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Cheerleaders pose in front of a big screen displaying baseball fans cheering from their homes during the opening game of South Korea's new baseball season between the SK Wyverns and Hanwha Eagles at Munhak Baseball Stadium in Incheon on May 5, 2020. - South Korea's professional sport returned to action on May 5 after the coronavirus shutdown with the opening of a new baseball season, while football and golf will soon follow suit in a ray of hope for suspended competitions worldwide. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP) (Photo by JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images)
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HYOGO, JAPAN - APRIL 22: Kimie Bessho, 73, the table tennis Paralympian, is photographed in Hyogo, Japan, on Apr 22, 2021. Bessho is known as the butterfly lady as she wears colorful clips in her hair.
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TOKYO, JAPAN - JANUARY 22: People wearing face masks walk past the Olympic Rings on January 22, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. With just six months to go until the start of the Games, it has been reported that the Japanese authorities have privately concluded that the Olympics could not proceed due to the ongoing Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. Spokesmen from the IOC and Japanese government have since rejected the report. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)
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Olympic Rings are seen near the National Stadium, the main venue for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, in Tokyo on January 8, 2021, as Tokyo Olympics organisers insisted that the coronavirus-postponed Games will still go ahead despite Japan declaring a state of emergency less than 200 days before the opening ceremony. (Photo by Behrouz MEHRI / AFP) (Photo by BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP via Getty Images)
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Spectators walk into Melbourne Park ahead of the first round matches at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Monday, Feb. 8, 2021.(AP Photo/Andy Brownbill)
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FILE - In this Dec. 1, 2020, file photo, a man wearing a protective face mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus walks with the Olympic rings in the background in the Odaiba section in Tokyo. Opposition to the Tokyo Olympics is growing with calls for a cancellation as virus cases rise in Japan. The International Olympic Committee and local organizers have already said another postponement is impossible, leaving cancellation, or going ahead, as the only options. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)
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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 01: Sofia Kenin of the United States poses with the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup after her Women's Singles?Final match against Garbine Muguruza of Spain> on day thirteen of the 2020 Australian Open at Melbourne Park on February 01, 2020 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Cameron Spencer/Getty Images)
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An unidentified tennis player exercises in her hotel room in Melbourne in January 17, 2021, where players are quarantining for two weeks ahead of the Australian Open tennis tournament. (Photo by William WEST / AFP) (Photo by WILLIAM WEST/AFP via Getty Images)
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Fox Sports anchor Matty Johns has apologized for a “completely inappropriate” joke after a TV segment featuring a photoshopped cardboard cutout of Adolf Hitler was aired on one of the broadcaster’s Australian National Rugby League shows.

The incident came after cardboard cutouts of convicted British serial killer Harold Shipman and Dominic Cummings, the much-criticized adviser to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, appeared in the stands at Australian NRL matches.

The “Fan in the Stand” promotion allows supporters to pay 22 Australian dollars (about $15) to have life-size cutouts of images they upload placed in seats around the stadium at games. It’s designed to help fans stay connected to their teams while matches go on behind closed doors due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Fox Sports called the sketch featuring Hitler “tasteless and offensive” and said it is “very concerned by an incident involving an inappropriate image shown as part of a segment discussing NRL crowd cutouts.”

“We sincerely apologize for the offence the image has caused,” the network added in a statement.

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Fans can pay to have cardboard cutouts of themselves places around NRL grounds.
Fans can pay to have cardboard cutouts of themselves places around NRL grounds.
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Johns, a former NRL player and host of the Sunday night show the sketch aired on, said: “The segment on my Fox League show on Sunday in which we showed an image of Hitler in crowd cutouts was in poor taste and completely inappropriate.

“I know Fox Sports has apologized but I need to personally step up to this. I know how raw and devastating those events remain for so many people and families. I acknowledge it was wrong and I apologize to our viewers and to everyone in the community who is rightly concerned and offended by the segment.

“I’ve reached out and spoken directly to Vic Alhadeff at the Jewish Board of Deputies this morning to apologize to the Jewish community and I’ll be apologizing on air to all our viewers on Thursday night’s show.”

The NRL says it is “reviewing the vetting process” after the images of Shipman and Cummings slipped through. Around 4,000 fans have so far paid for their cardboard cutouts to be placed in the stands.

“The weekend was a trial run and trials are designed to iron out issues,” the NRL said in a statement to The Guardian.

Alex Ryvchin, the co-CEO of The Executive Council of Australian Jewry, tweeted: “This sort of stupidity, the casualisation of Hitler, Nazis, and by extension their crimes, is what leads to swastikas being graffitied throughout our cities and school kids being harassed with gas chamber jokes.”

Ryvchin said both Fox and Johns have been in touch and offered an apology.