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Today show host Karl Stefanovic is slapped live on-air by a guest as he is forced to face his greatest fear
Today show star Karl Stefanovic didn't chicken out of an opportunity to confront a major personal fear on the Today show on Tuesday.
The Channel Nine star and his co-host, Sarah Abo, were joined in the studio by a woman named Kris Stanley and her bird Lemon Chicken, which had just been crowned ‘Australia’s happiest pet’. Stefanovic tried to patch things up with Lemon Chicken and agreed to let Krissy put the bird on his shoulder, which he failed to do without pulling a disgusted face. Shrinking away from the cute animal as co-host Lisa Wilkinson, 57, held it in her hands, he explained: 'I was savaged by a dachshund, or sausage dog as we used to call them, in Queensland when I was five'.
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