An eyebrow-raising video of an apparent sex act was just streamed on Shannon Sharpe's social media account on Wednesday ... but the Hall of Famer is insisting it was not his doing.
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00:00Alright, now moving along to another trending topic from Wednesday.
00:09This one happened a little bit earlier in the day.
00:11I'm talking about Shannon Sharpe and his accidental Instagram live session that he had that raised
00:18a ton of eyebrows because it involved him.
00:21Now you didn't see him doing anything, but it was clear he was in the middle of a little
00:26bit of personal time in the bedroom.
00:28Now Shannon initially said, I was hacked, that was not me, you know, said I don't have
00:34control of my account.
00:36But later on in the night, he went on his Nightcap podcast alongside his co-host, Chad
00:41Ochocinco Johnson, and he spilled the beans.
00:45He owned up to everything and he felt a lot of remorse for what happened.
00:50I'm embarrassed for a number of reasons.
00:53People count on Shannon.
00:56Shayshae Media Club, Shayshae Nightcap, ESPN, there are a lot of people that count on Shannon
01:01to be professional at all times.
01:03And I always try to be professional at all times, even when I'm behind closed doors.
01:09And after a while, Jamie Fritz, who's been my longtime marketing guy, he finally got
01:14through to me and he said, Shannon, you're on IG Live.
01:18I'm like, doing what?
01:19You know, what am I on IG Live for, I ain't hitting no IG Live button.
01:24He says, they can hear.
01:26I'm like, so now, Ocho, you know, I say ask for patience.
01:31He said they can hear.
01:32And now I'm starting to get agitated again, because you call me and say I'm on IG Live
01:37when I know I didn't click myself on IG Live.
01:39And you say they can hear me.
01:40I said, hear me doing what?
01:42He said, sounds like you were having sex.
01:46Man, my heart sank.
01:49It dropped.
01:50Shannon's grown.
01:51Yeah.
01:52Shannon's 56.
01:53Yeah.
01:55You'll get it in, y'all.
01:56See.
01:57But anyway, I'm just saying, Ocho.
01:58I'm just saying, Ocho.
01:59I'm just saying.
02:00I'm just saying, Ocho.
02:01It is what it is.
02:02Hey, listen.
02:03You talk about you was here when you was well.
02:05Ain't nothing wrong with you, boy.
02:07You talk about your hips.
02:08Ain't nothing wrong with your hips.
02:09I told you, ain't nothing slow about Uncle Buddy's walk.
02:13I can't move like I once could.
02:15Yes, sir.
02:16But the hip's good.
02:17The hip's solid.
02:18I'm just saying, I ain't never heard you talk like that.
02:21I ain't never heard you talk like that.
02:23Now, what we do got to work on is, ain't nothing wrong with your hips, you know, but we got
02:27to work on your cardio because you was breathing heavy.
02:30You shouldn't be breathing that heavy.
02:31You shouldn't be breathing that heavy.
02:32So, we got to work on your cardio.
02:34Well, they were able to laugh about it on Wednesday night and on Thursday morning, they
02:37got even more good news, or well, Shannon got more good news.
02:40ESPN is not going to punish him for it.
02:43Not that they really should, but Shannon was clearly embarrassed by it and he clearly thought
02:46that there might be some sort of fallout from this.
02:49But our sources over at the network say that it's no punishment.
02:51He was not on the air for first take on Thursday and he won't be on the air for first take
02:56on Friday, but he will be back on Monday.
02:59We were told that these are just days off, his regular days off.
03:01They weren't any sort of discipline or anything like that.
03:04So, while it was embarrassing and I'm sure scary and a little bit terrifying at first,
03:08it seems everything is under the bridge at this moment for Shannon.
03:12And rightfully so.
03:14Look, this wasn't even a mistake.
03:16He didn't mean for this to happen.
03:17It was a complete accident.
03:19As Shannon explained, look, I'm not the most tech-savvy person.
03:22I just put my phone on the bed and before you know it, I'm broadcasting my most intimate
03:27moments to thousands of people at once.
03:30He's like, I don't even know what Instagram Live is.
03:32I've never broadcast from that before.
03:35He did say, look, my assistant tried to cover things up by saying I was hacked and all that.
03:39But the best thing for him was to just be absolutely true about what happened.
03:43And he's like, look, I'm a healthy, full-grown adult.
03:47People do this.
03:48And ultimately, he did nothing wrong.
03:50So, good for Shannon.