This happened when the host, while speaking with ESPN’s Buffalo Bills reporter, Marcel Louis-Jacques, said, during the morning toast (The conversation was about what level on the toaster everyone on the show set for their morning toast): “I have them to the attractiveness of women that I find to be attractive.
I will never go to a Serena Williams level. But I’m very comfortable with a Halle Berry level.” Louis-Jacques tweeted the clip and Rob said: “There’s already an unfortunate and undeserved stigma attached to dark skin – so for Rob to take something undesirable like burnt toast and compare it to the skin color of any person is reprehensible and feeds into that stigma.”
He has completed the virtual Grand Slam, which consists in winning four consecutive Slams not in the same calendar year, twice (in the two years 2002-2003 and 2014-2015). She can also boast five year-end Master Cups and 19 Premier category tournaments (6 Premier Mandatory, 6 Premier 5 and 7 Premier), as well as 21 Tier I and Tier II titles and a gold medal won at the London Olympics in 2012.
Earning almost $29 million in prize money and endorsements, Williams was the highest paid female athlete in 2016. She repeated this feat in 2017 when she was the only woman on Forbes’ list of the 100 highest paid athletes with $27 million in prize money and endorsements. In December 2015, she was named Sportsperson of the Year by Sports Illustrated magazine.
