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Olle Palmlöf was noticeably drunk during the Sports Gala’s after -talk and received a lot of criticism for his behavior.
Now host Carolina Klüft breaks the silence about the scandal in SVT.
– I was in my lodge and celebrated that we had made a good sports gala, she tells the Sports Bible.
On Monday, January 20, the Sports Gala was held in the Strawberry Arena in Solna. The artist Måns Zelmerlöw And former athletics star Carolina Klüft was the program manager for what came to be a great opportunity to pay tribute to Swedish Olympic heroes that Armand DuplantisThe Truls Möregårdh and Sarah Sjöström.
Palmlöfs drunk scandal in SVT
Much of the after -talk around the gala came to be about the “after -talk”. The TV profile Olle Palmlöf was a bypass to SVT’s Maria Wallberg That led it all. When the viewers returned to their little studio after the real gala was over, they saw a noticeably drunk Palmlöf who slipped, asked uncomfortable questions to the guests and flattened their eyes. The day after unpublished SVT the entire after -talk program and they distanced themselves from his actions.
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“SVT has zero tolerance for alcohol in the service. We take a serious look at the incident and have had conversations with the person concerned. SVT’s confidence in our audience is of utmost importance, and we therefore want to regret this. We also want to direct a special apology to the people interviewed in connection with this, ”wrote SVT’s program manager Christina Hill in a text message to Expressen.
Olle Palmlöf’s recognition
A couple of days after the gala was and the talk around Olle Palmlöf started silent a little, he recorded the podcast “Ekstedt Sport” together with the media profile Jesper Ekstedt And the sports journalist Mats Strandberg. Then the 52-year-old admitted that he had been drinking.
– I’ve probably felt better. I was at the gala yesterday. In the beginning it went well, then I drank wine and then it went a little worse, he said.
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In the same vein, he said he had gone underground for a couple of days to get away from people. His phone had been warm with conversations and mess that he did not answer. In any case, he realized that he had behaved badly.
– I should not drink, because if you do so in a broadcast, then you can’t do it. I shouldn’t do that, he said.
Carolina Klüft’s words about drama
Now one program manager at the Sports Gala, Carolina Klüft, comes with her first words about the event. She tells the Sports Bible that she did not witness it all when it happened because she had left.
– Should we talk about it now? It’s overplayed. No, but then, I wasn’t so … I didn’t see this. I had already stepped off and I was in my lodge. So I haven’t seen it. I have only read things afterwards and what is said is said, she says.
She continues:
– But I can’t say that I experienced that in place. Because I had stepped off and was in my lodge and also celebrated that we had done a good sports gala, so I didn’t experience it in any way when I was there.
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