Kate Abdo’s boxing trainer boyfriend breaks silence on ‘obnoxious’ Jamie Carragher’s awkward joke about her being ‘not loyal’ live on TV – and threatens to ‘show up physically’ after pundit ‘irritated’ her

Kate Abdo’s partner Malik Scott has broken his silence on Jamie Carragher’s comments about the CBS Sports host not being ‘loyal’ for two weeks.

The pair were involved in an awkward altercation during the broadcaster’s Champions League coverage, with Carragher’s joke missing the point.

During news coverage the next evening, Abdo responded to the comment – ​​and the accompanying online furore – by brutally putting down the expert in her witty opening monologue.

Now Scott himself has broken his silence, saying the Liverpool legend’s first comment ‘really affected him’.

“It’s not that she’s one of the best sports broadcasters, she’s one of the best people I’ve ever met in this life,” Scott said. Lord Ping.

“I’m very much in love with her and I plan on marrying her so what happened with Jamie is part of the job but it’s not the first time he’s said something like that but it’s the The first time that he said something about potentially disrupting a household or disrupting the chemistry between couples.”

‘It was a very small thing, but the fact that she was a bit irritated by it is what really affected me. I didn’t mind the fact that he just said it and was that guy who always makes jokes about you. It’s only bad when Kate is angry.

‘When Kate gets angry I think it’s really bad and I call him and if he doesn’t answer my call I physically show up so we can talk like men so that’s not something you should keep doing.

‘But I think Jamie has apologized, not just to Kate, but to the team, and one thing you can’t do is hit a man who admits he was wrong. I have a lot of respect for him in that respect.’

The moment in question came after Arsenal’s match with Porto, when the former Liverpool defender donned an Arsenal shirt that Bukayo Saka had requested in his post-match interview, after Richards had worn the shirt earlier in the evening.

Carragher then suggested that Henry and Abdo should be next to wear the Arsenal shirt on air, prompting a bizarre comment from the former Liverpool defender.

“You (Henry) can wear it next and for the last part (of the show) you (Abdo) have to wear it,” he told his colleagues.

“No, I’m loyal,” Abdo quickly replied, before adding: “Manchester United, thank you very much,” when Carragher asked who she was loyal to.

“You are not loyal to Malik,” the former Liverpool defender fired back, referring to Abdo’s friend Scott.

The joke seemed to go down like the proverbial lead balloon with the CBS host, who responded, “What? How can you even say that?’, as Henry and Richards smiled awkwardly.

Carragher then tried to explain the comment, noting that Scott “hasn’t had a mention on the show tonight.”

The Liverpool legend suggested Abdo was ‘disloyal’ to her boyfriend Malik Scott

“The only problem I have with this kind of thing is that if Kate feels one way or another about it, she’s handled it very well.

“I thought Jamie was just being himself, sometimes he has a running mouth, sometimes he’s not very good at reading the room, sometimes he’s someone who can make more than sarcastic jokes and it comes across as a bit of a dig, especially when you’ when you’re dealing with a woman.

‘But I don’t take it personally, it didn’t come into our house, it was really nothing, but in those situations I’m more concerned with Kate and her feelings, she’s someone I’m very much in love with. so once I saw how she was dealing with it, she and I discussed it, and that was that.

‘It wasn’t something that kept me up every night because I found that the way Kate dealt with it was very, very good, and Jamie was just Jamie and I have no problems with him. As long as Kate is happy, I have no problem. If he upsets Kate, I’ll have a serious problem and he’ll get a call from me, and if he doesn’t answer my call, I’ll physically appear before him.”

Scott also suggested that the pundit was sometimes unable to read the room, but reserved praise for his co-host Micah Richards.

“Jamie Carragher’s – what’s that word – obnoxiousness and his lack of knowledge of how to read the room works sometimes, but that time it just didn’t work,” Deotany Wilder’s trainer added.

‘But sometimes it works and it becomes a good joke, then someone else on the panel plays it out and it comes across well on camera. But that wasn’t a good Jamie, so you really have to watch it from now on because as soon as Kate gets annoyed, I get annoyed and I feel like showing up.”

‘Kate is surrounded by good men in her line of work, when it comes to banter they go back and forth a lot and the show gets incredible numbers not just for covering an incredible sport but for the chemistry those guys share on the television. panel together.

Abdo made her relationship with Scott public on social media in early March, after months of speculation

“But when that chemistry is disrupted by someone jokingly attacking a woman and her relationship, it can seem a little rude, a little obnoxious, and certainly a little disrespectful. to that lady and her partner.

“Jamie’s joke wasn’t taken lightly, Kate was annoyed so that obviously makes me annoyed, but any man who apologizes to whoever he came across, you can’t be too hard on him. If he hadn’t apologized and just said, “I said what I said, and then some,” that would have been a big deal. I would have taken flight because Kate is my wife and wouldn’t allow her to be disrespected.”

“Me and Micah (Richards) we’ve spoken on FaceTime, on the phone and on Instagram, he’s probably my favorite on the show. What energy that guy has. Jamie isn’t bad at all to me, apart from the incident that happened, and Thierry (Henry) is a legend. I’m always learning and what I admire about Thierry is his ability to break down plays and it reminds me of the film study I do in boxing.

“Kate is as gifted in broadcasting as Michael Jordan is in basketball. She has worked extremely hard to get into this position, she takes nothing for granted.”