Sports Anchor Claims He Lost Job For Quoting Prince
TV sports anchor Dan Phillips apparently was fired from his job at Nashville’s WZTV Fox-17 after he tried to honor Prince by mixing the Purple One’s lyrics into a segment.
The segment was captioned on Facebook with, “A little tribute to my favorite musical artist. Enjoy. Or just laugh at the idiot making as many Prince references as he can in four minutes.” Phillips interweaves lyrics from “Let’s Go Crazy” to “When Doves Cry” to many other Prince favorites.
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