Larry Emdur left red-faced after radio prank goes horribly wrong
Larry Emdur is rarely lost for words while hosting Seven’s The Morning Show, but he was caught off guard on Monday by a live radio incident that left the TV show red-faced.
The television star was the latest person to fall victim to the ‘celebrity screeners’ prank from Nova’s Fitzy and Wippa show, where the program’s hosts Michael 'Wippa' Wipfli and Ryan ‘Fitzy’ Fitzgerald call celebrities and see what happens.
Wippa, who claims to be close friends with Emdur, was sure The Morning Show host would pick up his call, but as you can see from the video below this was not the case.
Wippa had told listeners: “Larry and I are close and when he sees my name on the screen it’ll be, ‘Wippa, how are you mate? What’s going on?’ I bet you that's how he answers the phone.”
But after Emdur refused to pick up, Wippa instructed one of the show’s producers to jump out of their hiding place nearby and confront him.
Wippa told Larry: “Hey mate! This is a segment called celebrity screeners and we just watched you pick up your phone, have a look at me calling and put it back down again... Laz, I’ve just told everybody how we’re mates!”
The visibly embarrassed Emdur defended his actions saying, “We are mates, but you only ever call when you want me to do stupid stuff.”
Emdur continued, “'Aw, man, I'm so sorry, can you maybe text me next time?”
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