Julia Morris exposes disturbing interview where she was groped on live TV a week after suffering miscarriage: 'You didn't have a voice'

Daily Mail​

5 days ago

Julia Morris has opened up about a shocking incident that occurred in 2005 when a rock singer groped her during a live interview at the Eurovision Song Contest.
The veteran presenter, 57, shared footage to social media of the disturbing incident, which saw Norwegian rocker Åge Sten 'Glam' Nilsen touch and kiss her without permission during an interview.
The footage, filmed backstage in Kyiv while she was hosting Eurovision coverage for the BBC, shows Glam, from the metal band Wig Wam, entering the frame with a lit cigarette, before climbing on top of Morris as she sits on a couch.
'Oh my God, what a lovely surprise!' Morris said in her signature upbeat tone as Glam proceeded to straddle her and cradle her face.
The situation escalated as Glam kissed her on the cheek, put his arm around her, stroked her leg and, at one point, touched her chest - all while she remained visibly composed.
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Morris captioned the footage with some shocking words: 'Eurovision 2005, Kyiv. BBC. What a treat to turn up to work and be touched and disrespected by an all time f***wit.
'Looking like I'm having fun is part of my job, but my not flinching is how common this behaviour was. I had a miscarriage the week before this, so being SA'd [sexually assaulted] live on tele was all I needed.'
She later told News.com.au that she felt she had to maintain an upbeat demeanour as part of her presenter role during the shocking incident.
'What's really spooky is, I don't even flinch. I suppose as a stand-up comedian, reading a room and adjusting is [the role]. I mean, what was I supposed to do?' Morris said.
She added that she was going through a particularly difficult time during the incident which left her feeling vulnerable.
'I was trying to make sure my pad didn't move, because I had a miscarriage the week before,' she said.
'I had to have a massive f***ing pad. I mean, enormous.
'And so, when old mate jumped on top of me, all I was thinking was, "My god, he's going to squeeze it [the pad] out the back." And all the while he is touching up my t*ts... And I was getting in trouble from the producers.'
She said there was now more awareness about how unacceptable this kind of behaviour was following the #MeToo movement, but revealed that back then it was not acceptable to speak out.
'You didn't have a voice. You certainly don't have a choice of "Don't speak to me like that",' she explained.
''A lot of young people now are like, "We're the first to speak up about this." And it's like, "No, we all tried, we just got fired".'
Daily Mail has approached Nilsen for comment.
In 2022, Glam's band Wig Wam reflected on the incident on Facebook, and wrote how 'safe' their singer had made Morris feel.
Alongside a photo of Glam touching Morris' leg, the band wrote some revealing words: 'The first time Wig Wam was interviewed on BBC the singer was brought back to London for an interview about the interview...
'This time the host was safer than Julia Morris was in Kyiv 2005.'
Many of Morris' celebrity friends took to the comments section to share their shock over the footage.
'Absolutely gobsmacked,' wrote fellow presenter Ricki-Lee Coulter.