Channel Nine star Tony Jones brands Indian legend Virat Kohli 'nothing but a bully' after airport incident
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Channel Nine sport newsreader Tony Jones has slammed Virat Kohli, calling him 'nothing but a bully' after the Indian legend was involved in a tense altercation with reporters at Melbourne airport. On Saturday, Kohli, 36, lashed out at camera crews outside the arrivals lounge at Melbourne airport as he arrived for the Boxing Day Test.
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Turning to one film crew, he indicated that he objected to cameras directed at his family. 'With my kids I need some privacy, you can't film without asking me,' the former India captain was overheard saying. Explaining the situation further, 7News reporter Theo Doropoulos said: 'It was upon seeing the waiting cameras that Kohli became a little heated over what is largely a misunderstanding when he thought the media was filming him with his children.'.
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Both Channel 7 and Channel 9 have said that at no stage were Kohli's children filmed during the family's arrival. Tony Jones has weighed in on Virat Kohli’s confrontation with the media at Melbourne Airport. Virat Kohli was involved in a heated altercation with reporters after he arrived in Melbourne.
Jones, whose colleague Nat Yoannidis was at the airport, objected to the behaviour of the Indian superstar. 'It was a pretty unsavoury incident I've got to say,' Jones said on 3AW. 'Nat was out there with a cameraman, a Channel 7 reporter was out there with his cameraman and they were doing what we do on a daily basis essentially, and that's be at the airport to actually get identities, whether they're politicians, whether they're sporting identities or whatever.
