In case you haven’t heard, Jacinda Ardern has been nailing it with New Zealand’s COVID-19 response and showing the rest of the world how it’s done. But for TV host Ryan Bridge, it seems like he’s less interested in Jacinda Ardern’s leadership and more into asking the creepy personal interview questions instead.
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Jacinda Ardern appeared on The AM Show for an interview with host Ryan Bridge, but things quickly went down awkward lane when he started asking her creepy questions about if she dyed her hair and whether it is “going grey or something.”
Needless to say that Jacinda was a bit blindsided by such a personal, non-COVID-19 question that she initially spluttered in her response before recovering in time to give Bridges a cool Ardern dressing down.
“Never… never… never… that’s not a polite question to ask anyone – I was about to say a lady – but anyone, actually.
“It’s just a little touch-up, Ryan. No reason.”
The awkwardness gets cranked up another notch when Bridges digs himself deeper by justifying his line of questioning: “Looks good, Prime Minister. And I only mention the grey hair because you are the prime minister and it does tend to age people. No harm intended, alright?”
In the classiest way of shutting down an awkward line of questioning possible, Jacinda replied “No, it does, it does, I fully acknowledge that. Yep. Thank you for the reminder.”
As for why Ryan Bridges would waste an interview opportunity with Jacinda Ardern to ask such a creepy personal question, well only he knows that but we presume it had something to do with a tweet Clarke Gayford, Jacinda’s partner, shared about helping to dye her hair.
It’s just mindboggling how Bridges wasted an interview opportunity with Jacinda Ardern in such facepalming fashion. He could’ve asked important questions about COVID-19, politics, how well she’s polling at the moment, or even if she’s a fan of Superman, yet all he could focus on is her hair. One even has to wonder if he would’ve asked that question had his guest been male.
And if you just had to ask something personal about Jacinda, asking her about her old DJ days is a better way to go than whether she gets her hair dyed because being PM is so stressful.
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