Caroline Wilson reveals 'creepy' encounter with Don Burke at 1996 Logies
Respected sports journalist and commentator Caroline Wilson has revealed Don Burke once asked to lick her back while she was pregnant.
The Age's former chief football writer revealed the incident on Radio National on Wednesday morning. Numerous women have come forward to
accuse Burke of sexual harassment and inappropriate comments.
Speaking to Fairfax Media, Wilson said she was put on the same table as the
Burke's Backyard star for the 1996 Logie Awards.
"He seemed like a nice bloke," she said. "The awards ceremony started and I remember I was wearing a navy blue velvet maternity evening dress.
I turned around to look at the stage and I said to Don – because we'd been talking – 'Please excuse my back' because I was turning my back to him.
"He said,
'Not at all. Do you mind if I lick it?' "
Wilson said her husband was sitting next to her and heard what was said.
"It was gross," she said.
"I wasn't devastated or traumatised by it ... it's nothing compared to what he's allegedly done to some people. I didn't really talk much to him during the [rest of the] night.
"Obviously there were times as a woman in a man's world where things were said to me.
"But the only time I remember someone in the TV industry saying anything [that] gross to me was Don Burke."
Wilson's husband, Channel 7 reporter Brendan Donohoe, said he couldn't remember Burke's exact words but confirmed the incident took place.
