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Fox Sports presenter sacked after bizarre Facebook Live video in which she insults several races and religions
Emily Austen loses job after insulting rant about Mexicans, the Chinese and Jewish people
THIS shocking video shows a Fox Sports presenter go on a racist rant that got her sacked.
In the minute long Facebook Live broadcast Emily Austen, 27, manages to insult a range of nationalities and faiths.
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She attacks the Jewish community, Mexicans and makes other comments about the Chinese.
Her co-hosts burst out laughing in disbelief at some of her statements as one even labels her “Trump Junior, over here.”
The video was posted to Facebook - but later removed by Fox bosses.
Among her comments were: "I didn’t know Mexicans were that smart" and "the Chinese guy is always the smartest guy in the class".
She then launched into a bizarre anti-Semitic tirade asks: "What about Jewish people, do you think they are stingy?"
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She replies: “Yeah, I went to school in Boca, so I know most of that – the way I used to talk to Jewish people in Boca, they hated – because I was a server, and I just didn’t care and they would complain and bitch about everything.
"I gave a guy a beer, and he was complaining to me that there was too much head and I knew that he was a stingy a****** and that he wasn’t going to give me a tip, so I go, 'So you’re the first guy that’s ever complained to me about too much head'. I got fired two weeks later."
Austen made a grovelling apology on Twitter and at the weekend.
She wrote: “I made a terrible mistake.
“I was in an environment where I was trying to be funny and make a joke and my comments were insensitive.
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"You can trust this was absolutely not my intention.
“Anyone who knows me knows that is not how I truly feel.
“I will continue to work hard to prove myself and make things right.
“I know I have some growing to do, and I sincerely apologise.
Something like this will never happen again."
Her bosses had other ideas.
Fox Sports issued a statement that Austen had been removed from the schedule.
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It seems unlikely other networks will take a punt on her punditry since the clip went viral.
Her , which is yet to be updated, has her listed as a sideline reporter for the Tampa Bay Rays baseball and Orlando Magic basketball teams with Fox Sports Florida/Sun.
She has held this role since March 2015.
Her says she is a reporter looking for “new challenges and opportunities.”
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