fox sports australia will not take action against a freelance presenter who posted an instagram picture of herself and a friend in blackface make up briony ingerson posted the image from an 'african themed party' almost three months ago, writing that the costume was as a light hearted tribute to a friend who was working on network ten program 'i'm a celebrity  get me out of here!' i'm a celebrityget me out of here! aired on network ten and involved more than a dozen identities camping under the stars in south africa's kruger national park she used the hashtag #ihopethiscomesoff alongside the photo of herself painted in black, seemingly oblivious that people would take offence from her costume it has since emerged that on april 11, fox sports australia posted an image of a man dressed in blackface, as part of a competition which asked viewers to dress up as their favourite sports star sports presenter briony ingerson has been widely criticised for posting a photo with black face make up  on tuesday the photo made headlines and ingerson responded with a message on twitter, insisting she had not meant to be offensive  the issue was flagged by journalism student ahmed yussuf who complained about the photo he interned alongside ingerson  fox sports australia tweeted a photo of a man in black face on april 11, before the controversy surrounding briony ingerson began it's understood the tweet was later deleted  'no harm intended, just wanted to give our hardworking friend a giggle,' ingerson wrote on instagram on tuesday the photo made headlines and ingerson responded with a message on twitter, insisting she had not meant any harm 'sorry if you're upset by this, no harm was intended, it was an african themed party #notatallracist,' she wrote a fox sports spokeswoman told aap that they had only become aware of the photograph on monday and it was unacceptable 'she (briony ingerson) is deeply upset that she has offended people in the community as this was not her intent,' the fox sports spokewoman said 'she is aware of how offensive and inappropriate her actions were 'fox sports is satisfied that briony is apologetic and will be making no further comment on the matter' ingerson is a freelance sports journalist who specialises in motorsports she has presented for fox sports australia as well as on 7mate, network ten and sbs a fox sports spokeswoman told aap that they had only become aware of briony ingerson's photograph on monday and the company know it was unacceptable  jet james called for fox sports australia to make an example of the melbourne based freelance presenter and terminate her employment with the company  john patten was another member of the public who felt strongly about the presenter's 'ignorant' actions  the matter came to light after fairfax reported a complaint from latrobe university journalism student ahmed yussuf, who worked as an intern alongside ingerson 'v hurt to see briony ingerson do #blackface feel disgusted and disappointed, especially having worked with her #racism is not okay,' yussef tweeted yussuf told fairfax that at first he tried to ignore the photo but finally felt as though he had to speak out 'it's very difficult to say something about someone who could possibly be a contact in the future but i thought someone should say something,' he said 'it was there for weeks and no one said anything' yussef says that ingerson has now blocked him on twitter following the widespread media response briony ingerson explained that she was going to an african themed party and is '#notracistatall' ben williams pointed out that ingerson should have been aware of how wrong her actions were  'i read the comments between her friends and herself and it seemed very off putting having blackface on in an africa themed costume party as if being black is something to be put on and taken off' the photo has sparked outrage, with members of the public taking to social media to condemn her 'ignorant' actions 'far too many australians are either openly or incredibly naively racist times like this i'm ashamed of my country,' tweeted tom read 'it shouldn't take 11 weeks before something like this gets picked up i wonder how many people saw it & thought it was ok?' 'i really don't understand how this still happens in australia in 2015, especially after the hey hey incident in 2009,' ben williams wrote on twitter '@foxsportsaus   sack the girl and set an example will you! @brionyingerson   serious misjudgement and just disgusting,' jet james wrote 'so a tv 'personality' wears #blackface and is ignorant enough to attempt to justify it only in aus! sacked her yet @foxsportsaus?' posted john patten
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