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David Muir Ditches Clothes Pins After ‘Narcissistic’ Roast

The ABC news anchor appears to have seen all the criticism over his attempts to tailor his jacket while covering the L.A. fires.

David Muir appears to have learned his lesson after social media commentators torched the ABC News anchor’s attempts to tailor his fire jacket for a broadcast covering the ongoing L.A. fires.

Muir was ripped as “narcissistic” on Wednesday after eagle-eyed viewers spotted clothes pins behind the anchor, giving his jacket a more svelte fit. The tailoring trick is frequently used among live TV professionals to improve ill-fitting clothes. However, the thought put into his jacket seemed out of place amid the broadcast’s solemn tone—according to some commentators.

Conservative podcaster Megyn Kelly piled on and dissed the anchor’s look as “abject vanity.”

Although Muir has not directly addressed the blowback to his fire coverage fit, he seems to have gotten the message. On Thursday, the anchor sported a noticeably looser jacket on-air.

ABC Insiders told the New York Post that they were “embarrassed and horrified” by the gaffe.

A source told the paper, “It’s pathetic. All flexed muscles and posing. He’s actually ‘Zoolander’ meets ‘Anchorman.’ He forgets he is the face of ABC News, not Abercrombie & Fitch!”

What’s more, social media commentators have also noticed the adjustment during his latest broadcast on Thursday.

“+10 people perished, and this is what you focus on,” wrote one commentator.

Another added, “It appears the wooden clothes-pins David Muir tucked his fire jacket with always to have been lost in the fires too.”

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