'ALL BEHIND ME NOW'
Commonwealth Games bum-flashing dancer Georgia Lear laughs off wardrobe malfunction as clip goes viral
The 19-year-old said: 'Yes it was me!!! I was feeling really BUMMED... BUTT that’s all BEHIND me now'
THE dancer who flashed her backside to 1.5BILLION people watching the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony has taken a cheeky dig at trolls.
Plucky 19-year-old Georgia Lear has been targeted by spiteful comments on social media, but she told her Instagram followers "it's all BEHIND me now!"
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The hilarious comeback came after the dancer was ducking under a towel during the opening ceremony display, at the very second a camera zoomed in on her exposed backside.
Brisbane teen Lear said: "Last night I was feeling really BUMMED... BUTT that’s all BEHIND me now!
"I hope you all had a CRACKing good time watching the ceremony. Don’t forget the camera adds 5kgs... yes it was me!!!!"
Lear was dancing to Ricki Lee’s song Technicolour at Wednesday’s showpiece celebration, when she ducked under a towel to run to the other side of the stadium.
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Caught in a moment of “really, really bad luck”, as Georgia put it, a camera was right there to film and then broadcast her bare bum to a quarter of the world.
She admits she knew she had “a bit of a wedgie” when she was performing, but it wasn’t until she came off stage and saw a meme of herself that she realised what had happened.
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She told that there was only one way to handle it.
Georgia said: “I’m laughing it off. At first it was pretty humiliating but it could’ve happened to anyone else. You’ve gotta brush it off."
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TV viewers noticed the brief camera shot and, before people had even started to leave the Carrara Stadium on the Gold Cost, hundreds had posted the moment across social media.
Georgia had become an internet sensation — but it wasn’t the sort of social media fame most teens aspire to.
Twitter users called her impromptu loss of dignity a "#a**gate" and "a cracker of a show."
"Gidday and welcome to the Gold Coast," one user wrote above a screen gran of the video.
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Luckily Georgia has taken the mishap in good humour.
She said: "The first meme I saw some man had commented saying it made him want to gouge his eyes out, so that wasn’t very nice to read."
Nasty comments aside, Georgia has decided to take the situation in her stride.
She added: "My parents have always taught me that everything happens for a reason so what can you do, everyone’s seen it now so there’s no point hiding and having a cry, you just have to make the most of a bad moment you know?
"Obviously seeing your bum in front of 1.5billion people isn’t too nice but everyone’s been really supportive and seen the funny side of it, which is nice."
Georgia's social media accounts show she also teaches dance classes at a local school.
According to a friend she is an "extremely talented and professional dancer."
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