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Meteorologist Liberte Chan Responds to Being Asked to Cover Up During Live Report: ‘I Really Wasn’t Offended’

They’re calling it #sweatergate. Los Angeles meteorologist Liberte Chan was asked to cover up during a live weather report on Saturday, May 14, and it caused a storm of controversy on social media, but the KTLA reporter assured fans that she wasn’t offended.

Chan was wearing a sequin Aidan Mattox black dress during her weather report on Saturday morning when news anchor Chris Burrous handed her a gray cardigan. “We’re getting emails,” he explained. 

Liberte Chan
Liberte Chan was asked to put on a sweater during her live weather report on Saturday, May 14, 2016.

“What’s going on? Why? Because it’s cold?” she replied as she donned the sweater, complaining, “I look like a librarian now.”

Several people took to Twitter claiming that Chan (who had changed out of a previous outfit because of trouble with the green screen that morning) had been publicly embarrassed and body-shamed. One commenter insisted it was a case of double standards, sharing a screen grab of a 2012 KTLA weather forecast that featured a male meteorologist with two models wearing skimpy lingerie.

Burrous apologized on Twitter, explaining that he offered up the sweater “in jest but I see how it seemed. I am sorry.”

https://twitter.com/mrmaxpower19k/status/731865845207433216

KTLA has no comment, but Chan addressed the awkward moment with fans on Facebook Live on Sunday, May 15, admitting, “It became this big thing.”

“I really wasn’t offended,” she said. “People are kind of spinning it and saying that it was sexist.… I thought it was kind of funny. I think we just played into the viewers saying, you know, you should cover up, so he brought me over a sweater. But not offended, I don’t think it was sexist, but that’s just my opinion.”

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