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RELIGION FILM HUMOUR POETRY CONTACT _________________________________________________ IN THE NEWS Religion correspondent Chuck Wineguard reports Jeb Flapmore, the famed Baptist preacher, is in hiding today after he accidentally revealed to a television audience of up to five million yesterday that he had worn a pair of panties belonging to his wife of thirty years, Gilda. A visibly embarrassed Rev. Flapmore, 57, made a hasty retreat from the studio, claiming that the interview had been "a set-up, a Goddam sham." The comments came about four minutes into his interview with anchor Harv Sanderson on the World Today program. Pressing him on the gay rights issue, Sanderson fired question after question at Flapmore, provoking increasingly intense responses, and eventually asking, "But doesn't every guy have his feminine side?", to which the by-now-irritated evangelist blurted out, "Well, sure, I've done the whole thing parading around in the wife's panties and that stuff." After the revelation was met with gasps and prolonged silence from a live audience, Flapmore laughed nervously and stammered, "Who hasn't at least once or twice?", at which point every hand in the studio was raised. When the host, with a knowing smile, confessed he had often wondered what the experience was like, and began coaxing Flapmore into giving further details, the rotund Reverend from Tennessee summoned his bodyguards to help winch him out of his chair, and fled the studio amid much consternation. The disgraced preacher later claimed he had actually said, "Well, sure I have never done the whole thing parading around in the wife's panties and stuff," and charged the World Today program with deliberately editing the episode to make him look bad. When a reporter pointed out the show was recorded live, Flapmore began slowly exiting the room backwards, saying, "I have to go now." According to his bodyguard and personal assistant, a muscular eighteen-year-old Flapmore brought back from a "missions trip" to Bangkok in 2001, the evangelist's wife will be not be commenting on the matter. __________________________
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