SAMANTHA Armytage has fired another shot in her stoush with Kathy Griffin, branding the controversial US comedian “unwell”.
In August, the pair got into an uncomfortable spat during a live interview on Sunrise, when Armytage brought up Griffin’s widely-criticised photoshoot with a bloodied severed head resembling Donald Trump, and asked if she’d gone too far.
Griffin fired back angrily: “You’re full of crap. Stop this. You know this. Stop acting like my little picture is more important than talking about the actual atrocities that the President of the United States is committing.”
Appearing on Mark Latham’s Outsiders program this week, Armytage explained that she’d felt a responsibility to their audience to “call [Griffin] on it” because no one else had done so during her promotional interviews.
“As a journo, I sensed that she was happy to give it but not take it. Personally, I think the beheading joke wasn’t very funny,” she told the panel.
“Comedians are an interesting mob to interview — they’re very rarely like they are on TV or on the stage.”
During the Outsiders segment, the TV presenter also made the surprising revelation that Trump’s presidential victory had proven pretty lucrative for her.
“I made quite a bit of money on him winning because I bet on him when he was paying 100 to 1,” Armytage said.
“I’d heard Dad — and other people in the country — complaining about the disconnect between the city and the media, and I could see that the commentary in the media was really out of touch with the average person.
“I kind of sensed that the ‘silent majority’ was going to come crashing down on them, because they were getting very frustrated.”