Kevin Hart Pokes Fun At NBC For Mistakenly Using His Photo In Usain Bolt Report
Left image via Petr Toman / Shutterstock.com, right image via Michele Eve Sandberg / Shutterstock.com
Kevin Hart has called out NBC News after the media station ran an article about Olympic medallist Usain Bolt testing positive for coronavirus and incorrectly featured a photo of Hart.
Hart said the mixup was “disrespectful on so many levels.”
“I must have gotten really fast and tall overnight,” Hart joked on Instagram. “I want to take advantage of this moment and race anybody in the world.”
It would be difficult to mistake the comedian from the champion sprinter; whose height is a towering six feet and five inches.
The apology, which was displayed at the bottom of the updated NBC News article, blamed a “technical error” for the blunder. “A previous version of this article included an incorrect photo on some platforms due to a technical problem,” the apology read. “The photo depicted actor Kevin Hart. It has been replaced with a photo of Usain Bolt.”
In a separate explanation on its Facebook page, the network cited its content management system for being behind the error. “A social image was not selected, and the system reverted to an image of Hart from an unrelated video,” the post read. “The display image has been corrected.”
[via Los Angeles Times, opening image via Petr Toman / Shutterstock.com, Michele Eve Sandberg / Shutterstock.com]
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