Kate Abdo shuts down Jamie Carragher in awkward on-air alternate

Jamie Carragher and Kate Abdo had been concerned in a clumsy alternate over her relationship together with her boyfriend throughout CBS Sports’ Champions League protection.

The pair had been pitchside on the Emirates Stadium on Tuesday night time alongside Thierry Henry and Micah Richards, when Carragher instructed Abdo ought to put on the Arsenal shirt he had been requested to placed on. 

Earlier within the present from Arsenal’s conflict with Porto, the previous Liverpool defender acquired Richards to don the shirt after the latter revealed he grew up supporting the Gunners.

But on the finish of the shootout, it was Carragher’s flip to put on the shirt after being requested to take action by Bukayo Saka in his post-match interview.

Carragher then instructed Henry and Abdo must be subsequent to put on the Arsenal jersey on air, sparking a weird remark from the previous Liverpool defender.

Jamie Carragher (third from left) cracked a clumsy joke about Kate Abdo’s relationship

The Liverpool legend instructed Abdo was ‘not loyal’ to her boyfriend Malik Scott

Abdo made her relationship with Scott public on social media two weeks in the past

‘You [Henry] can put on it subsequent and for the final half [of the show] you [Abdo] have gotten to put on it,’ he advised his colleagues.

‘No, I’m loyal,’ Abdo swiftly replied, earlier than including ‘to Manchester United thanks very a lot’, when requested by Carragher whom she was loyal to.

‘You’re not loyal to Malik,’ the previous Liverpool defender fired again, referencing Abdo’s boyfriend Malik Scott.

The joke appeared to go down just like the proverbial lead balloon with the CBS host, who replied: ‘What? How are you able to even say that?,’ whereas Henry and Richards smiled awkwardly. 

Carragher then tried to elucidate the remark, noting that Scott ‘hasn’t had a point out on the present tonight.’ 

Abdo just lately introduced she is in a relationship with Deontay Wilder‘s boxing coach Scott, after months of her CBS Sports on-screen colleagues playfully teasing her over the topic.

It additionally comes after the truth that Arsenal legend Henry is commonly the topic of light-hearted mocking on social media the place followers joke that he has a crush on Abdo, and his response to discovering out about his ‘work spouse’s’ new relationship earlier this month sparked a hilarious response on-line.

The CBS Sports anchor beforehand noticed the title of her companion revealed on air by Carragher and Richards in December final yr, after having made jokes concerning the presenter’s new relationship throughout broadcasts because the begin of the season. 

During CBS’ protection earlier this month, Carragher requested Abdo how she had loved a visit to Alabama earlier than including: ‘Are we going to satisfy Malik?’

And final week, Abdo revealed her companion desires to formally tie the knot.

Speaking to The Athletic this week, the presenter revealed the off-the-cuff nature of CBS’ protection was what made it so particular. 

‘The freedom to be off-script [is why it works], the liberty to be our genuine selves,’ she stated.

Abdo appeared shocked by the remark, whereas Thierry Henry (proper) smiled awkwardly 

Last week Abdo revealed dwell on-air that her companion desires to formally tie the knot

‘We’re all very completely different personalities and produce completely different belongings to the desk. But I believe as a complete, all of us full one another not directly. 

‘Working in tv, it’s such a supply of frustration to me as a result of so typically you go right into a present and have each single minute accounted for, realizing precisely what’s going to occur over the following hour.

‘It takes all of the air out of the room for something to occur spontaneously. 

‘We go into segments realizing that we’ve got an total imaginative and prescient for every section, but when we go completely off that imaginative and prescient, that’s OK.’