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Victoria's Secret
Campaign: Fall/Winter 2010
Campaign: Fall/Winter 2010
Campaign: Fall/Winter 2010
It was a serious news item as a bank expert discussed interest rates being kept on hold. But the interest rate of the TV viewers was soaring as behind him a colleague took a sneaky peak at some rather revealing shots on Miranda Kerr on his computer.
The worker’s ogling session at the Macquarie Bank financial operations room in Sydney went out live to hundreds of thousands viewers.
The hapless employee was seen working in the background as his colleague fronted the Channel Seven news in a live cross to the studio to discuss a decision by Australia’s Reserve Bank to keep interest rates on hold.
Newsreader Chris Bath introduced the bank’s private wealth adviser, Martin Lakos, and asked him to discuss the financial market’s reaction to the Reserve Bank’s decision.
Viewers not particularly interested in the nation’s serious financial affairs may have thought it was a good time to slip out into the kitchen to pour a cup of tea or flip open a bottle a beer – until the unnamed adviser sitting at a computer screen in the background opened an email containing photos of Miss Kerr.
And as Mr Lakos continued chatting on about the relief householders would have felt about the Reserve Bank’s decision, his colleague’s eyes were glued not on interest rate percentages and money market graphs but on different assets altogether.
There on his screen – and on live national TV – were shots from Miss Kerr’s recent photoshoot from GQ magazine.
The Australian model had already scored hundreds of thousands of hits on Google from headings reading ‘Miranda Kerr’s Smoking Hot GQ Photo Shoot’ and ‘Nude Miranda Kerr Shoot for GQ Sparks Racy Row’.
And for the financial adviser, what better time to look at the pictures than when all other eyes were probably on Mr Lakos, the focal point of the Macquarie Bank’s operations room at that time?
Even when a colleague came over to chat to him over the top of his screen, the unashamed worker continued looking at the Australian model’s photos.
But just as Mr Lakos finished his live link to the studio the adviser may have realised that his covert activities had been captured on the TV camera. He switched back to a financial screen, then looked around and stared straight at the camera.
He appeared to have a sheepish grin – but was that expression hiding thoughts of horror?
He will have to explain just what he thought he was up to when his very unhappy bosses quiz him tomorrow – and he can expect a rough ride.
In a statement Macquarie bank said it was investigating the matter and that it ‘takes matters such as the unacceptable use of technology extremely seriously.’
It added: ‘Macquarie has strict policies in place surrounding the use of technology and the issue arising from today’s live cross on 7 News is being dealt with internally.’
A TV insider said: ‘Live crosses are always risky because there’s always the chance that something unacceptable to viewers suddenly crops up.
‘It’s too late to stop it once it’s on and you could hardly have someone running over to the poor guy in the background and telling him to flick over to another window on his computer.
‘Some people get upset by the unexpected on their screens in live crosses but I think there will be a lot of males who wish this particular live cross had run a lot longer!’
Source: dailymail.co.uk
I can not but laugh at this, I hope he does not get the sack.
I can only guess that he will be removed from that seat cause, every time there is a broadcast showing that same area, we will all be looking that way.
Will have to look up this Miranda Kerr person never heard the name before.