After thinking he had left a work Skype call, Carrie Bickmore’s producer partner undressed naked in front of stunned ABC staff.
While on a European vacation with his Gold Logie-winning wife, Chris Walker, executive producer of comedy show The Weekly, was dialed in for a May 17 meeting.
According to the Herald Sun, he mistookly believed he had left the conference when he undressed in front of up to nine others, with the episode lasting between 40 seconds and two minutes.
The ABC said in a statement Mr Walker was simply getting into the shower.
‘The ABC is acting like a commercial network trying to minimise this incident,’ a television insider said.
‘Staff are shocked that there have been no consequences for his (Mr Walker) actions.’
Mr Walker had dialled in while on sabbatical overseas with Bickmore, with the naked faux pas occurring during a meeting following rehearsals and before the taping of the program.
ABC said it was ‘aware of an unintentional incident’.
‘The ABC is in regular communication with the relevant team members and are in the process of developing strategies to ensure an incident of this nature does not occur again,’ it said in a statement.
‘The ABC has a counselling service available to all ABC employees which has been offered in this instance.’
The production team in charge of The Weekly, Thinkative Television, dismissed the incident as merely ‘unintentional’.
‘It was clearly unintentional and I know the ABC has checked in with their crew about it,’ a Thinkative spokesman said.
‘There are discussions ongoing about processes to make sure something like this doesn’t happen again.’
An insider says the ABC isn’t doing enough to support staff after witnessing the incident.
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