Liberté Chan is no stranger to putting some effort into her clothing choices during her weather reports on KTLA. The black beaded dress you see above highlighted Saturday morning’s broadcast and she’s had many more over the years.
Cool, cloudy and wet, but I couldn't stop myself from wearing this @ktlamorningnews @adriannapapell @pistolandstamen pic.twitter.com/uwOV3LsIWN
— Liberté Chan (@libertechan) May 7, 2016
But the black dress seems to have caused quite a stir with the viewers of KTLA 5 on Saturday morning, causing many to email their complaints into the show and causing this to happen in the middle of the weather report:
Awkwardness ensued, at least for some, and it would seem that it outraged more people instead of calming viewers who were upset over the dress in the first place. Some took to Twitter, like Heather Poole below, giving a sort of live tweet play-by-play of what was happening during the broadcast:
They made her put on a grey cardigan sweater – ON AIR. After they told her nobody likes her dress – ON AIR @KTLA pic.twitter.com/w5HCiKPxvO
— @Heather_Poole (@Heather_Poole) May 14, 2016
In the middle of a weather report they handed her a cardigan sweater and told her to put it on. She didn't know what to say.
— @Heather_Poole (@Heather_Poole) May 14, 2016
She handled it well. She was at a loss for words. She put on the sweater & mentioned another dress that didn't fit. Then she moved on. @KTLA
— @Heather_Poole (@Heather_Poole) May 14, 2016
They're trying to make things right, but it's only getting worse. She's about to cry as she holds up another dress pic.twitter.com/xjIHUo9gtD
— @Heather_Poole (@Heather_Poole) May 14, 2016
Then she apologized for wearing the dress! She apologized for making viewers upset. Oh my God this hurts to watch. @KTLA
— @Heather_Poole (@Heather_Poole) May 14, 2016
Now they're trying to brush it off by saying something about opening the lines of communication and comparing it to a therapy session @KTLA
— @Heather_Poole (@Heather_Poole) May 14, 2016
In the history of news, has a man been asked to change clothes – ON AIR – because viewers were unhappy with what he was wearing? @KTLA
— @Heather_Poole (@Heather_Poole) May 14, 2016
Ummm @KTLA just told this woman to put on a sweater LIVE ON AIR bc they "are getting a lot of emails". 😳😳😳 #icant pic.twitter.com/8YCIu4PFJ7
— Megan McGrath (@meg_mcgrath) May 14, 2016
Now despite all of this, it would seem that the news team at KTLA was taking it in stride. Chan even posted this live video to her KTLA FB page, showing just how many people emailed in to complain about the dress AND to complain about forcing her to cover up with the grey sweater.
Chan explained a bit on Facebook about the incident and even dropping a joke apology for disparaging librarians with her covered look:
The dress keyed out https://t.co/RuLKv3wRTT
— Liberté Chan (@libertechan) May 14, 2016
Apologies! Didn't mean to offend 🙈😕 https://t.co/AtA3x7R2Kx
— Liberté Chan (@libertechan) May 14, 2016
For what it is worth, Chan’s dress and the librarian look were very nice. The idea that people emailed a morning news cast over a dress during the weather report is proof that people have too much time on their hands.
And after it all, it’s far from the funniest dress mishap she has had on the air. It’s almost like you can see her veins in some sort of weather x-ray machine, which is probably weird to say but we just spent all this time talking about a weather lady’s dress. Imagine if these KTLA folks had to deal with Yanet Garcia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THUhCrPFALk