV series, she instead got subjected to a series of questions about her time in Home & Away?

  14. Don’t think that the point of her visit was in any way distracted from the interview, it was all about that in the beginning of the segment and I am sure that her role in Sex and the City is automatically going to be of interest as it was this role that she is best know for.

    1. She would expect to answer SATC questions in order to promote her cause. It’s a trade-off and she happily did that. I doubt she was aware of the sketch though. Ironically the fall-out has actually given more attention to her cause ….not that it justifies it.

      1. Was just about to post something very similar along these lines, David. She can’t trade off her SATC fame and then not expect it to be a feature of her promotion work.
        And for the upwards comment, it looks like Today is beating Sunrise now more often.

  15. I’m a loyal viewer and I turned off Sunrise for the first time this morning. The new weather guy is cringeworthy but thankfully in small doses but I couldn’t watch the Sex and the City acting segment, I switched over to the ABC half way through. Having 5 people around that desk plus Nelson, the new weather guy and a handful of live reporters is starting to feel a bit overkill.

  16. It was the most ridiculous skit ever performed on Australian television. Even worse than a Studio 10 skit. Ok if it was funny but it was just painfull. Viewers took their rage to the sunrise facebook page

  17. So, I am sure she expected some questions about the show, but seriously, shouldn’t her taking part in some nonsense like that have been vetted with her and her agent? And I can’t believe that during a production meeting nobody indicated the skit perhaps wasn’t the best idea.

  18. Michael Pell has had some bad moments as producer. One was having Gabbi Gecko and Geoffrey Edelsten on last year because apparently he thought viewers would be interested and also this morning.

    But it’s not like they didn’t mention her work she is here for.

  19. Sam is hosting a fundraising lunch tomorrow with Kristin that includes a Q&A. Might be a little awkward. Yes it was painfullly bad but does it deserve this level of outrage, no. They talked about her UN role for the first 3-4mins of the interview so it’s not like they didn’t discuss it at all like some sites are trying to imply.

  20. Perhaps not the best TV segment, but lighten up people, it was meant to be funny and with so much tragedy happening lately every time you turn on the TV its nice to have a few minutes of stupidity time. Don’t think the Americans can appreciate our sense of humour.

    2. There’s a difference between natural lightheartedness and banter and a contrived situation that is so unnatural that it distracts from the point of her visit.

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