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MOST READ: Amstel has become the latest sponsor to drop Podcast and Chill after hosts MacG and Sol Phenduka made offensive remarks about the LGBTQI community. This week, the show was once more thrust into the spotlight after Jub Jub, and MacG made lewd comments about Amanda du Pont and Kelly Khumalo - here's everything that happened.

GRAYE MORKEL, LOCAL NEWS EDITOR

Amstel has withdrawn its sponsorship of the YouTube series Podcast and Chill following offensive comments by hosts MacG (Macgyver Mukwevho) and Sol Phenduka on a recent episode.
 

MacG and Sol made grossly offensive remarks about a transgender woman during the episode
 

Sharing a statement with Channel24, Amstel said: "The Amstel brand, locally and globally, is centred around friendship and inclusion of all people, regardless of gender, race or sexual orientation, without discrimination, and we distance ourselves from any transphobic and homophobic views. We have officially parted ways with Podcast and Chill with MacG and will no longer be a partner as of 1 December 2021."
 

Studio 88 and Old Mutual withdrew their sponsorship earlier this year, citing the show's "harmful and offensive" commentary about the LGBTQI+ community.


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