Basketball legend Andrew Gaze is a surprise hit with footy fans thanks to his affable on-screen demeanor – but he shocked those viewers with a highly X-rated gaffe on Sunday night.
The 57-year-old has made a smooth transition to television since retiring after a 20-year career that included five Olympics, earning praise as an astute basketball commentator around the world.
But it’s like one of the four hosts of the cult hit Fox Footy shows Bounce where Gaze really shines and falls in love with fans young and old.
As the sweet and awkward basketball legend sitting alongside footy greats Jason Dunstall and Cameron Mooney, Gaze provides a point of difference alongside more rugged characters as they discuss the good, the bad, the ugly and of the weirdness of every AFL round.
But the affable, awkward manner took a turn on Sunday night’s episode when Gaze presented the show’s most popular segment “Turn It Up,” where Super Boomers turn into viral video stars.
Basketball legend Andrew Gaze has shocked fans after a surprising X-rated blunder on live TV
Appearing on Fox Footy’s cult show ‘Bounce’, the 57-year-old accidentally blurted out ‘a contest to see who can take the biggest d**k?’, leaving his fellow hosts in stitches
A clip was shown of a man bizarrely testing the strength of his testicles by dropping a watermelon on it from a significant height.
And Gaze described the situation in detail as he led to what will now become an iconic and infamous X-rated gaffe.
“When it comes to pulling off those truly jaw-dropping stunts, it’s best left to the young ones,” he said.
— Because the minds of young people are not fully developed. We know that in men, the testicles are the most sensitive area. Why on earth would you want to test who has the strongest testicles? »
“Now there are certain things when you want to test the limits of what human capacity is.
‘(But) have a contest to see who can take the biggest d**k?’
Gaze quickly corrects herself to say “biggest hit”, contorting her face in a mix of surprise, disgust and hilarity, as Dunstall, Mooney and Bernie Vince dissolve into peals of laughter over her gaffe.
“Seeing who can deal the biggest blow to the agotts isn’t much fun,” Gaze reiterates, as he tries to recover from the mistake.
Fans were both shocked and amused by the Freudian slip, with even fellow Australian basketball great Andrew Bogut explaining his delight: “It all makes sense now, Andrew Gaze,” the NBA star joked.
God I love Andrew Gaze… Still a crack,’ one fan wrote, with one female fan joking, ‘Just want to know if registrations are open yet for the competition to take the biggest…uh.’
Andrew Gaze with his wife Belinda and children Courtney, Phoebe, Annie and Mason at their home in Melbourne
The basketball legend, pictured coaching the Sydney Kings in 2018, is far from the first footballing figure to make an X-rated blunder
Gaze is far from the first football character to make an accidental X-rated comment.
Legendary AFL commentator Gerard Healy went viral around the world when he combined Coast and Suns in an iconic blooper in 2013.
Then the Ex-Swans star became Logie-winning breakfast presenter Tony Armstrong who left fans in stitches when he referred to the cricket skipper’s ‘bulging d**k’ Australian at the time, Tim Paine, instead of the bulging disc on his back.
This blunder took on a life of its own when it was later discovered that the married father had sent ‘d**k photos’ to a colleague at Cricket Tasmania, before he was subsequently sacked as skipper Australian.
Footy supremo Eddie McGuire was another to accidentally slip c**t through the air, although he claimed he said Port Adelaide legend Kane Cornes’ name instead of the rude word.
AFL broadcasters are taking notice: it’s obviously something that football personalities in the media are very scared of!
