Karl Stefanovic storms off Today set during live broadcast after ‘disgusting’ insult

Karl Stefanovic had a meltdown live on Today this morning after his co-host Ally Langdon “hurt his feelings” with one brutal jab.

Karl Stefanovic stormed off the Today set in a rage this morning after copping a brutal insult from his co-host, Allison Langdon.

The 47-year-old veteran TV presenter was discussing the ongoing defamation trial between Johnny Depp and his ex-wife Amber Heard, in which Depp’s sister Christi Dembrowski testified on day one that Heard had called the actor “old and fat”.

Stefanovic began, “Being called a fat old man is like …” before Langdon quipped, “You’re not old?” before cheekily adding, “Or fat!”

But by that point Stefanovic had already checked out, emerging from the couch and shouting at the camera, “She’s fat shaming! She’s fat shaming again, Australia. I’m going on a diet.”

Karl Stefanovic stormed off the Today set after an insult from Ally Langdon.

“She’s fat-shaming!”

Stefanovic was then filmed behind the scenes wrapping his arm around the Nine Network’s head of publicity, Adrian Motte, where he said, “That’s disgusting, isn’t it?”

He added: “I really try, my feelings get hurt,” before he bailed entirely from set.

Stefanovic was seen confiding in network employees behind the scenes.

A bewildered Langdon, 42, defended herself after her colleague’s outburst, saying: “I said all of them! Old or fat! He’s so sensitive, I just called him thin, handsome, and young. That’s what I just said.”

She added: “I deal with this every day. Every day is like this. I basically called you young, thin and handsome.”

The scenes appeared to be in jest.

Allywas left stunned by her colleague’s outburst.

It comes after Stefanovic copped relentless insults from another colleague, Nine’s political editor Chris Uhlmann, on Tuesday morning’s program.

During a live cross to Canberra for a federal election update, the pair were discussing Anthony Albanese’s embarrassing speech gaffe from day one of the campaign.

Explaining that the leader of the Labor Party “can’t dwell on” failing to remember the unemployment rate or the RBA cash rate in a trainwreck press conference Monday, Uhlmann said: “Because then the next performance is affected by that, you have to get it out of your head.”

“What do you mean, when I went to sleep interviewing you yesterday?” Stefanovic quipped back with a laugh.

“Yeah, that was bad, I think that’s going to resonate through your career, but when I think of some of the things you’ve done in your career, mate, I’m surprised you’re standing there,” Uhlmann responded.

Taking it in his stride, Stefanovic chuckled self-deprecatingly as he agreed: “Same, same, same! Don’t worry about that, you’re not the only one!”

Slipping in one final dig at Stefanovic’s prodigal-son like return to Today in 2020, he added: “We all know at the end of this 40 days who gets redeemed. Like you.”

Uhlmann appeared to be taking a veiled swipe at the TV star’s memorable return to the Today show after being dumped in 2018 following 15 years as a host.

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