ABC host Jon Faine takes pre-planned leave days after being slammed over Carly Finlay interview

UNDER-fire radio host Jon Faine has taken pre-planned leave following his distasteful interview with a disability campaigner, where he compared Carly Findlay’s chronic skin condition to a “burns victim”.

UNDER-fire radio host Jon Faine has taken pre-planned leave following his distasteful interview with a disability campaigner.

The network has refused to say if it had received any complaints about a segment in which the radio host compared Carly Findlay’s chronic skin condition to a “burns victim”.

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Jon Faine is on leave, days after humiliating a disability campaigner on national radio.

The ABC on Sunday said: “Jon Faine is on annual leave for several weeks, booked several months ago.”

He also went on to say Findlay — who has a rare condition called ichthyosis — might scare children at Halloween.

The radio interview has caused outrage and a social media furore quickly erupted.

During the segment he also asked whether she could have sex and whether children pointed at her in the street.

Carly Finlay has a chronic skin condition called ichthyosis. Picture: Instagram

Management last week apologised, saying “Jon intended no offence” but admitted a “number of his questions and comments were insensitive”.

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