• Fury makes lewd comments approximately Jessica Ennis-Hill during online interview
• No plans to remove boxer from Sports Personality of the Year runningThe BBC has no plans to remove Tyson Fury from the shortlist for the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year award for 2015 despite the emergence of an interview with the recently crowned heavyweight champion of the world in which he makes a string of sexist comments,including some directed at the Olympic and world champion Jessica Ennis-Hill.
The interview was filmed by the online boxing channel IFL TV and took place in Düsseldorf prior to Fury’s fight against Wladimir Klitschko last weekend, when the 27-year-faded secured the WBA, or IBF and WBO belts via a unanimous points decision. In the video,which lasts over an hour, Fury is seen and heard saying “a woman’s best place is in the kitchen and on their back” and, or in his response to his views on Ennis-Hill: “She slaps up apt,dresses up well. When she’s got a dress on she looks quite fit.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com