TV newsman Robert Ovadia has hit again at ‘evil’ Seven Community bosses after his personal daughter requested him a heartbreaking query within the wake of his sudden sacking.
Within the Federal Courtroom final week, Seven alleged that ’13 extra ladies’ have made complaints towards the previous star reporter.
However the declare prompted Ovadia’s teenage daughter to ask her father if folks would now assume her ‘dad is a rapist’.
On Tuesday, Ovadia, 51, revealed the devastating remark in a submit on social media, and mentioned he was now braced for extra filth allegations within the more and more bitter row.
‘I will anticipate extra smear over the approaching months as this evil firm (in whose service I risked my life and security many instances) now seeks to destroy my popularity additional,’ he added.
Ovadia revealed he had additionally acquired a chilling dying menace from a person who posts pictures of weapons on his Instagram web page.
‘Hey ringworm,’ learn the disturbing message to Ovadia.
‘When do you wish to be brutally murdered?’
Sacked Seven reporter Robert Ovadia has acquired each a dying menace and a heartbreaking query
Robert Ovadia branded Seven community ‘evil’ in his submit on social media
Ovadia mentioned he had additionally been flooded with messages of help since Seven filed the brand new allegations.
The Walkley Award-winning journalist has repeatedly and vehemently denied any wrongdoing or inappropriate conduct on his half throughout his 23-year profession at Seven.
Posting a collection of the messages acquired, he added: ‘Be at liberty to scroll by way of just a few current interactions with ladies I’ve labored with vs Seven’s Propaganda Unit.
‘I will be crass, I will be blunt, I will be obnoxious, my humour is darkish – 20 years surrounded by trauma and hazard will do all of that to you.
‘However I do NOT mistreat ladies. No less than the 4 Corners hatchet job acquired one factor proper – the Seven Community is diabolical.’
His authorized declare towards the Seven Community and Seven West Media’s information and editor-in-chief, Anthony De Ceglie, had its first case file administration assembly final week.
At that assembly, Seven’s attorneys alleged that since his sacking, the complaints have piled up towards the 51-year-old senior reporter.
However in help of Ovadia, one feminine former colleague posted, ‘All the ladies I labored alongside with you really liked the playfulness … the cheeky massive child facet of you, by no means figuring out what we have been in for besides that (work was) going to be enjoyable and made that little simpler although all of us interacting like that!
‘There could be some lengthy miserable nights with out it. You are the furthest factor from a bully or something of the type. That is all so incomprehensible.
‘We would not need you to ever need to really feel such as you could not be your self on account of such ridiculous allegations. It is extremely unfair.’
Sacked Seven reporter Robert Ovadia has acquired a dying menace and had his personal teenager daughter ask a heartbreaking query within the wake of his sacking
Ovadia’s supporters have emerged because the former veteran reporter filed an unfair dismissal swimsuit towards Seven and its boss Anthony de Ceglie (above)
In one other remark despatched to Ovadia, a male supporter wrote: ‘I place you in the identical class as your former colleague Chris Motive in that you’re a seasoned skilled.
‘I like many others don’t consider the tales being circulated about you. Sustain the great struggle and will you be victorious.’
Ovadia was initially accused of making edited pictures and a caricature of a feminine, ‘Particular person A’, and sending these to that particular person, an act which didn’t represent sexual harassment, his assertion of declare to the court docket mentioned.
Two of the pictures of cartoon girl representing a colleague – are dismissed by the reporter as simply amongst reporters’ exchanges within the Seven newsroom
The dying menace despatched to Ovadia from a social media person who has a number of pictures of weapons, money and luxurious automobiles on his personal Instagram web page
He additionally allegedly despatched a photograph copied from the web of a flaccid penis to ‘Particular person B’ which was not of a sexual nature and didn’t quantity to sexual harassment, paperwork filed by his attorneys mentioned.
‘No cheap employer might have fashioned the view that the conduct amounted to sexual harassment, the photograph was not conduct of a sexual nature,’ his assertion of declare mentioned.
Seven’s authorized counsel Vanja Bulut,mentioned final week the community had e-mail proof of complaints about Ovadia’s conduct from one other 13 ladies.
‘Subsequent to the applicant’s dismissal, 13 extra females have come ahead with complaints in relation to his conduct, and so they’re now topic to investigation,’ Bulut instructed Federal Courtroom Justice Elizabeth Raper.
‘The applicant has been placed on discover of that.’
Ovadia’s attorneys argued in court docket that their consumer’s conduct didn’t quantity to sexual harassment or critical misconduct and alleged he was unlawfully sacked.
