GUANGDONG Television's
bikini-wearing weather girls have a hit a dry spell, and the forecast for their
fans is dark and gloomy clouds ahead.
"They were
inappropriately dressed for the first broadcast and we apologise for
that," said Zhou Chun, director of the sports channel at GDTV. The models
were hired to be weather girls in bikini during the station's broadcast of the
Euro 2012 football championship.
Zhou added that he's already
ordered the girls to wear proper sportswear, according to Yangcheng Evening
News.
The weather report made its debut
last week with two young models in swimwear delivering the forecast for Poland
and Ukraine, just before the first game between Poland and Greece. Netizens
captured the 60-second clip, posted it on the Internet, and within minutes the
video went viral, sparking up an online storm.
Regular TV viewers and
football fans that have seen the weather girls have had mixed reactions towards
them.
"It's too much! You
must do things according to specific occasions and locations, and bikinis have
nothing to do with the weather. It's not a playground or a swimming pool!"
cried website editor Li Denghui.
But Wang Ming, who works at
a trading company, supported the bikini babes. "It was good. It goes well
with the football spirit." Zhou Xiaozheng, a sociologist at Renmin
University, also added that hosts should wear whatever they like. "Beach
volleyball players wear bikinis and they’re on TV. What's the big deal?"
One online survey by the
People's Daily showed that just less than half of its 6,940 poll respondents
thought that the model idea wasn't so hot. (China Daily)
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