The presenter categorically denied the athlete, that he has made fun of a fat kid – The 2019 video cited by Pappas
With a post he made on his personal Instagram account, Nikos Pappas “emptied” Giorgos Liagas, shortly after the presenter’s outburst, which called on the basketball player to apologize publicly.
In particular, Nikos Pappas during a podcast with Genevieve Mazari and Giorgos Karamichos made a specific reference to Giorgos Liagas. Nikos Pappas said characteristically: “I’m thinking tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, if I have a child with a girl from Zaire and I turn out to be a little more melancholic, will she be afraid to leave the house lest they see her? Will he be afraid of turning gay? Should I be afraid that it is not a finger pointing at school or does it turn on the TV and Beos screams it? Or if it turns out fat, should Liagas shout about it? This idea scares me a lot.”
After the video was shown, Giorgos Liagas took the floor and said: “I call on him publicly to apologize. I’m not threatening lawsuits or lawsuits – I don’t want any comments from anyone please – to apologize and tell me when I made fun of a person who is fat. To come out and tell me and apologize. This whole game of going out and throwing a Liaga to breed has to stop at some point.
It is not possible, for everything that is happening in this country, that I am to blame and that we stick a Liaga next to it. I have fought battles to stand up for people who, in the minds of others, are different. In my mind all people are the same and equal. They are not equal, unfortunately, because our society does not treat them as equal, but they are the same. I don’t see a person as fat, thin… On the other hand, I won’t abolish the word fat, if that’s what he means. Fat kid have I kidded? Shame a bit! Mr. Papa, come out and ask for forgiveness, I say this with love.” “You hadn’t told me, I wouldn’t have played it, I didn’t understand that he had said this nonsense,” said Giorgos Liagas, addressing his colleagues.
The video that Nikos Pappas posted with… sorry
A little later Nikos Pappas uploaded a video from 2019, in which Giorgos Liagas refers to the plus size model, Katerina Peftitsi. In fact, the basketball player characteristically wrote “I’m sorry George”.
In the video, Giorgos Liagas can be heard saying: “I don’t understand why a girl with more kilos than what we are used to consider normal, I don’t know how to say it – I don’t say the word fat – but I say a girl with more kilos we have to see her and she has to convince herself that it’s a transgression to go out and be smeared with oil, to be wet and to be on the beach like a Greenpeace advertisement”.
