Handicapper Weary Willie Jimmy Stewart has been sacked from her young task as a betting analyst for ESPN because of homophobic tweets she made ix years ago.
Known past her Twitter grip “Kelly inward Vegas,” the Kansas indigene was hired past the spreader inwards too soon May as an psychoanalyst on Daily Wager and other ESPN sports betting platforms. She was to scratch line her unexampled role sometime this month.
But Princess Grace of Monaco took to Twitter over the weekend to sustain the news and excuse for the “unacceptable and hurtful” linguistic communication she used nearly a decade ago, and to partially turn away the rap onto Twitter trolls.
Anti-Gay Slurs
“ESPN has notified me they terminated my undertake due to deleted tweets from 2012,” she wrote. “I know the words I used were unaccepted and hurtful and I am awfully sorry for this lapse inwards judgment, but I cannot apologise for standing upward to the vicious attacks I, and so many other female person personalities, endure from online trolls.”
Screenshots feature since emerged showing IV tweets posted by Jimmy Stewart from Mar through and through July 2012, which repetition the same anti-gay slur.
yeah, but today my timeline is good of f*gs trying 2 say I’m fake. It’s so funny to me. Keep taking with your 17 followers,” reads one.
Three of these tweets seem to live responses to online abuse. Another is non so clear. In it, she laments that baseball game pitcherful Cliff Lighthorse Harry Lee “decided” to make a unspoilt gritty and ends with the slur used as a hashtag. However, we aren’t party to the message she’s responding to.
‘Misogynistic Attacks’
“I don’t regret standing upwardly for myself against vile, threatening, and misogynistic attacks from men who were threatened past a woman daring to create a living inward the irresistibly manly sports play industry,” Stewart continued.
“I believed i had to standstill upwardly for myself inwards parliamentary procedure to piddle it inward this industry and I responded to their threats of violence and sexist insults with the most powerful speech I could consider to use.
A decade later, I want i hadn’t made the decision to respond to their oil of vitriol with my own, but I cannot alter my past,” she added.
Stewart is a contributor to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the Bleacher Report, and Wager Talk. She first-class honours degree came to the attention of the Las Vegas sports betting domain inwards 2012 when she smasher a three-team money-line parlay.
She offers a placeholder betting table service via her website kellyinvegas.com, which allows residents of other states to participate sports betting contests in Nevada.
In 2014, Stewart won the “Mini-Contest” at Westgate’s SuperContest, the famous NFL handicapping challenge.