Effectively, that is awkward.
Tensions appeared to escalate on the set of SEC’s halftime present Saturday throughout the Florida-Vanderbilt recreation, after analyst Peter Burns cracked a joke concerning the spouse of co-analyst and former NFL tight finish Ben Watson.
Issues started to go south when Burns jokingly requested Watson if he didn’t get “the memo” concerning the hosts, together with Chris Doering and Takeo Spikes, carrying darkish fits.
Watson, who was wearing a lightweight blue swimsuit with a pink tie, went together with the banter, saying, “So long as I get a textual content from my spouse [Kirsten Watson] that claims I look good. Ship me the textual content, child. Ship me the textual content.”
Burns then chimed in, saying, “That’s not the textual content she despatched me.”
That’s when the printed minimize to highlights of Vanderbilt’s eventual 31-24 win over Florida. When the present returned from a industrial break, Doering and Spikes had been the one ones sitting on the desk, whereas Burns and Watson’s chairs remained vacant.
ESPN’s SEC Community broadcast on Nov. 19, 2022.
Peter Burns’ chair stays vacant after a industrial break on Nov. 19, 2022.
“Simply you and I right here, Takeo, unsure what occurred to Peter Burns,” Doering stated as Watson made his means again to the desk.
“Did you've him hold your spouse’s identify out of his mouth?” Doering requested Watson, who replied, “Huh?” as he sat down and slammed his cellphone on the desk.
“We’ll see how Peter Burns is with that sensible mouth within the second half,” Doering joked.
Later within the day, Burns tweeted a selfie with Watson, together with the hashtag “friendship.” The picture itself featured Burns sporting a smile whereas Watson appeared stoic on the SEC Community set.
Watson reposted Burns’ tweet, writing, “Transferring on. However you continue to owe Mrs [sic] Watson a public apology.”
Burns posted a public apology to Watson and his spouse Monday on Twitter, sharing his message alongside a tweet from a person, who thought-about Burns’ unique feedback to be “a joke,” including, “it wasn’t that unhealthy in any respect.”
“Whereas it was a joke, the reality is that I crossed the road, you need to by no means joke about household in order that I owe a public apology to Ben & Kirsten 100%,” Burns wrote. “@BenjaminSWatson couldn’t have dealt with it higher along with his humor and sophistication. All of us good & proud to name him a buddy & coworker.”
Watson then reposted Burns’ tweet, writing, “Apology accepted. We're shifting on. See you Saturday man. We've some large video games to debate!”
Though issues gave the impression to be resolved between the co-hosts, Watson appeared to throw shade at Burns after the very fact, when actress Holly Robinson Peete criticized Burns’ apology.
“Perhaps together with your apology don’t quote tweet somebody gassing you that it wasn’t ‘that unhealthy’ or offensive to ‘them’?” Peete wrote in a reply tweet to Burns’ apology. “If it was offensive to the person who you ‘joked about’ simply apologize straight as much as them w/o that opinion … However at the least you lastly acknowledged it.”
That’s when Watson replied to Peete, seemingly agreeing along with her feedback.
“That half smh,” Watson wrote.
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