Meshel Laurie names ‘sexist’ trolls on air during radio show

Laurie was left shocked after two men sent her hateful messages following her appearance on The Project late last week.

Meshel Laurie named two male trolls on air.

TV AND radio personality Meshel Laurie refuses to let cowardly trolls shame her into “silent self-hatred”.

Laurie was left shocked after two men sent her hateful messages following her appearance on The Project late last week.

She has now spoken out about the experience on her Melbourne radio program to highlight the “crazy sexism” and to publicly identify the men.

According to Laurie the first man, whom she named on air, called her a “fatso” and told her to go “hibernate” after watching her on The Project.

Anothr troll, also named by Laurie on air, told her she had a “horrible cackle” and “fake laugh” before body-shaming her.

“I hate to burst your bubble but fair dinkum, you are a very, very unattractive and talentless woman. Yuk,” he wrote in his message, according to Laurie.

Meshel Laurie wasn’t afraid to name the trolls that sent her abuse.

Laurie told her KIIS 101.1 co-host Matt Tilley and listeners that one of the troll’s abuse intensified after she replied to his message. “The man wrote: My appearance is unimportant Meshel. I’m male for a start. I’m a horse breeder not a wanna be ‘celebrity’. I’m very good at what I do ... you’re hopeless and the camera doesn’t like you at all. I find you incredibly hard to look at on TV because of your appearance. Very, very unattractive and horribly overweight.” She said he then went on to tell her she required a “special licence” to go out in public.

“Try cutting back on the KFC, the chocolate and the fizzy drinks Meshel and instead of spending endless hours watching the tell (sic) and slouched on the sofa like a beached whale get up and go for a walk!” he wrote.

Laurie says she doesn’t want people to feel sorry for her because this doesn’t happen to her a lot and it “genuinely” does not hurt her feelings.

“I just thought it was a fascinating thing that happened,” she told listeners on Monday.

The outspoken radio and TV presenter also posted about the trolling on her Facebook page, saying that trolls who spew out such hate and vitriol are “actually insane”.

“What kind of malfunction allows a person to send hateful messages to a stranger?” she wrote next to a screenshot of one of the comments.

“What’s he hoping? That I’ll cry, lock myself inside for a few days, quit my jobs, kill myself,” she wrote.

“I have to out this kind of crazy sexism ... I think we all get tempted for whatever reason to see people on TV or wherever and hate them. Don’t tell people you hate them on the Internet, for so many reasons its crazy, its actually insane to do that.”