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News Corp commentator Lucy Zelić nails her political colours firmly to the mast | Weekly Beast

Media | The Guardian · Amanda Meade · last updated

Interviewing Ted O’Brien on 2GB, the former sports broadcaster says she has been a ‘Liberal faithful’ for many years. Plus: how the Canberra Times portrayed Zachary Rolfe

Lucy Zelić has graduated from an SBS sports broadcaster with perfect pronunciation of foreign names to a conservative commentator who happily describes herself as one of the “Liberal faithful”.

In 2018 Zelić’s custom of pronouncing World Cup footballers’ names in the same way they would be in their home country saw her labelled “spectacularly silly and flamboyant” by the News Corp columnist Claire Harvey.

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