Domonique Foxworth couldn’t help himself from referencing the NSFW Instagram Live video that emerged on social media from fellow ESPN on-air host Shannon Sharpe.
The topic du jour was Bryce Young after the Panthers benched the second-year quarterback this week.
“If you give me three months, Stephen A., and my hips hold up, I might play two or three games at tight end for him,” Sharpe said on “First Take.”
“I think your hips are fine,” Foxworth, a former NFL cornerback who played for the Broncos, Ravens and Falcons, said under his breath.
Foxworth highlighted his banter on social media, saying, “I mean…I had to, right?”
Sharpe quickly chuckled at the joke as the discussion continued on Young.
He initially attempted to deny that the Instagram Live video of him having sex with a mystery woman, saying that his Instagram was actually hacked.
“Beware my @shannonsharpe84 Instagram was hacked this morning, my team and I are working vigorously to figure this out — UNC,” he wrote in a since-deleted post on Instagram.
Sharpe later admitted that the live feed was indeed of him in the midst of some intimate acts with an unknown woman.
As his “Nightcap” podcast co-cohost Chad Johnson joked about the situation, Sharpe was mostly apologetic.
“Obviously, I am embarrassed. Someone that is extremely, extremely private and to have one of your most intimate details – the audio – heard for the entire world to hear, I’m embarrassed for a number of reasons,” Sharpe contritely said during an emergency episode of the popular podcast.
Just because Sharpe wasn’t cracking jokes doesn’t mean other media members weren’t, though.
Former ESPN star Michelle Beadle poked fun at the situation after Johnson suggested the woman in the video’s name was Michelle.
“It was not me,” Beadle wrote on X, adding a smiley-face emoji.
ESPN did not punish Sharpe, who was in his regular duties for the network this week.
