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Channel 5 Amanda Knox

The Wright Stuff refuses to apologise for asking 'Foxy Knoxy: Would Ya?'

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By The Drum Team, Editorial

October 5, 2011 | 1 min read

Channel 5 talk show The Wright Stuff has refused to apologise for running a debate asking ‘Foxy Knoxy: Would Ya?’.

Presenter Matthew Wright sparked criticism when he asked viewers to tell the show if they would be willing to take Amanda Knox home if they had met her in a bar, following her acquittal of the murder of Meredith Kercher.

Wright described Knox as being as ‘Foxy as hell’, and defended himself against criticism afterwards, stating: “I thought it would be interesting to find out if mud sticks, or whether an innocent young woman could now go out and behave in a perfectly normal way.”

A spokesperson for the programme told The Daily Mail: “The discussion conducted between Matthew Wright and our panel of Kelly Hoppen, Christopher Biggins and Liz McClarnon was handled extremely sensitively and at no point did we lose sight of the fact that at the heart of the matter is the tragic death of a young girl - Meredith Kercher.”

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