{"id":31452,"date":"2015-11-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/amanda-vanstone-under-fire-for-shocking-bindi-irwin-comment\/"},"modified":"2015-11-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T00:00:00","slug":"amanda-vanstone-under-fire-for-shocking-bindi-irwin-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/amanda-vanstone-under-fire-for-shocking-bindi-irwin-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"Amanda Vanstone under fire for shocking Bindi Irwin comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>After winning Dancing With The Stars in the US, Bindi Irwin was the topic of conversation on an Aussie TV panel show on Wednesday night when former politician Amanda Vanstone took a tasteless swipe at the 17-year-old.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cGive me a break,\u201d said Vanstone, \u201cshe\u2019s not the only kid whose father\u2019s died.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy father died when I was young. It happens to lots of kids, it doesn\u2019t make her special.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/screen_shot_2015-11-26_at_2.05.18_pm.png\" width=\"1400\" height=\"613\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The comment didn\u2019t go down well, and speaking with Jeremy Cordeaux on FIVEAA, entertainment reporter Peter Ford said it was \u201cunnecessary and inappropriate\u201d.<\/p>\n<h3>LISTEN to Amanda Vanstone\u2019s comment here:<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it was unnecessary and inappropriate. The discussion was about her winning the competition, it was not about her father,\u201d said Ford.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/screen_shot_2015-11-26_at_2.05.37_pm.png\" width=\"1400\" height=\"776\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>On 3AW, Neil Mitchell said he had \u201calways respected Amanda Vanstone, but that was a bad error:\u201d<\/h3>\n<h3>&#8220;Have some sympathy, some compassion towards the kid,&#8221; he said.<\/h3>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/two-dead-three-missing-five-critical-in-south-australia-bushfires\">GRAVE FEARS DEATH TOLL FROM SA FIRES COULD RISE FROM TWO<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/swans-draft-pickup-apologises-for-social-media-blunder\">AFL DRAFT PICKUP APOLOGISES FOR SOCIAL MEDIA BLUNDER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After winning Dancing With The Stars in the US, Bindi Irwin was the topic of conversation on an Aussie TV panel show on Wednesday night when former politician Amanda Vanstone took a tasteless swipe at the 17-year-old. \u201cGive me a break,\u201d said Vanstone, \u201cshe\u2019s not the only kid whose father\u2019s died.\u201d \u201cMy father died when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":20443,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-31452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-show"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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