Sarah’s Day star responds to ‘racist’ sandwich joke claims

Australian wellness influencer Sarah Stevenson has been caught in a race row after comments she made about her son’s lunch.

A top Australian wellness influencer has been slammed as ‘racist’ for an innocent comment made about her son’s school lunch.

The health and fitness YouTuber Sarah Stevenson, known by her millions of followers as Sarah’s Day, filmed herself making curried eggs to put in her son’s sandwich.

The influencer was accused of ‘racist’ comments this week. Picture: Instagram.

It was over a comment she made about her son, Fox’s, lunch. Picture: Instagram.

The 31-year-old vlogger said that her son would be “the smelly boy in the playground” if he took the meal to school.

“Do you want to be ‘smelly curried egg boy’?” she asked him.

While the comment flew by most of her followers unnoticed, it was so offensive to one person that they demanded a public apology from Stevenson for her “borderline racist” words.

Instead, the entrepreneur and mum-of-two replied to the private message in a video to her followers explaining that she meant the “egg smell”.

Stevenson’s comments to her son about being a “smelly egg boy” sparked outrage. Picture: Instagram.

“Didn’t everyone go to school with someone who brought eggs in their lunch and you’re like, ‘ew, you smell like rotten eggs’... not ‘you smell like curry!’,” she said in the video on her Instagram Stories.

She joked: “I’m being racist to eggs.”

Stevenson then doubled down on the follower’s outrage, following that with a cooking tutorial for “racist eggs”.

She also joked about being dyslexic – but said it was “fine” because her husband has the learning disorder.

“We’re allowed to make jokes about that one. Not really... I’m digging myself a hole here.”

She then posted a tutorial for the “racist” filling, where she joked about her husband’s dyslexia. Picture: Instagram.

The late night social media saga was re-shared by the official Outspoken The Podcast account, where it was dubbed “egg gate” and plenty more people weighed in.

“She should have apologised and taken it down instead she’s made it worse,” one commenter wrote.

“I totally thought she was talking about egg farts,” another wrote.

The general consensus from the public was that the original racism accusation “was a definite reach”, but she went too far with her explanation.

“Honestly don’t think there was any malice in the original comment — she definitely scrambled (ha!), way too far in explaining herself afterwards though,” someone wrote.

“People will take any opportunity to point the finger but this time, I actually think it was just a true comment about eggs being stinky.”

Stevenson said the accusation showed the “fine line” influencers had to walk in the public eye. Picture: Instagram.

During her ‘tutorial’, Stevenson let off some steam about the reaction to her ‘racist’ comment.

“This is why it’s so hard to have like banter and make jokes, because there’s always one person,” she said.

“Like, guys, I married a beautiful man and he is dyslexic and I think eggs are smelly, but I still love them. Does that mean I’m racist against them? Maybe?”

Still mashing the eggs, she let out a sigh and said “oh man”.

She continued, explaining that being an ‘influencer’ meant having to decide whether to “fully be yourself and let loose and … have a little fun about smelly eggs” or be “really politically correct and people please”.

“It’s a fine line. It’s a fine line,” she concluded.

It’s not the first time Sarah’s Day has caused a controversial stir among her followers.

In March this year she was branded “out of touch” after sharing she and her husband Kurt Tilse had bought a second home to film sponsored content.

In 2020 the Sydneysider has been accused of cultural appropriation on two occasions: first in June when she wore her hair in colourful boxer braids for a promotional campaign with White Fox Boutique; then, again, months later after buying her partner a didgeridoo for Father’s Day.