Australian radio host Dee Dee Dunleavy was left floored after receiving a hateful letter in the mail about her afternoon show.
Melbourne 3AW Afternoons host Dunleavy shared a photo of the cruel letter on Twitterwhich had been sent a week earlier about a now-finished radio competition.
The competition involved listeners calling in with a secret “codeword” or “password” which was said on-air in order to win cash prizes.
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And one particularly disgruntled listener seemed to think Dunleavy didn’t share the password enough times.
“Silly DD,” the expletive-ridden letter began. “What a stupid b—making people wait 2 ½ hours for the ‘password’ for the competition.”
“I had phone calls to make, work to do. You’re a bloody idiot. An ugly woman.”
The letter appeared to have been posted on the 28th of July, when the competition was still running.
But it appears it only made its way to Dunleavy this week, leaving her perplexed and offended.
“Seems it’s not just the ‘every child wins a prize’ generation that can’t hack not being a winner… it’s the snail-mailers too!” Dunleavy wrote, sharing the letter to Twitter.
Dunleavy’s followers were shocked by the hate mail and shared outraged comments on the social media site.
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“Imagine being mad about the timing of something and then complaining via snail mail,” one follower wrote.
“And posting it two weeks after the competition finished,” Dunleavy replied.
“But she had time to write a letter, and post it!” another incredulous follower said.
One follower even mused about the type of radio listener who would feel compelled to write such a letter.
“I’m thinking a pensioner (someone young wouldn’t write a letter, they would get on social media) and I’m being potentially controversial here but judging by the hand-writing – female,” he said.
Dunleavy responded: “Oooh. I was getting a male vibe.”
It’s not the first time the veteran journalist has been the victim of trolling, both online and via snail mail.
Dunleavy has been open about hateful messages she gets from commenters in the past.
In 2013, she wrote a message on Twitter about why trolls target people online.
“A troll is someone who wants you to feel, for a few seconds, as miserable as they do their entire existence,” she wrote.
9Honey has reached out to Dunleavy for a comment.
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