It was a bizarre weekend for Todd McKenney in more ways than one. Just a week after it was revealed that he was charged with drug possession, the Sunday Telegraph reports today that Channel 9 have pulled $1million worth of advertising from the radio station that employs McKenney, Mix 106.5, after Todd repeatedly made jokes about Channel 9 newsreader Mark Ferguson.
“After the week he’s had, you might have thought Todd McKenney had better things to do than criticise his Channel Seven opposition for sending its newsreader on a visit to a needy western Sydney school,” Nine CEO David Gyngell told the Sunday Telegraph. “Here’s McKenney, with a few much-publicsed problems of his own, going out of his way to bag Nine repeatedly.”
It comes just as McKenney gave a bizarre performance by pretending to pass out on stage during the Adelaide Police Tattoo on the weekend. During the show’s dress rehearsal, McKenney was midway through ‘I Go To Rio’ when he dropped to the ground. “I’m feeling tired,” McKenney said, “I think I might have a lie down.”
School students watching the dress rehearsal laughed and clapped as McKenney fell dramatically to the ground. His agent has denied that McKenney was making light of the pretty serious police allegations against him.
