A Channel Seven reporter has broken her silence after Sam Worthington criticized her in an awkward moment at the GQ Men of the Year Awards on Wednesday night.
Sally Bowery made headlines when her red carpet interview with Australian actor Sam, 48, got off to a rocky start when they had a tense exchange about his wife Lara.
Sally made an unfortunate faux pas when she referred to Lara by her maiden name ‘Bingle’ rather than her married name ‘Worthington’, prompting an irritated reaction from Sam.
“Her name is Lara Worthington,” the Avatar star snapped at Sally, before adding, “It’s only been ten years.”
Sally quickly apologized for her mistake, before adding: “That was my slip.”
Now, Sally has broken her silence about the unfortunate encounter and revealed how she really feels about Sam’s tense reaction to her mistake.
Channel Seven reporter Sally Bowery (pictured) has broken her silence after Sam Worthington shouted at her in an awkward moment at the GQ Men of the Year Awards on Wednesday.
Her red carpet interview with Australian actor Sam, 48, got off to a rocky start when they had a tense exchange over Sally using his wife Lara’s maiden name ‘Bingle’.
Writing in a column for SevenThe seasoned reporter admitted she doesn’t know why her mistake caused so much offense and criticized Sam for his reaction.
‘I said Lara’s maiden name. It’s not the wrong name. Just a name he had used for much of his life. “A name that was already well known long before she met her husband,” said Sally.
She insisted that Lara herself didn’t seem “the least bit bothered” by her slip-up and laughed as she shared her confusion over why Sam wanted to be referred to by her married name.
Sally argued: ‘So why at an event celebrating what it now means to be a modern man didn’t her husband do it? The identity of a married woman is much more than her husband’s surname.’
He then went on to quote Sam’s own acceptance speech when he was crowned Man of the Year hours later, in which he spoke about the need to overcome outdated notions.
“(He told) the crowd that men ‘can love others unconditionally and with respect, without having to live by some outdated standard or some stereotypical, archaic, just plain sad idea of what a man should be.'” He couldn’t agree more’, he concluded.
Sam and Lara began dating in 2013 and secretly married in 2014 and have since welcomed three children: Racer, eight, River, four, and Rocket, nine.
Sam recently reflected on how he’s balanced being famous with being a father in a candid interview with Stellar Magazine.
Breaking her silence about the encounter, Sally admitted she doesn’t know why her mistake caused offence, given Lara (pictured with Sam) didn’t seem to care.
‘I’ve tried to handle (fame) carefully. It’s difficult; There is no book that tells you how to do it. “There is no set of rules,” he told the publication.
‘I’ve made some mistakes. And that’s fine. You grow from that.’
Sam said it’s important for his children to experience a normal life filled with sports and cartoons like any other child, far from the trappings of fame.
“Now that I have kids, it’s more about protecting my kids from (the attention),” she continued.
‘At the moment, my children don’t care what their father does. They don’t see my work in any way spectacular.
‘They just want me to take them to soccer practice and hang out and watch Paw Patrol. You are doing everything you can to achieve this balance and that is all you can do.”