Brazil: calls for TV tycoon to be pulled off air after offensive remarks to singer
(The Guardian Brazil)

Viewers demand Silvio Santos be removed after telling Claudia Leitte he couldn´t hug her because it would make him `excited´He is one of South America´s most powerful TV tycoons, an 87-year-old media mogul who has for decades been a fixture on Brazilian screens.But many viewers are now demanding that Silvio Santos, the celebrity owner of Brazil´s SBT network, be pulled off the air after he made the latest in a series of improper and offensive remarks to a guest. Related: `Stop this disaster`: Brazilian women mobilise against `misogynist` far-right Bolsonaro Related: Bolsonaro`s pledge to return Brazil to past alarms survivors of dictatorship Continue reading...