{"id":20813,"date":"2013-07-01T11:13:51","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T09:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/croft-takes-serena-to-the-bottom\/"},"modified":"2013-07-01T11:13:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T09:13:51","slug":"croft-takes-serena-to-the-bottom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/croft-takes-serena-to-the-bottom\/","title":{"rendered":"Croft takes Serena to the bottom"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Low point: Annabel Croft<\/a> made disparaging remarks about Serena Williams. Photo: Getty Images<\/p>\n

Tennis broadcaster Annabel Croft has described Wimbledon<\/a> champion Serena Williams<\/a> as having a \u2018huge backside\u2019. Croft said this during a corporate lunch, which guests found offensive.<\/p>\n

Croft made a number of unnecessary comments about Serena\u2019s body while going through her daily preview of the day\u2019s play in the Lawn Tennis Association<\/a>\u2018s sponsors suite beneath Court No 1.<\/p>\n

One of the LTA invitees said: \u2018Annabel made many personal asides about Serena, saying that she was huge. She said all Serena\u2019s dresses were very carefully designed to hide her bulk.<\/p>\n

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Serena Williams. Photo: PA<\/p>\n

\u2018She then moved on to concentrate on what she termed as Serena\u2019s huge backside. She said she was in the ladies\u2019 changing room and wondering who was going to wear what looked like a wedding dress.<\/p>\n

\u2018She then saw Serena getting into this dress and that the train had been carefully designed to wrap around Serena\u2019s huge backside. It was quite offensive.\u2019<\/p>\n

Croft, who presents the All England Club\u2019s in-house Live@Wimbledon TV, said she had not meant to be disparaging about Serena and that comments about her figure had been taken out of context.<\/p>\n

She said: \u2018I apologise to anyone who might have taken offence, but it was meant as a harmless piece of banter. Serena has a magnificent bottom that every woman should aspire to.\u2019 \u2013 Mail Online<\/a><\/p>\n

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