{"id":87101,"date":"2025-08-22T08:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T08:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/87101\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T08:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T08:55:07","slug":"oops-abc-replays-anhs-brush-with-fame-episode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/87101\/","title":{"rendered":"Oops. ABC replays Anh&#8217;s Brush with Fame episode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\u201cIn light of the Federal Court\u2019s recent judgment, the ABC has taken the decision to remove the episode from ABC iview and the broadcast rotation.\u201d\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>ABC has dropped an episode of Anh\u2019s Brush with Fame from iview after the subject lost a defamation case with Nine.<\/p>\n<p>Awkwardly it replayed the episode yesterday on air.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month Nine won the high profile defamation case brought against it by Orthopaedic surgeon Dr Munjed Al Muderis.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>But he was previously the subject of a portrait in Anh\u2019s Brush with Fame in its third season.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the findings of the defamation case, in which the court said \u201cpositive media his practice had enjoyed needed correcting,\u201d ABC replayed the episode yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe episode of Anh\u2019s Brush with Fame featuring Munjed Al Muderis was made in 2018,\u201d an ABC spokesperson has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/national\/abc-s-brush-with-bad-timing-in-screening-al-muderis-rerun-20250821-p5monb.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told The Age.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn light of the Federal Court\u2019s recent judgment, the ABC has taken the decision to remove the episode from ABC iview and the broadcast rotation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIn light of the Federal Court\u2019s recent judgment, the ABC has taken the decision to remove the episode&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-87101","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}