Italian TV host Paola Ferrari has denied claims she was not wearing underwear while hosting EURO 2020 television coverage as a clip of her switching legs during the show went viral.
The 60-year-old TV personality, who presents for the Italian channel Rai, was wearing a long black dress. She was sitting with her legs crossed, but at one point, she shifted her legs, and some viewers claimed they saw she was not wearing underwear.
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The host said that she prefers to protect her health and hygiene, adding that nothing serious really happened.
While some social media users claimed they could see a butterfly tattoo in an intimate area, Ferrari joked that she does not have a butterfly tattoo, because she could not fly that high.
Notably, netizens have compared Ferrari to Sharon Stone in the 1991 film Basic Instinct, which includes a somewhat similar scene, where the actress uncrosses her legs to reveal she is not wearing underwear.
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