Liz Ellis has laughed off an ABC comedy skit featuring a victim who says he had group sex with her and the Australian netball team.
The champion netballer said she was not personally offended by the Hungry Beast sketch, despite Netball Australia condemning the controversial joke.
"She knows it was a joke and can see the funny side of it — she doesn't feel defamed at all," Ellis' spokesperson Jessica Ball told ninemsn.
"She is out on the golf course playing a round right now, which shows how concerned she is about this," Ms Ball said.
The Hungry Beast sketch is a send-up of the famous Four Corners interview with the woman at the centre of the Cronulla Sharks scandal.
The new comedy show screened a teaser of the sketch on Wednesday night showing the man, shot in shadow, pretending to break down in tears.
"At first it was just me and Liz Ellis and that was fine, but then one by one they all appeared and they all started clapping and cheering her on … and they each tried a weird position," he says in the sketch.
The interviewer says: "What kind of weird position?"
"Wing defence, centre … goal attack," he replies, before apologising for crying.
Earlier today Netball Australia chief Kate Palmer criticised the sketch, saying the satire "missed the mark" was in poor taste and had the potential to damage Ellis' reputation and also other members in the Australian netball team.
"We do not find the humour in the skit and see it as an indictment on the ABC for making light of the very serious issue of sexual assault," the Daily Telegraph quoted Ms Palmer as saying.
A statement released by the ABC said the one-off sketch was never intended to harm or offend anyone.
"The short satirical piece attempted to demonstrate the absurdity of the notion that Australian netballers could be accused of the sex scandals that have plagued the NRL this year.," the statement read.
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