French ice dancer suffers Olympics wardrobe malfunction on live tv
The first notes of Ed Sheeran's Shape Of You had just played when Gabriella Papadakis suddenly became aware that people were about to see a whole lot more of her shape than she had planned.
The French ice dancer's glittering emerald costume at the Olympics had come unhooked at the neckline and later in the routine her left breast was exposed live on television.
When the clasp became unhooked, 22-year-old Papadakis was more worried about holding up her outfit than making sure her twizzles and rhumba were in sync.
Her swinging short programme with partner Guillaume Cizeron at the Pyeongchang Olympics was threatening to go down in history alongside Janet Jackson's infamous wardrobe malfunction during her halftime performance at the Super Bowl.
"I felt it right away and I prayed," Papadakis said. "That's about what I could do."
Somehow, the French couple kept things together for most of their Latin programme, producing a score of 81.93 points which left them second behind Canadian stars Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir.
But it was during the final element, when Papadakis leaned back in Cizeron's arms, that her costume rode up to reveal her breast.
The performance was being shown live on...
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