AN Australian TV host shocked viewers when he made a crude joke about the Queen.
Karl Stefanovic suggested the 95-year-old monarch might use her new walking stick as a weapon to “beat up” his colleague – before jumping on him “because she’s single now”.
Her Majesty was pictured with the cane while attending a service to honour the Royal British Legion yesterday.
Insiders say the walking aid was purely “for comfort” and not for any specific medical reason.
Newsreader Alex Cullen described how the Queen was using it at the Westminster Abbey ceremony while reporting the headlines.
In front of footage from the thanksgiving, he said: “She was using a cane. She’s 95.”
But Stefanovic butted in to quip: “She’d use it to beat you up.”
His co-presenter Allison Langdon chipped in: “She’d win too.”
Grinning, Cullen replied: “She would win. I’d let her win. She’s 95” before Stefanovic said: “Let her win – she’d smash you bro.”
But the joke didn’t stop there, as Alex continued: “She would smash me – and then jump on me.”
And Stefanovic shockingly said: “Oh, I suppose she is single.”
The Queen’s husband of 73 years Prince Philip died in April aged 99.
Stefanovic made the off-colour remarks during yesterday’s Aussie breakfast show, Today.
