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Yumi Stynes admits: Real reason I cancelled on Studio 10

She's speaking out about Kerri-Anne Kennerley's racist views.
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After Kerri-Anne Kennerley and TV personality Yumi Stynes made headlines after they angrily fought over the vexed issues of Australia Day and racism – both parties tried to defend their views.

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KAK was outraged that she was labelled a “racist”, while Yumi compared the TV icon to a cockroach.

Now the former VJ is talking about her reasoning for walking out of Studio 10.

ICYMI: WATCH the explosive fight from the Channel 10 program below!

Speaking to her fans on her KIIS FM show The 3pm Pick Up, she said, “I was all set to go in, and then (on Monday) night I was just reflecting on the people they had booked to come and talk, most of whom were quite right wing, and I just felt like I would have been, by going along to that, I would have been walking into a trap.”  

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She also spoke to Kyle and Jackie O on their KIIS FM radio show to address the controversy.

“She’s been around forever. She’s like a cockroach, she can’t be extinguished. I mean she’s invincible; she’s an Aussie TV legend,” she said.

Addressing the fight, she remarked, “It sounds more scary when you read it in the paper later; it sounds more intense and personal than when you’re face-to-face.”

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Kyle Sandilands decided to get Kennerley involved.

KAK said on-air, “I am still deeply offended by being called a racist, which is completely untrue.”  

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