A Current Affair Incurs The Hellish Wrath Of The Smiling Supermodel

As far as network politics go, it’s probably safe to say that doing a current affairs number on one of your regular star guest presenters is probably about a good a move as, say, letting Eddie McGuire bone you.

Well, congratulations to A Current Affair, then, who thought it would be a good idea to do one of their magical “news” pieces on model Megan Gale, who regularly appears in a guest capacity on the show. Pity they didn’t check the facts with Megan herself before airing it, then.

Megan Gale’s working relationship with Channel 9 has been thrown into jeopardy following the interview A Current Affair aired about the Aussie model on Monday night.

Gale and her management felt disappointed and exploited by the angle the program took with the interview, which was heavily promoted to be a bitchy battle of the babes – with Gale attacking her Myer rival Jennifer Hawkins.

Confidential understands the leggy brunette feels the segment – billed as a juicy exclusive – was “taken out of context”, with her publicity team even attempting to have the ACA promos pulled before the show aired.

Not only that, but David Jones – whose advertising dollars are no doubt appreciated by the network – are also fuming, as the program implied Gale would be leaving their long-running promotional partnership to pursue her cosmetics business more intently.

We thought we’d be dead and buried before we saw the day ACA presented a shoddily researched story where ‘massaging the data’ was the order of the day, but it looks like we’re eating our words now!