Shock twist in Erin Molan racism case as it's revealed Nine boss urged the radio star to apologise for her 'hooka looka mooka hooka fooka' remark - and why she didn't want to say 'sorry'

A Nine Entertainment boss urged Erin Molan apologise after she said 'hooka looka mooka hooka fooka' in a radio broadcast which allegedly referred to Pacific Islander footballers. 

Molan made the comment during a segment on the Nine-owned 2GB's Continuous Call Team rugby league program last year. 

The radio and television star is suing Daily Mail Australia in the Federal Court over an article and two tweets in which she alleges the publisher accused her of being racist.  

Molan told the court on Tuesday that Nine Radio's head of content Greg Byrnes called her suggesting she should apologise after a 'firestorm' which followed publication of her 'hooka looka' comment.

She denied resisting that suggestion but said she was not keen to use the word 'sorry' because she did not believe she had done anything wrong.

 A Nine Entertainment boss suggested Erin Molan apologise after she said 'hooka looka mooka hooka fooka' in a radio broadcast allegedly referring to Pacific Islander footballers

Erin Molan allegedly mocked the names of Pacific Islander NRL players live on 2GB radio as part of The Continuous Call Team. She is pictured with the show's current host Mark Levy

Molan had been worried saying sorry might appear to be making an admission of guilt.

Instead, she chose to apologise for any 'hurt and offence' caused by the way Daily Mail Australia had reported her 'hooka looka mooka hooka fooka' remark.

'I would not apologise for something I haven't done,' Molan said. 

The court heard Nine's head of publicity Amanda Poulos emailed director of communications Victoria Buchan and PR agent Jason Evans the day the story appeared.

'Erin doesn't want to put an apology out, as she told Jason that last time she did that fat comments she was slammed,' Ms Poulos wrote. 

Molan denied Mr Byrnes or anyone else at Nine had ever told her the 'hooka looka' comment was inappropriate.

The court heard Nine's director of sport Brent Williams had sent an email to Ms Buchan referring to both Molan's comment and a story told by fellow Continuous Call Team member Darryl Brohman a year earlier.

An emotional Erin Molan has denied saying 'hooka looka mooka hooka fooka' during a rugby league radio program was meant to mock Pacific Islander footballers. Stock image

'In my opinion Darryl Brohman's bit from 2019 is every bit as inappropriate as Erin's one from the weekend,' Mr Williams wrote. 

Ms Buchan responded: 'Yes, I agree.' 

Molan said her bosses at Nine had only ever been supportive in the wake of her comments and the backlash from the Daily Mail Australia publications. 

'I can assure you not one person in a senior position at Nine or 2GB made clear to me at all that they thought my comments were inappropriate,' she told the court. 

Molan had described her 'hooka looka' comments in a tweet as 'clumsy and inappropriate' but said she believed Nine Radio's managing director Tom Malone had inserted 'inappropriate' in that statement. 

Daily Mail Australia has sought to establish Molan regularly mocked people of various backgrounds on air by adopting foreign accents, which she denies. 

Barrister Bruce McClintock SC, for the publisher, played Molan a series of audio clips aired between 2017 and 2019 which featured the 38-year-old using various accents. 

In one segment from April 1 2017 Molan attempted a Chinese accent at the urging of then host Ray Hadley.

'Herro, I wery goo looking',' she began. 'I wuv you wery long tiyme, wery handsome man, ohhh, you like to walk with me in a circle.' 

Molan denied she had been attempting to imitate a Chinese prostitute, saying instead she was quoting from a movie she had not seen and could not name. 

She later accepted the film was Vietnam war classic Full Metal Jacket, which featured a scene in which a prostitute solicited a customer in a bar. 

Molan also denied she was mocking the way Chinese people supposedly speak. 

'To mock is to do something in a cruel way,' Molan said. 'I've never done anything in a cruel way in my life. 

Molan denied putting on the accent was an 'ugly racial stereotype', a 'quite horrifyingly racial thing' and a 'despicable act of casual racism'.

Molan alleges Daily Mail Australia additionally defamed her by claiming she refused to apologise for deliberately mocking Pacific Islander names with her 'hooka looka' comment

'It would never come to my mind that an Asian person or an Asian woman or a Chinese woman is a prostitute,' she said. 

'If any Chinese person approaches me and says they were hurt or offended by anything I have ever said or done I will be the first to apologise to them and to anyone else.' 

She repeatedly denied mocking Pacific Islander players' names and said people had often made fun of hers, calling her 'Moley, Moley, Moley'. 

Mr McClintock also played a segment from March 17, 2018 in which Molan used a 'Japanese' accent to say 'oh yor soh goo' and 'you like raw feesh?' before jokingly asking 'was that racist?'

Molan said 'raw feesh' was not a sexual reference and related to sushi, which she ate most days. A mention of 'mini spring rolls' had been a reference to Brohman's penis.  

When discussing a trip she and fellow presenter Darryl Brohman took to Bali, Molan put on an 'Indonesian' accent to describe being approached at the beach by local women offering massages.

'Ohhh loo big Aussie mahn, we charge four time amountttt,' she said. 'Yore big whyte Aussie mahn. You sucka'.

Molan denied any of those accents or comments were racist but said the Continuous Call Team program was sometimes politically incorrect.

'We push boundaries a lot,' she said.

Mr McClintock said the Continuous Call Team regularly engaged in casual racism, citing Molan laughing 'hysterically' at Brohman's accents. Molan denied it.

Molan said she in fact often tried to pull panellists up if she thought someone was going too far but stopped short of agreeing she was the show's 'moral guardian' or 'PC policeman'.

'I think it's very obvious from the clips that I'm not a PC policeman,' she said. 

'I wouldn't call myself the conscience of the of the program.'

Molan said the show's humour was 'self-deprecating' but if times had changed and putting on foreign accents was no longer acceptable, 'I'm prepared to have that discussion'.

'The world is changing very quickly and if there are suddenly things we cannot do, that's fine. I'm open to that.' 

Molan wept as she said after publication of reaction to her 'hooka looka' comment she had suffered a barrage of social media abuse. 

Molan told the court that after reading the story on June 5 about reactions to her 'hooka looka' comment she had been distressed. 'I felt sick, I felt angry, I was very upset.' she said. 'It was saying that I had deliberately mocked the pronunciation of Polynesian names'

'I had received multiple death threats to me and my daughter,' she said. 'Threats to harm me, threats to attack me at rugby league games.

'I was scared. I had stopped going out, I had stopped taking my daughter to the park and going for walks. I was inconsolable.

'I was worried that people had read the articles and the stories and would think that I was a racist. And I was worried that people might berate me in the street.

'I felt sick all the time. I would get very anxious before NRL broadcasts because I was worried that a Polynesian player might say something to me on air or refuse to speak to me.

'It was probably the lowest that I'd been and probably have ever been.' 

Molan said she had retreated to her parents' home outside Canberra and spent two nights there before she was picked up by 'my partner of the time'.

Homicide detective Sean Ogilvy is the father of Molan's three-year-old daughter Eliza and the couple became engaged in 2017. 

Molan said the accusations of racism had changed her forever. 

'I'm different,' she said. 'I won't recover until this is over and even then I'm not sure I will ever really recover.'

Molan has previously told the court her 'hooka looka' comment came after program host Mark Levy referred to father and son commentators Ray and Chris Warren calling an upcoming rugby league game.  

Molan interjected by twice saying 'Dad!' in a voice she told the court was meant to sound like Chris Warren, then said 'hooka looka mooka hooka fooka'.

She thought her fellow panellists would immediately understand her remarks were a reference to a story told previously by Darryl Brohman, including on April 5.

That day Brohman had been recreating a debate between Ray and Chris Warren over how to pronounce the name of Haumole Olakau'atu, a Manly forward of Tongan decent.

Brohman took on the voice roles of both Warrens as he told the story. 

'His name had about 30 letters in it and I had trouble pronouncing it so I asked Chris "How do you pronounce this bloke's name?"' Brohman said.

'He said, "Well dad and I have been discussing this today... and dad thought his name was Chuka-lala-lulu.

'And I said, 'Well, dad, I think it's Chuka-lala-lulu-lulu, and he says, "Chris, that's incorrect - it's Chukaka-lulalulalo".'

 Molan is part of the Nine Network's rugby league coverage and co-hosts the 2Day FM Morning Crew with Dave Hughes and Ed Kavalee. She is pictured working for Nine

Molan says she was the subject of a social media frenzy after the publication of a Daily Mail Australia article about her 'hooka looka mooka hooka fooka ' comments 

Molan told the court after Levy referred to Ray and Chris Warren calling a game on May 30 she had exclaimed, 'Dad, Dad', before saying 'hooka looka mooka hooka fooka'.

She had not been able to recall the name Brohman had used in the Warren story, 'So I just used a name that I'd made up on the spot there.' 

Molan said the words she used did not resemble the name of any player in the NRL and she had expected her fellow panellists to understand she was referring to the Warren story. 

'To me it had been a very obvious reference but clearly not so much to my colleagues,' she said. 

Molan denied the voice she adopted was meant to sound Polynesian. 'That was Chris and Ray Warren's voice,' Molan told the court. 

The comment had not been intended to mock Pacific Islanders and Molan had not thought either Brohman's story about the Warrens or what she said was offensive.

'It was poking fun at a father and a son trying to get a name right,' she said. 

Molan alleges Daily Mail Australia portrayed her as 'a racist' and an 'arrogant woman of white privilege' who refused to apologise for deliberately mocking Pacific Islander names. Molan is pictured with her father, Senator Jim Molan

Barrister Kieran Smark SC said his client's comments had been taken 'completely out of context' and distorted to make it seem she was mocking Islander names.

Mr Smark said Brohman had also told the Warren story on October 5, 2019 and April 12 last year, it was well known to Continuous Call Team listeners and Molan's response to it was not part of an 'inside joke'. 

Daily Mail Australia published its first story about the 'hooka looka' remark on June 4 last year but that article is not the subject of the court action. 

Molan alleges the publication defamed her in a follow-up story published on June 5 and two tweets published on June 5 and 6 by accusing her among other things of being a racist.

She told the court that after reading the story on June 5 about reactions to her 'hooka looka' comment she had been distressed.

'I felt sick, I felt angry, I was very upset.' she said. 'It was saying that I had deliberately mocked the pronunciation of Polynesian names.'

Barrister Kieran Smark SC said Molan had been attacked by strangers on social media platforms including one user who called her a 'racist entitled mutt'

On June 10 last year Molan posted a tweet denying she mocked any Polynesian player's name, and that she never refused to apologise. Daily Mail Australia argues both statements are incorrect

The 38-year-old also alleges she was portrayed as being so callous that having deliberately mocked the names of Pacific Islanders on air, she then refused to apologise. 

Molan, who joined the Continuous Call Team about 2015,  told the court using accents had been a 'large part of the show for many, many years'.

'If it had been brought to my attention that one person had ever been hurt or offended by what I said, even if I didn't agree it was offensive, I would never do it again,' she said on Tuesday. 

Mr Smark told the Federal Court the Continuous Call Team was a live, light-hearted, irreverent, unscripted and sometimes 'silly' show.

'What has happened was taken completely out of context and distorted by the Daily Mail and what that in turn did was set running a social media frenzy,' Mr Smark said.

Molan had subsequently been the subject of what she called a 'barrage of abuse' on social media platforms. One user called her a 'racist entitled mutt'.

Mr Smark said Molan had apologised on 2GB on the afternoon of June 5 in case anyone had been offended by her 'innocuous' remark, which she had described as 'clumsy and inappropriate'.

Both Nine Entertainment, owner of 2GB, and Molan herself said her 'hooka looka' comment was referencing a story fellow broadcaster Darryl Brohman told on air on April 5 last year

Molan alleges Daily Mail Australia portrayed her as 'a racist' and an 'arrogant woman of white privilege' who refused to apologise for deliberately mocking Islander names.

The publication in its defence argued these imputations were substantially true, and that her conduct on air was 'objectively racist'.

Daily Mail Australia in its defence argues the Continuous Call Team program 'frequently engaged in discussions containing racist content'.

'On occasions this included the mocking of ethnic, particularly Pacific Islander and Maori names,' its defence statement reads.

Molan claims the June 5 article also portrayed her as 'so disrespectful and incompetent that she is unfit to be an NRL commentator'.

She alleges the article and tweets left her 'gravely injured in her character and in her personal and professional reputation'.

Molan, who left the Continuous Call Team last year, is part of the Nine Network's rugby league coverage and co-hosts the 2Day FM Morning Crew with Dave Hughes and Ed Kavalee.

Examples of Erin Molan's alleged racist conduct on radio cited by Daily Mail Australia 

Molan alleges Daily Mail Australia portrayed her as 'a racist', which the publication in its defence argued was substantially true.

The document filed with the Federal Court on Monday cited more than 20 instances of Molan engaging in racist behaviour on the show in 2017 to 2020.

March 18, 2017

Ray Hadley: You know what you haven't done for a long time. You haven't done all your accents. Have you done for Erin your accents?

Erin Molan: Yeah, show me, show me.

Darryl Brohman: American How you doin? Sexy lady.

Ray Hadley: Now your Chinese one.

Darryl Brohman: Chinese Ho herroo... Erin Molan and others

Ray Hadley: Japanese? Japanese please. 

Darryl Brohman: Ha oh double herroo… others

Ray Hadley: It's the same.

Darryl Brohman: Indian No, thank you very much. others

Erin Molan: Someone will write in now and say we're being racist. I think it's hilarious.

April 1, 2017

Ray Hadley: And now, why don't we have a conversation with Darryl doing his Chinese and Erin doing her Chinese. God you're so good looking.

Erin Molan: Herro, I wery goo looking in Chinese . 

Ray Hadley: Just do one for me 'I love you long time', just do that for me.

Erin Molan: I wuv you wery long tiyme, wery handsome man, ohhh, you like to walk with me in a circle. in Chinese Erin Molan and others I don't know what that means.

May 13, 2017

Erin Molan: Bunt-ay….Bunty….

Darryl Brohman: Why are you saying Bunt-ay?

Erin Molan: I'm just trying to think if he had a different last name.

Darryl Brohman: His last name's Afoa, it's not Bunt-ay.

Erin Molan: Yeah I know but I'm just thinking of different last names it might be funny. I wasn't gonna share them I was just thinking in my head. Erin Molan Sorry. Back to you….Buntay…. Is it Buntay or Bunty?

July 1, 2017

Mark Levy: Mate I went up on Parramatta road yesterday. I said to the Indian bloke, I said 'Ched…wash me car, don't take me money'. Others

Erin Molan: You can't say that.

Mark Levy: What do you mean I can't say it? He was an Indian bloke. Erin Molan

Bob Fulton: What did he say to you? What did he say? We need an accent here. Erin Molan and others

Erin Molan: That's where you'll get in trouble. Erin Molan and others

April 19, 2017

In a discussion of the popularity of the Fijian name 'Nakubuwai', Molan suddenly started singing 1961 song The Lion Sleeps Tonight.

September 2, 2017

While discussing six members of the same family playing for the Highlanders rugby team in New Zealand.

Erin Molan: I think you look like a great group of men. Erin Molan

Darryl Brohman: Also got a lovely bunch of coconuts in Erin Molan and others

Erin Molan: A lovely bu… Erin Molan Is that racist?

Darryl Brohman: No.

Erin Molan: Oh Erin Molan .

Darryl Brohman: It's a song, you idiot. I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts. Erin Molan .

Bob Fulton: I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts Others sing with . Erin Molan and others

Erin Molan: I thought you meant 'cause there were Islanders there. Erin Molan and others

March 17, 2018

Erin Molan: Oh yor soh goo Asian Erin Molan and others  

Erin Molan: You like raw feesh… Asian Erin Molan and others Sorry, was that racist?

Bob Fulton: Yeah…it wasn't good.

April 7, 2018 

Darryl Brohman: But you'd think one of them would say Jamaican 'Hey mahn, this is a long way. We're at the Gold Coast mahn.' Erin Molan

Erin Molan: Where's Sanka mahn… Erin Molan

Darryl Brohman: 'Where ya going mahn? You're going the wrong way mahn?' Erin Molan and others

Erin Molan: 'Turn left Sanka' Jamaican

Bob Fulton: I think it was a ladies' volleyball team, so they wouldn't be going Jamaican 'Hey mahn'

Erin Molan: Jamaican Hey mahn! Hey mahn!

Darryl Brohman: You don't think the Western Indian ladies talk like that? Course they do.

Erin Molan: Dalte…dalte….datcho… No that's Indian Erin Molan

Darryl Brohman: They don't say bro.

Erin Molan: 'I think we gonna miss our beach volleyball, bro.' Jamaican Churrr. Like a tiger. Erin Molan and others

August 18, 2018

Erin Molan: American Hello, hello y'all, hello. Hello and welcome to Channel Nine Football right here on Channel Nine. It's Saturday night everybody. Get your party hats on ye-haw. Asian Like a tyga. Like a tyga

Bob Fulton: What? You've gone Indian?

Erin Molan: Asian I like your hair

Bob Fulton: We've got an American Indian. Erin Molan and others

Mark Levy: stereotypical native American war

Erin Molan: I don't know what's PC or not anymore. I can't laugh. Erin Molan

Mark Levy: Stuff the PC brigade. That's what we're saying. Erin Molan

August 18, 2018

Ray Warren: Corey Harawira-Naera, Darryl, will start at block with Kaide Ellis joining the bench in 18. So luckily you don't have to call that one…

Darryl Brohman: I might have a drink with him tonight. G'day Corey Harawira-Naera. Well that's how I will be talking by the end of the night Corey Harawira-Naera mock slurring of .

Erin Molan: Erin Molan and others Rrrrr….

September 8, 2018

During a discussion on pronouncing Maori names, with many instances of the hosts making allegedly crude jokes about them: 

Erin Molan: It's Foo-seh-too-a-ya-ya-ya. 

...

Darryl Brohman: So what about his surname, what do you call him, Kata or Katar. 

Erin Molan: Qatar is a city in the middle east. 

Ray Hadley: It's Kwi-tar. Erin Molan

Erin Molan: Same difference.

May 18, 2019

Discussing a trip she and Brohman took to Bali, Molan put on an 'Indonesian' accent to describe being approached at the beach by local women offering massages.

Darryl Brohman: 'Haaa I got the saucy guy so goo, so big' in Asian Erin Molan and others . 

Erin Molan: Ray, I've been at the beach with Big Marn when they've approached and it was more like 'ohhh loo big Aussie mahn, we charge four time amountttt'. in Asian Erin Molan and others

Ray Hadley: I know what you would have said 'hey girls, we want 8 of you over here, one start that end, the other start this end', 'we found one over here', 'this will be a all-dayer' Erin Molan and others

Darryl Brohman: Not necessarily. Erin Molan and others . As soon as I got there Ray it was like a moth to the plague wasn't it.

Erin Molan: It's because 'yore big whyte Aussie mahn. You sucka'. in Asian

July 13, 2019

Darryl Brohman: I say… 'Dat fity dolla, you like, like free bowl with it, that fityfive. Fityfive dolla.' Asian

Erin Molan: Erin Molan It's not free. If it's 55, it's not free.

Darryl Brohman: They won't know! They're putting it on a credit card. Erin Molan and others

Bob Fulton: That's fraud! Erin Molan and others

Darryl Brohman: 'Dat fityfive dolla, fityfive dolla if you want special.'

August 10, 2019

Darryl Brohman: I can do Chinese Survivor.

Erin Molan: Go do it then Erin Molan

Mark Levy: Go on, Chinese….come on.

Darryl Brohman: Oriental music playing in 'Pwevioshly on Shurvivor…Chinese Shurvivor….' Chinese Erin Molan Ah cookie boy… Look at dis guy… Look at dis Chinese Erin Molan and others

Mark Levy: You've got to speak Chinese! Not a cross!

Erin Molan: Ching-hao Chinese Erin Molan and others

Darryl Brohman: Look at dis bloke… You gotta climb dat pole…he can't get up that pole. It's a gweasy pole. He can't get up, he's a big fatty…should be doing some westling. Chinese Erin Molan

Bob Fulton: Hey cookie boy others .

Erin Molan: What about Indian Survivor?

Darryl Brohman: Ooh, thank you very much. Indian Erin Molan and others

August 24, 2019

Darryl Brohman: Gonna put a big nappy on so I look like a sumo and say 'come and get it! Big Marn's Chinese Cookbook!' 

Ris is your cookbook…. Rou Ranna Row How to Cook stuff….Get this crookbook Chinese Erin Molan and others  

... 

Bob Fulton: What about…. Special fwi wice… Chinese Erin Molan and others  

Darryl Brohman: Wong-tong? Wong-tong? Wong-tong, gong-kong and pork-kong? Chinese Others  

 ...

Erin Molan: Now we're all talking like Ohhh…you no….bad boy….you naughty….dwop your pen Erin Molan …..pick up your chopstick Asian  

... 

Darryl Brohman: Well mine's gonna be MSG free because I don't know what it is.

Erin Molan: No but you don't want that. That's the only thing that makes it taste like takeaway Chinese is the MSG in it. 

I can tell your cookbook ain't gonna go well if it's got no MSG. MSG's what makes it taste good. That's the goodness of the takeaway.

October 5, 2019

Ray Hadley:  I ran into Chris Warren during the week... he was practising the names for the women's premiership grand final tomorrow, Darryl, that he'll be calling.

Darryl Brohman: Mate… because… they get him on….I think Middo tells Rabs and then Rabs tells Chris, then they have correspondence between each other….

'Dad, how do you spell Cooka-ducka-dacka-do? I mean, how do you say it dad?' Erin Molan

'Well, Middo told me it's cooka-toka-tonka-loss'

'Well I don't think it is dad. I think it's cooka-toka-lucka-loo' Erin Molan and others

'Let me check with Middo. Goodbye'

Darryl Brohman: 'David. Rabs Warren. Can you tell me how to pronounce this gentleman, number 16 in the program. The Big League program that is.'

'That's Cooka-tacka-tacka-li' Erin Molan

'No it's not it's Cooka-tacka-tacka-lee' Erin Molan

Darryl Brohman: 'Well my son Chris say's it's Cooka-tucka-luck. Which one do you think we should go with? David?' Erin Molan

'I don't know Rabs. What do you want to go with?' Erin Molan

'I'm going Cooka-tucka-lacka-lacka-lee' Erin Molan  

Erin Molan: Tooka-looka-… Erin Molan and others

April 5, 2020

When Daily Mail Australia asked Molan about her 'hooka looka' outburst, she said she was referencing this broadcast.

Brohman told an exaggerated story about a debate between father and son commentators, Ray and Chris Warren.

The pair were debating how to pronounce the name of reserve Manly forward of Tongan decent, Haumole Olakau'atu.

Darryl Brohman: He had a name with about 30 letters in it, and I had trouble pronouncing it and I said to Chris 'Mate, how do you pronounce this bloke's name?'

He said, 'Well Dad and I have been discussing this today because Dad's down about in his luxurious box a little bit down the road…'

I said, 'Well what happened?'

He said 'Well dad thought his name was Chooka-lucka-loo-loo, but I said no, no, no, Dad, I think it's Chooka-lucka-loo-loo-loo-loo' Erin Molan and others

He says, 'Chris, that's incorrect. It's Chooka-kaloola-loolalo' Erin Molan and others

He says, 'Well, I'm not so sure Dad. The way I look at its Chooka-kalala-looliew' Erin Molan and others

I said, 'Well, it's a hell of a predicament we've got ourselves in here.' Erin Molan and others

He says, 'I'll just go check with Dad again'.

'Dad?'

'Yes Chris?'

'Is it Chooka-kalooloo-laloo?' Erin Molan and others

He said, 'No. It's Chooka-kaloola-looloo-loola' Erin Molan and others . So I'm going with that today Big Marn.'

He said, 'okay what's name? Let's just call him Sebby…' Erin Molan and others

This story was repeated in a shorter form on April 12, 2020, and Molan joined in saying: 'What was the name again? Pooka-pocka-pooka-pa?'

April 12, 2020

Erin Molan: Hey, Rabs, last week, Big Marn told a very funny story about you and Chris and an interaction you had when you both called from the same ground. 

Darryl has been known to exaggerate a little bit so what I'd love now, if this is okay with you, Levy, as the host, is for Darryl to retell that story and Rabs you to tell us afterwards the level of accuracy from 0 to 10. Would that be okay?

Ray Warren: Whatever you want, Erin.

The April 5 story was then retold in much the same way as the original

Later on April 12, 2020

Darryl Brohman: When you go to a service station, are you like me, do you go to that service station all the time through thick and thin?

Mark Levy: Yep. Solid as a rock.

Darryl Brohman: I do as well. I even know the bloke there now, he's a beautiful bloke. He's Indian. But he's a really good bloke.

Erin Molan: Is there only one?

Darryl Brohman: I said 'how are you going mate?' He said 'oh, very good thank you very much' Indian

Erin Molan: Oh, Darryl. Erin Molan You can't…

Darryl Brohman: That's how he talks.

Mark Levy: I'm very loyal to my service station as well. And yes, Darryl, my service station attendant is Indian and he thinks my name is Russell.

Erin Molan: Can I just ask everyone how do you know they're Indian?

Mark Levy: Because I've had a conversation with him…

Erin Molan: He could be Pakistani….

Mark Levy: No, he's Indian.

Darryl Brohman: There's a difference. Erin Molan

Erin Molan: I know there's a difference. 

 

Both Nine Entertainment, owner of 2GB, and Molan herself said her 'hooka looka' comment was referencing a story fellow broadcaster Darryl Brohman told on air on April 5 last year. Molan is pictured with fellow Nine commentators Wally Lewis and Darren Lockyer