Oops. ABC replays Anh’s Brush with Fame episode

“In light of the Federal Court’s recent judgment, the ABC has taken the decision to remove the episode from ABC iview and the broadcast rotation.”

ABC has dropped an episode of Anh’s Brush with Fame from iview after the subject lost a defamation case with Nine.

Awkwardly it replayed the episode yesterday on air.

Earlier this month Nine won the high profile defamation case brought against it by Orthopaedic surgeon Dr Munjed Al Muderis.

Al Muderis had sued 60 Minutes following a story by Tom Steinfort, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age over a series of reports in September 2022 he claims ruined his reputation and set back the field of prosthetic limbs by 20 years.

But he was previously the subject of a portrait in Anh’s Brush with Fame in its third season.

Despite the findings of the defamation case, in which the court said “positive media his practice had enjoyed needed correcting,” ABC replayed the episode yesterday.

“The episode of Anh’s Brush with Fame featuring Munjed Al Muderis was made in 2018,” an ABC spokesperson has told The Age.

“In light of the Federal Court’s recent judgment, the ABC has taken the decision to remove the episode from ABC iview and the broadcast rotation.”